For the MVI Over 34 million Americans have diabetes and face its devastating and serious complications, which include heart disease, stroke, amputation, end-stage kidney disease, blindness and death. ...

Eugene “Gene” E. Urbanski, 85, passed away peacefully surrounded by family on Aug. 2, 2021. Gene was born Aug. 19, 1935, to Clarence and Helen Dworek Urbanski and was the youngest of six children. Gen...

Robert K. “Bob” Lusk , 81, of Charleroi went to be with his Lord and Savior Monday, Aug. 2, 2021. He was born April 16, 1940, the son of Dorothy Morrison Byers and Kenneth “Dutch” Lusk. He was raised ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Community collaboration is key for a local Catholic parish’s summer festival. After taking a year off due to coronavirus pandemic restrictions, the Saints Joachim and ...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com The Mon Valley Rowing Club is looking for new recruits. The club was brought to the Mon Valley by Nathanael Stevens nearly three years ago, but it took awhile to get...

By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com It may have been much smaller in scale last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but attendees to this year’s Washington County Agricultural Fair will be happy...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Rostraver Township Commissioners tonight are expected to take up the issue of banning parking on Municipal Drive and Beazell Road. The commissioners are als...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Punishers Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club Fort Pitt Chapter is hosting its first motorcycle run this Saturday to raise funds for the Forward Township Volunt...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Two men are charged with homicide in cases that remain under seal, but will be made public in preliminary hearings set for Monday in Washington County Court. The ...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com After five years at the helm, Laura Grimm is moving on from the Ringgold athletic department. Grimm was hired Monday as the new assistant athletic director at Beth...

  Bruce A. Bevan, 70, of Monongahela, formerly of Donora, died Monday, Aug. 2, 2021 at Faidley House, Carroll Township. Born Feb. 27, 1951, in New Orleans, La., he was the son of the late John M. Jr. ...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com After falling behind early, Elite Physical Therapy showed its mettle and roared back to beat Campy’s Pizza and advance to the Mon Valley Independent Summer Basketb...

  Dennis Jack Whitehead, 76, of California, Pa., died unexpectedly Monday, Aug. 2, 2021. He was born Saturday, July 21, 1945, in Leechburg, the son of the late Kenneth Whitehead and Arlene Jack Dovens...

Janice M. Hruby Reed, 60, of Monessen, died Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021, after a lengthy illness. Born in Washington, Pa., on Nov. 29, 1960, she was the daughter of the late William V. and Dolores L. Nogy Hr...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com Top-seeded BeeGraphix withstood a late rally by No. 4 Howard Hanna Wilson Baum to capture a 76-72 victory in a Mon Valley Independent Summer Basketball League semifi...

Catherine Ann Piscitelli, 89, of Monongahela, Gallatin, died unexpectedly Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021, at Jefferson Hospital. She was born May 21, 1932, in Gallatin, the daughter of Patsy and Minnie Milano ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A young girl who ran away from a summer youth program at the Mon Valley YMCA was only missing for a short time Monday thanks to the efforts of area first responders. M...

Elizabeth “Betty” Prosser, 89, of McKeesport, died July 30, 2021, at UPMC Mc-Keesport Hospital. Born Nov. 30, 1931, in Pittsburgh, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Mary Anna Levendosky Mura...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The 2019 audit of Monessen’s finances is complete and it doesn’t point to the type of widespread financial mismanagement that has been alleged by some council mem...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com AMD Industries will get a chance to defend its Mon Valley Independent Summer Basketball League championship after a semifinal win over Dax Thomas State Farm Monday...