By ADAM BREWER MVI Sports Sometimes experience just matters and will conquer all, especially when it comes to the state girls basketball playoffs. The senior-laden Chartiers Valley team showcased thei...

By CHRIS HARLAN Trib Total Media Aliquippa is headed to Hershey for the second time in three months, chasing after a rare football-basketball double state championship. Sophomore point guard Quentin G...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Saturday was all about good vibes for Jeanne Berger and a group of her longtime friends and several family members. A group of 12 or so people who adore Jeanne, her da...

John Yevcinez, 93, of Monongahela (Carroll Township), entered into eternal rest—Here I am Lord —on March 17, 2022, in his home. Born Feb. 2, 1929, in Monongahela, he was the son of the late Metro and ...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com A North Belle Vernon native will have the opportunity to play for a PIHL Division 2 title this week. Michael Parzynski II is a junior defenseman for the Bishop Canev...

Most times angels fly away on their own; but on rare occasions they travel in pairs. On March 14, 2022, Laverne “Joy” Hopkins (Gossie) passed away in Marco Island, Fla., joining her husband, Don Hopki...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com More than 100 students from 14 area high schools got a chance to be “Senator for a Day” during a recent event sponsored by Sen. Pat Stefano earlier this month. Stefa...

By Ryan Deto Trib Total Media If the sight of over $4.30 a gallon for regular gasoline is cringeworthy, imagine $5.50 — or more — and having to fill a 150-gallon. Rising gas prices have been causing h...

On March 8, 2022, loving husband and father Don Hopkins, 85, passed away in Marco Island, Fla. Don was born in Monessen in 1936. He attended Charleroi High School and shortly thereafter Don married th...

Patricia R. Palfey, 70, of West Newton, died Thursday, March 17, 2022. She was born Dec. 29, 1951, daughter of the late Upton and Helen (Robinson) Smith. Prior to retirement, she was employed by Fabco...

By JIM BUSCH For the MVI The South Allegheny School Board last week approved filling a number of professional staff positions for the district’s elementary, and secondary summer programs. The elementa...

For the MVI State. Sen. Camera Bartolotta, R-Carroll Township, together with The City Mission, Southwestern Pennsylvania Legal Aid, and the Washington County Bar Association will host a free clinic, “...

Margaret Ann “Peggy” Foster, 67, of Charleroi went with the Lord on Friday, March 18, 2022, six years after her diagnosis of multiple myeloma. Born Jan. 5, 1955, she was the daughter of James P. and E...

By John Rectenwald jrectenwald@yourmvi.com A disco inferno broke out at The Boston Spectrum this past weekend.  The banquet hall played host to a night of music and dancing to benefit the Elizabeth To...

From left, David Grace, Meg Miller and Dimitri Apodiakos prepare for Friday’s performance of “The Addams Family” at Belle Vernon Area High School. The show will continue at 7:30 p.m. today and 2:30 p....

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Though they didn’t give many details, Mayor Ron Mozer and Solicitor Joseph Dalfonso said during a recent Monessen City Council meeting that progress is being made on r...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Charleroi firefighters headed to the river Friday to learn the ropes of using sonar equipment. To read the rest of the story, please see a copy of Saturday’s Mon Val...

By John Rectenwald jrectenwald@yourmvi.com April will mark the 110th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.   At the Elizabeth Township Historical Society, the largest collection of vintage clothi...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Over the last two seasons, the South Allegheny boys basketball team has accomplished two particular feats for the first time in program history.   To read the rest o...

By Hannah Walden For the MVI From writing books held together with staples in sixth grade to having her first children’s book published last year, Chantelle Bellavance has long had the desire to be an...