Monessen moves toward bringing down building
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 25, 2022
By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com There hasn’t been a date set, but Monessen City Council members have their minds set on demolishing 500 Donner Ave. as soon as it’s safe and legal.   To read the ...
Rosemarie Gail Bird – Belle Vernon
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By obits 
February 25, 2022
Rosemarie Gail Bird, 67, of Belle Vernon, passed away peacefully on Feb. 23, 2022, in her home with her family by her side. Born in Charleroi on Sept. 9, 1954, Rose is the daughter of the late Frank D...
Couple’s dairy operation thrives at local farm
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 25, 2022
By John Rectenwald jrectenwald@yourmvi.com After 200-plus years, a seventh-generation Belle Vernon farm is selling milk directly to consumers again.   To read the rest of the story, please see a copy ...
Fred Shawl – McKeesport
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By obits 
February 25, 2022
Fred Shawl, 84, of McKeesport, died Feb. 23, 2022, at Hempfield Manor. Born Dec. 23, 1937, in Mc-Keesport, he was the son of the late James Glenn Shawl and Ethel Dingledine Shawl and husband of the la...
Local leaders condemn Russia’s attack on Ukraine
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 25, 2022
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler had harsh words Thursday for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade in Ukraine. To read the rest of the story, please see a ...
War ‘painful’ for Ukrainian Orthodox priest
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 25, 2022
By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Fr. Roman Yatskiv of St. Nicholas Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Monessen struggled to find words Thursday as he watched video footage of Russia’s attack on his homela...
Floyd A. Stangroom – Brownsville
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By obits 
February 25, 2022
Floyd A. Stangroom, 84, of Brownsville, died Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022. Born in Webster on Dec. 13, 1937, he was the son of the late Harry J. and Leona P. Hall Stangroom. Floyd was a heavy equipment di...
Snack time
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By Stacy Wolford 
February 24, 2022
Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Cody Russell, 5, of Washington Township, Tanner Sypolt, 9, of Fallowfield Township, Max Russell, 9, of Washington Township, Nathan Dudzinski, 9, of Rostraver To...
Pa. high court picks new congressional map
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By Stacy Wolford 
February 24, 2022
Staff and wire reports Pennsylvania’s highest court broke a partisan deadlock Wednesday over a new map of congressional districts by selecting boundaries that broadly adhere to the outlines of current...
Tensions flare at McKeesport Area School Board meeting
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By Stacy Wolford 
February 24, 2022
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Tensions flared once again at this month’s McKeesport Area School Board meeting as the board continued debating the validity of the process used to approve the superin...
McKeesport road reopens
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By Stacy Wolford 
February 24, 2022
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A portion of Ravine Street closed since last week reopened Wednesday. The brick road runs under the Versailles Avenue Bridge, and a small portion of it between Point S...
Former Ringgold star Jones set to coach in European League
By Jeremy Sellew 
February 24, 2022
By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports For the second time in his long coaching career, Charles “Yogi” Jones will be coaching in Europe. Jones was named the head coach of the Hamburg (Germany) Sea Devils of the Eu...
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By obits 
February 24, 2022
Joseph A. Scagline Jr., 90, of Mount Pleasant, died Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, in Excela Health Frick Hospital, Mount Pleasant. He was born Nov. 21, 1931, in Monongahela, son of Joseph and Ruth Griffith ...
Joyce Dimperio Begg – North Huntingdon
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By obits 
February 23, 2022
Joyce Dimperio Begg, 82, passed away peacefully Friday, Feb. 18, 2022, at her residence in North Huntingdon. A daughter of the late Dominic and Elvera Caruso Dimperio, Joyce was born May 10, 1939, in ...
Dustin P. Harvey – Monessen
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February 23, 2022
Dustin P. Harvey, 41, of Monessen, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, at his home. He was born on Aug. 12, 1980, in Pittsburgh, son of the late Dana Harvey and Anne Marie “Mimi” Bludi...
Anthony ‘Tony’ Moneta – Greensburg
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By obits 
February 23, 2022
Anthony “Tony” Moneta, 78, of Greensburg, went to be with the Lord on Monday, Feb. 21, 2022. A son of the late Anthony and Dorothy Rutherford Moneta, he was born in North Charleroi on Oct. 5, 1943. Fo...