In loving memory of Alice Marie Scheetz, beloved wife, mother and grandmother, on the one-year anniversary of your passage into Heaven: Mom, although you are gone from our presence here on Earth, you ...

By RALPH STONE MVI columnist Nearing the end of my ninth decade, I am thankful that most of the methods and way we celebrated Halloween are, indeed, a thing of the past. I would not appreciate cleanin...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com If you can’t get excited for this time of year in high school sports, you should probably go see a doctor. Even outside of the Mon Valley, big football games lurk ...

Anna M. Dean Koussonmbus, 77, of Monessen, passed away on Oct. 22, 2022, in Baldwin Health Center. She was born in Greensburg, daughter of the late Harry and Margaret Dean. Anna had been employed at t...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com As Halloween approaches, Glassport Borough is looking to get into the holiday spirit with its third annual Halloween House Decorating Contest. The competition has beco...

James “Mac” McKevitt, 90, of Brownstown, Fayette City, passed away Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, in his residence. He was born Jan. 21, 1932, in Brownstown, Fayette City, son of Charles McKevitt and Bridget...

Pamela Brewer Pendland, 69, of Belle Vernon, passed away Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022, at Penn Highlands Mon Valley, Monongahela. Born Oct. 23, 1953, in North Charleroi, she was the daughter of the late Will...

By Matt Petras For the MVI Broom, a Belle Vernon-based metal and classic rock band, won this year’s SPARK Battle of the Bands competition at The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls, which nets it a recorded 10-son...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com X’eriee Griffin, 11, volunteered Tuesday at Mon Valley Youth and Teen Association’s Kid Connection after-school program. The program hosts around 55 students fr...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Eighth-seeded Charleroi dispatched of No. 9 Freedom by a score of 2-0 Tuesday to advance to the quarterfinals of the WPIAL soccer playoffs. For the Cougars, who advanc...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com After battling some nerves early on, it was smooth sailing for the Frazier volleyball team in its WPIAL Class 1A first-round match against visiting Trinity Christi...

By ADAM BREWER MVI Sports The Bentworth boys soccer team played until the bitter end….and then some in their Class 1A First Round contest against Seton LaSalle. The No. 12 Bearcats had upset on their ...

Andrea Lee Zewe, 74, of Wintersville, Ohio, formerly of New Eagle, died Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022, in Trinity Medical Center West, Steubenville, Ohio. She was born Jan. 29, 1949, in Pittsburgh, daughter ...

LaVerne Theresa Bonari Galvan, 99, of Monessen, passed away on Friday, Oct. 21, 2022, at home, surrounded by her loving family. She was born July 8, 1923, in Monessen, daughter of the late Cosmo and A...

Mary L. Piccolo Eusepi, 100, of Donora, died Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, at Residence at the Hilltop, Carroll Township. Born March 5, 1922, in Yatesboro, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Elizabe...

By JOHN RECTENWALD jrectenwald@yourmvi.com The Elizabeth Borough Municipal Authority worked through a prolonged executive session Tuesday to prepare for a potential sale of its sewage treatment plant....

Monessen Elementary Center third grade students Za’Niyah Garret and Amari’ona Reed learn computer coding skills Tuesday from their classroom teacher Ronni Mrlack and David Noel, a senior at Monessen H...

Douglas Andrew Breuer, 74, of Raleigh, N.C., died on Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022. He was born in Pittsburgh on April 1, 1948, and is the son of Carl Andrew Breuer and Dolores Ogden; and brother to Carole Sar...

Margaret J. Bergstedt, 98, of Charleroi, went to be with the Lord peacefully at home on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, with her loving and caring sons at her side. Born on Dec. 30, 1923, she was the daughter ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Dr. Frank-N-Furter is set to make musical lovers in the Mon Valley “shiver with antici…pation” this weekend. And many in the audience at McKeesport Little Theater will...