By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Leaders in North Belle Vernon plan to crack down on speeding. During a rescheduled voting meeting Wednesday, several residents complained about people driving over t...

Barry E. “Sunday’’ Nartowicz, 76, of Rostraver Township, passed away on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022, at home with his family by his side. Born in New Eagle on Dec. 21, 1945, he was the son of the late Edwa...

For the MV Independent Three local products can call themselves hall of famers after being enshrined at their college alma mater. Former Ringgold girls basketball star Kristen (Lancas) Manley – Class ...

Patricia A. Chunkala Travalena, 85, of Perryopolis, Jefferson Township, passed away Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, at Amber House, Mt. Pleasant. Born Sept. 23, 1936, in Monessen, she was the daughter of the ...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Ringgold High School’s senior class vice president urged district board members to revise parts of the new student cellphone ban during Wednesday’s board meetin...

By John Rectenwald jrectenwald@yourmvi.com The show must go on at Elizabeth Forward School District. The school board agreed Wednesday to expand the musical theater program at the middle school by ope...

By Joseph Augustine For the Mon Valley Independent If you’re a fan of the board game, “Clue,” then Howling Hills Corn Maze Adventures will be fun for the whole family to partake in this fall season. I...

Stella Filipowski, 93, formerly of Monessen, died on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022, in Walden’s View Personal Care Home, North Huntingdon. Born in Canton Township on April 19, 1929, she was the daughter of...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport Area School District continues to deal with a bus driver shortage that is impacting charter school students who live within its boundaries. But the school b...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Elizabeth Forward’s gridiron was alive with activity Tuesday as high school life skills students from around the Greater Pittsburgh region — and a couple of Steelers S...

By JOHN RECTENWALD jrectenwald@yourmvi.com The opposition camp in Elizabeth Township’s contentious fracking debate will have another week to prepare its cross-examinations of Olympus Energy witnesses....

John Francis Weldon, M.D., died on Sept. 19, 2022, at his home, surrounded by his loving family. Dr. Weldon was born Aug. 19, 1931, in Charleroi, son of the late Owen Patrick and Anne O’Toole Weldon; ...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Dylan Rathway and Trevor Kovatch led the way as Belle Vernon earned a 2-1 win over McGuffey in Section 3-2A play on “The Beach” at James Weir Stadium on Tuesday.   Rat...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com High school students from Italy will become Cougars for a day or two when they visit the Charleroi Area School District campus next month. Superintendent Dr. Ed Zeli...

Carroll James “C.J.” Tisot, age 89, was the beloved husband of the late Sonja (née Gimbara); loving father of Jeff (Lisa), Kevin (Ingrid) and Lisa Taray (Terry); dear grandfather of Samuel Taray and R...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com After nine and a half months of protests from the public and appealing to council, Donora Mayor Don Pavelko has claimed the traditional mayoral office space in ...

Stanley F. Yunkun Jr., 68, of Monongahela, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022, at Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital. Born Jan. 30, 1954, in New Eagle, Stanley was the son of the late...

By ADAM BREWER MVI Sports Resiliency is a word that can be used to describe the 2022 Frazier volleyball squad. After Carmichaels took two of three opening sets Tuesday in Section 2-1A action, the Comm...

Nicholas Kutska, 94, of Monessen, passed away on Sept. 17, 2022, at home with his family by his side. He was born on Dec. 5, 1927, to John Kutska and Helen Habulak Kutska. A graduate of Monessen High ...

By JEFF OLIVER For the MVI When Robbie Graw was gutting the vacant property he recently purchased in Monessen, he came upon something odd behind old cabinets in the basement of the dilapidated structu...