Rams top Colonials on Stasko tally
By Mon Valley Independent 
August 31, 2022
By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com There was no letdown for the Ringgold boys soccer team Tuesday night.   While the Rams were held scoreless for 60-plus minutes, they controlled possession, generated...
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August 31, 2022
Robert W. Urwin Sr., 88, of Charleroi, passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022, at Premier Washington Health Care. He was born in Charleroi on March 5, 1934, son of John and Bertha Jackson Urwin. Robert...
Pa. program tops 10,000 requests for naloxone
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By Mon Valley Independent 
August 31, 2022
By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com State officials announced Monday that they have filled 10,000 requests for naloxone through Pennsylvania’s mail-based program. To read the rest of the story, pl...
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August 31, 2022
Paul Gilbert Keefer, 93, of Monessen, died Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2022, in Deerfield Beach, Fla. He was born Feb. 25, 1929, in Monessen, son of John and Katherine Keefer. Paul spent his early years in Mone...
Ringgold girls have experience to lean on
By Mon Valley Independent 
August 31, 2022
By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports The Section 2-3A girls soccer season has always been a competitive one as there usually is a logjam at the top of the standings. There are some good rivalries among the membe...
Sara I. Brizzi – Smock
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August 30, 2022
Sara I. Brizzi, 97, of Smock, died Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, in her home. She was born Sept. 22, 1924, in Monongahela, River Hill, the daughter of Joseph and Ruth Griffith Scagline. Sara was a member of ...
Betty Jean See Cain – Monongahela
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August 30, 2022
Betty Jean See Cain, 85, of Monongahela, Forward Township, passed away on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022, at Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital. Born on Sept. 3, 1936, in Louisa, Ky., she was the daughter of H...
Mary Gail ‘Abby’ McMahon – Monongahela
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August 30, 2022
Mary Gail “Abby” McMahon, 90, of Monongahela, died Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, in her home. She was born April 19, 1932, in Vestaburg, daughter of Henry T. and Agnes Irene Vinoverski Brown. Abby was an act...
Monessen Elementary students build ‘apple annihilator’
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By Mon Valley Independent 
August 30, 2022
Students in Jennifer Gardner’s fifth grade STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) class at Monessen Elementary Center started the school year with a challenge to build an “apple annihi...
Shirley A. Tomich – Washington, Pa.
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August 30, 2022
Shirley A. Tomich, 86, of Washington, Pa., died Aug. 28, 2022, in her home. She was born April 2, 1936, in Washington, the daughter of the late Casimer and Gertrude Rundquist Jasinski. Shirley was a g...
DEP holding two public hearings regarding landfill
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By Mon Valley Independent 
August 30, 2022
By JOHN RECTENWALD jrectenwald@yourmvi.com Anyone who plans to participate in a pair of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection public hearings this week on the Westmoreland Sanitary Landf...
Frazier dominates fourth to close out Cougars
By Mon Valley Independent 
August 30, 2022
By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com It’s the start of a new volleyball season and the Frazier Commodores are off to a winning start. Frazier got all it could handle from former section foe Charleroi ...
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August 30, 2022
Angeline DiMatteo Belsar Weathers, 94, of Monessen, died Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, in St. Clair Hospital. She was born on Oct. 11, 1927, in Monessen, daughter of the late Joseph and Ida Pascotti DiMatteo...
DCED secretary visits Mon Valley
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By Mon Valley Independent 
August 30, 2022
By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Business is booming in the Mon Valley.   On Monday, Department of Community and Economic Development Acting Secretary Neil Weaver saw first hand the successful resul...
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August 30, 2022
Janison John Tognarine, 83, of Elizabeth, passed away on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022, at Jefferson Hospital. An Army veteran, he retired as a warehouse foreman for Marraccini Supermarket in Elizabeth. He ...
Town hall set on lead paint dangers
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By Mon Valley Independent 
August 30, 2022
By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Monessen Council heard from a leader of the Lead Paint Hazard Control and Healthy Homes Program of Westmoreland County last week and has planned a town hall meeti...
Jaguars shut out Leopards
By Mon Valley Independent 
August 30, 2022
By Liam Belan lbelan@yourmvi.com Thomas Jefferson dominated section opponent Belle Vernon in a 4-0 win on Monday night.   The first half saw Thomas Jefferson dictate most of the play as they were able...
McKeesport making plans for Christmas parade
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By Mon Valley Independent 
August 30, 2022
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com With this year’s celebrations of Labor Day, Halloween and Thanksgiving yet to arrive, it may feel a little early to be talking about Christmas. But before you know it,...
Cougars blank ’Cats
By Mon Valley Independent 
August 30, 2022
By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Charleroi used a three-goal second half to capture a 4-0 win over visiting Bentworth in its Section 2-1A opener under the raindrops at Myron Pottios Stadium Monday n...
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August 30, 2022
Pamela Jo Lynn King, 71, of Belle Vernon, passed away peacefully on Aug. 15, 2022. Born on May 29, 1951, she was the loving daughter of Shirley Chubboy who survives. She is survived by her son, James ...