By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Strength and kindness, hard work and perseverance.   These are a few characteristics of new Monessen Communities That Care assistant program coordinator Rayna W...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com With a heavy dose of WPIAL and Mon Valley talent featured up and down its roster, the California men’s soccer team opened its 2022 campaign Thursday night. The Vulca...

Jeff Helsel / Mon Valley Independent California Area Elementary School Principal Rachel Nagy escorts third-grade student Wylie Werner and second-grader Taylor Pritchard, both of Roscoe, to the school ...

By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports When Yough’s boys soccer team made the WPIAL playoffs last season, it marked just the fourth time since 2004 the program qualified for the postseason. To read the rest of the...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Almost a month after Mon Valley EMS visited Monessen Council to address rumors about response times and staffing concerns, the city is going to ask Westmoreland C...

By ADAM BREWER MVI Sports A strong end to the season last year, a solid nucleus returning this fall and a new section that plays in favor to them, there’s a lot of positive things buzzing around the C...

By JOHN RECTENWALD jrectenwald@yourmvi.com West Deer Township’s denial of Olympus Energy’s Dionysus Well Pad was fully upheld in Allegheny County Wednesday in a decision handed down by Court of Common...

It is with great sadness to announce that Dennis C. Foor, 73, of Clearwater, Fla., formerly of Belle Vernon, died on July 21, 2022, after a brief battle with cancer. He was the son of the late Oren V....

By the MVI Members of the West Jefferson Hills School District honored one of their beloved retired educators and community leaders. Superintendent Dr. Janet Sardon and West Jefferson Hills School Dis...

Karen Lee Richards, 69, of Belle Vernon, formerly of New Kensington, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022, in Belair Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, Lower Burrell. She was born Dec. 7, 1952, in ...

By John Rectenwald jrectenwald@yourmvi.com A crackdown on messy property owners who violate borough code ordinances and abandoned vehicles could bring more income to Elizabeth Borough. The consensus a...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com The Donora Smog Commemorative Committee will host the Donora End of Summer Block Party from 2 to 11 p.m. Saturday on McKean Avenue between Fifth and Seventh Str...

Peter Nicholas Skurkay, 79, Rostraver Township, died Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Born in Rostraver Township on Dec. 19, 1942, he was the son of the late Peter and Eva Bazilawich Skurkay. Funeral arrangemen...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com Entering his seventh season at the helm of the California Vulcans football program, Gary Dunn hasn’t lowered the bar as far as his expectations go for the upcoming c...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com After a disappointing finish as WPIAL Class 4A runner-up last season, the Belle Vernon Area football team is looking to make the next step and hoist a gold trophy ...

By ADAM BREWER MVI Sports As Bentworth football coach JJ Knabb enters his fourth year with the Bearcats, he is faced with a team that may not have a lot of experience, but has tremendous upside. The B...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com The Yough football program may be at a low point in its history, but if anyone knows about the success the Cougars are capable of, it’s newly hired head coach and Youg...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Thomas Jefferson still has a bitter taste from last year’s loss in the WPIAL semifinals. The bar remains as high as ever for the Jaguars this season. The program is a ...

By ADAM BREWER MVI Sports California’s football team will look to use its numbers to climb to the top of the Tri-County South Conference. Most Class A teams usually average around 25 to 30 players, bu...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com Soon after he was hired as the head football coach at Charleroi, Mark Gambino reached out to a former Cougars’ coach to get a little inside information on the team h...