By Liam Belan lbelan@yourmvi.com Coach Sean Richter believes he has a positive dilemma to sort through this season as he enters his third campaign with Thomas Jefferson girls soccer.   With 28 girls l...

Darlene E. Sager, 71,   of Charleroi, passed away on Aug. 11, 2022, in Penn High-lands Mon Valley Hospital. She was born in Char-   leroi on Feb. 13, 1951, a daughter of the late James and Virginia Ke...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com In rolls the new, out rolls the old. Either way you go, you keep on rolling. After 39 years, Valley Skating Center in Donora will change ownership and undergo r...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh filed an emergency petition Friday to take custody and control over the evidence locker and criminal investigative...

Norma Jean Consonery, 95, passed away peacefully on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, with her loving daughter, Monica, and granddaughter, Courtney, by her side at home in Ashland, Va. She was preceded in deat...

By Matt Petras For the MVI The Washington County Agricultural Fair returns for eight days starting today, featuring improvements such as a heavily renovated hall and improved pavement, fencing and sid...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com The Monongahela Police Department received a $30,000 donation from EQT Corporation this week to purchase body cameras for officers. To read the rest of the stor...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com After finishing last season 8-9-2 overall, the Bentworth girls soccer team and head coach Tyler Hamstra will welcome a number of young players into the program thi...

Mary Jean Coleman, 86, of Monessen, passed away on Aug.   9, 2022, in her daughter’s home in Eighty Four, Pa. She was born Oct. 5, 1935, in Monessen to John and Catherine (Sobol) Chomosh. She was bapt...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com St. Andrew the Apostle Parish will welcome residents from throughout the Mon Valley to its annual ethnic food festival this weekend. There will be plenty of homemade...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com With an experienced squad and a slightly altered section to call home, second-year coach Tori Fedora knows what she thinks her Serra girls soccer program is capable of...

By Max Robinette   mrobinette@yourmvi.com Donora council voted Thursday to place police Superintendent Jim Brice on paid administrative leave. Brice has been police superintendent, the highest ranking...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Thursday was the final chance this year to head to Renziehausen Park in McKeesport for International Village, a three-day ethnic food, music and dance festival. A bit ...

Laura L. Ring, 70, of Monongahela, passed away unexpectedly Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, in Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital. She was born on Nov. 9, 1951, in New Eagle, daughter of the late Aelred “So...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com A year after navigating through a winless season in 2020, Lorenzo Gardner Jr.   got a taste of what winning was like last season.   As a sophomore, the Monessen quar...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Monessen Council intends to have a forensic audit of the city’s Line Usage Fund performed by auditors Cypher and Cypher, focusing on the proper disposition or uti...

By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports A team of seven pool shooters from the Mid-Mon Valley can lay claim to being national champions in 8-ball. Triple Threat, a team that shoots regularly out of Main Street Tave...

William Lee Walters, 71, of Chula Vista, Calif., formerly of Belle Vernon, passed away on June 15, 2022, after a short illness. Bill was born on Aug. 29, 1950, son of the late William Henry Walters an...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Mon Valley is a becoming a booming hub of economic growth.   After the decline of the steel industry, community organizations, business professionals, developers...

Jeff Helsel / Mon Valley Independent Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Edward Stasko and Bikers Helping Others of Southwestern Pennsylvania escorted the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall and the 9/11 Re...