Legion ball season underway
By Mon Valley Independent 
June 2, 2023
By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com With the WPIAL baseball season winding down, area baseball players have already begun their American Legion seasons.   The Belle Vernon Legion team, coached by Tom J...
‘Coach Rod’ gets his one for the thumb
By Mon Valley Independent 
June 2, 2023
By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Living in Pittsburgh, there was always that quest for that “one for the thumb” when it comes to Super Bowl rings and championships. Now, there’s another local lege...
GoFundMe set up to aid business destroyed in fire
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By Mon Valley Independent 
June 2, 2023
By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to help the owner of a Donner Avenue business that burned down last week. To read the rest of the story, please see a copy o...
McKeesport Garden Club celebrating 90 years
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By Mon Valley Independent 
June 2, 2023
By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com The McKeesport Garden Club will celebrate its 90th anniversary with events June 4-10 at the McKeesport Rose Garden and Arboretum. The club will hold its officia...
James ‘Jimmy’ H. Stratigos – North Huntingdon
Obituaries
By obits 
June 1, 2023
James “Jimmy” H. Stratigos passed away peacefully on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, at his home in North Huntingdon. Mr. Stratigos was born on Oct. 5, 1936, in Milopotoamos, a small village on the island of K...
Ronald Albert Monack – Charleroi
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By obits 
June 1, 2023
Ronald Albert Monack, 94, of Charleroi, went to be with the Lord on May 31, 2023, at the Saint Anne Home in Greensburg. Ron was born on May 16, 1929, to the late Michael and Edith Pasqua DeCapitio Mon...
Obituaries
By obits 
June 1, 2023
Gary T. Gauden, 64, of Roscoe, passed away on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, surrounded by his loving family. He was born in North Charleroi on July 8, 1958, son of the late Elijah T. and Margaret Bell Gauden...
No. 4 Belle Vernon stuns No. 2 Montour to win fifth WPIAL title
By Jeremy Sellew 
June 1, 2023
By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com For the fifth time in program history, Belle Vernon Area and head coach Tom Rodriguez hoisted the WPIAL championship trophy Wednesday. After a marathon game, clock...
BVA Leps win WPIAL Class 4A championship
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By Stacy Wolford 
June 1, 2023
Mike Darnay / MVI Sports Belle Vernon Area High School seniors Lexi Daniels, Maren Metikosh and Olivia Kolowitz raise the WPIAL Class 4A championship trophy with the Pirate Parrot following their 8-7 ...
Lock and Dam 4 project nearing end after 20 years
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By Stacy Wolford 
June 1, 2023
By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Like the river it services, construction on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Monongahela River Lock and Dam 4 keeps rolling along. The engineering project, whic...
Protect PT hosts town hall
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By Stacy Wolford 
June 1, 2023
By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Two environmental groups partnered to hold an informational meeting at the Rostraver Public Library Wednesday to discuss the health effects of the Westmoreland Sanitar...
California doomed by mistakes in loss to Bishop Canevin
By Jeremy Sellew 
June 1, 2023
By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com Mistakes came back to hurt California on the big stage at Wild Things Park Wednesday afternoon. The fourth-seeded Trojans committed five errors, including two-plus i...