By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com McKeesport Area School Board held a scattered final meeting of the fiscal school year Wednesday. The meeting’s published agenda sparked dissent from district re...

By MATT PETRAS For the MVI The Monongahela Aquatorium will debut its 2023 summer concert series this Saturday with a stacked show, featuring Six Gun Sally alongside Artimus Pyle, opened by Bon Journey...

Frank D. Mazzoni Jr., 61, passed away peacefully on Friday, June 2, 2023, at home in Rostraver Township, after a long battle with cancer. He was born Aug. 2, 1961, in Vineland, N.J., and grew up in De...

Ruth E. Corcoran, 82, of Webster, died Sunday, June 25, 2023, at Jefferson Hospital. She was born Jan. 22, 1941, in Monessen, the daughter of Alfred Regis and Ellen Wilt Creevey. Ruth was a 1958 gradu...

Angelo Falbo, 93, of Rostraver Township, passed away on Thursday, June 15, 2023, in Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital. He was born on Jan. 27, 1930, in Monessen, son of the late Frank Sr. and Mary Sp...

Helen McGovern, 97, of Monessen, went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, June 28, 2023, in Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital. Born in Monessen on May 30, 1926, she was the daughter of the late Alex an...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Elite Physical Therapy may have had only five players, but the defending champions continue to run through their competition so far in the Mon Valley Independent S...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Police officers lined the street Tuesday to escort the body of Glenn Porter to the Carl J. Spallino Funeral Home in Charleroi. All area law enforcement agencies...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com After going winless in a pair of games during the MVISBL boys division’s opening week, Union Cleaners entered the win column for the first time this summer on Tuesda...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com About 100 concerned local residents piled into the West Newton Gymnasium Tuesday night to learn more about a proposed natural-gas powered power plant in Elizabeth Town...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Monongahela suffered another water line break Tuesday. Around 12:15 p.m., a line on Chess Street between Third Street and Lynn Alley burst, cracking pavement an...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com When Sarah Graby graduated from Monessen High School in 1999, her class had 68 members — a small graduating class by any measure. This year’s class had 44 graduat...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Charleroi Area School Board honored two retirees at Tuesday’s meeting.   Custodian Sharon Johnson and second-grade teacher Mary Kay Sidary were celebrated by directo...

Deane Edwin Woy Jr., 68, of Buena Vista, Pa., died on Sunday, June 25, 2023. He was born in Pittsburgh, on Dec. 9, 1954, and is the son of the late Deane Edwin Sr. and Mary Ruth Stofko Woy. He was the...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com In an early-season battle between a pair of unbeaten teams, AMD Industries managed to get the best of Cedarbrook. The two-time MVISBL girls division champions held a...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Defending champion Edward Jones picked up its second win of the season and kept Lee Supply winless with a 60-46 win to open up Week 2 of Mon Valley Independent Sum...

By Gino Antimarino MVI Sports Dax Thomas State Farm recorded its first win of the MVISBL season Monday. Four players finished in double figures to help give first-year head coach Dan Slain his first s...

Janet Wilson Baron, 72, of Belle Vernon, Washington Township, passed away Sunday, June 25, 2023, at Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital in Carroll Township. Born Feb. 6, 1951, in North Charleroi, she w...

Area residents came to the McKeesport Area High School auditorium Monday night to watch the Jimmy Awards featuring McKeesport’s Kaitlyn Majewski and Elizabeth Forward’s Tyler Guinto-Brody. Displaying ...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com After decades of community and behavioral health services, Angora Gardens will close July 31. The long-time White Oak institution operates from a 19th century f...