Messages are mostly misfiring for married couple
Features
August 23, 2025
DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have been amicably married for 16 years. We enjoy each other’s company and are home together a lot. However, over the last year or so, I have had an increasingly hard time ...
CHURCH NEWS
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August 23, 2025
Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, 230 Reed Ave., Monessen, will celebrate the 17th pastoral anniversary of its pastor, Bishop Karl Jackson, and his wife, Annette Jackson, on Sunday with morning and afternoo...
Senior Little Miss Italy crowned
Around The Valley, Features
August 22, 2025
Bella Catherine King, 16, of Rostraver Township, was crowned Senior Miss Little Italy during Little Italy Days in Bloomfield. A junior at Belle Vernon Area High School, she is the daughter of Tina and...
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August 22, 2025
• Rostraver gathering, cfsbank Event Center (former Rostraver Gardens) 111 Gallitin Road, Rostraver Township, 10:30 a.m. • Outreach car wash, Dierken’s Pharmacy parking lot, across from Sheetz, Monong...
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Monongahela library to hold creative writing class
August 22, 2025
Home-baked goods will be sold with crafts in The Barn at the Greenock Log House in Elizabeth Township from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday. The two-story log home built around 1790 will be open for tours. Res...
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Center in the Woods,
August 22, 2025
Here’s a look at lunch menus for local centers for next week: (All menus may be subject to change.)
Features
August 21, 2025
Mon Valley Paws will hold its monthly meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Italian Society of Mutual Aid (ISMA) Club, 112 Seventh St., Monessen. All members are urged to attend, as well as interested memb...
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Donora drive-up food distribution on Friday
August 21, 2025
St. Nicholas Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 17 Reed Avenue, Monessen, will have Divine Liturgy at 9:30 a.m. Sunday with the Rev. Robert Holet. A parish meeting and refreshments will follow. St. Paul Bapti...
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August 21, 2025
• Lincoln Borough Police National Night Out, 45 Abes Way, Elizabeth, from 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., with fireworks after. The public is asked to park at Lincoln Borough Fire Hall, 4312 Liberty Way, as a fr...
22nd annual Lois Orange Ducoeur Breast Cancer Walk set for Oct. 11
Features
August 20, 2025
The event will be held at Palmer Park in Donora this year. For the MVI Plans are underway for the 22nd annual Lois Orange Ducoeur Breast Cancer Walk. The one-mile walk will be held at 10 a.m. Oct. 11 ...
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August 20, 2025
• Renzie market, McKeesport Fire Department No. 2, rear parking lot, Tulip Drive at Eden Park Blvd., McKeesport, 5:30 to 8 p.m. • Free concert featuring This Indecision, Plum Street, Elizabeth Borough...
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Soup and salad fundraiser behind held for C.R.O.W.N.
August 20, 2025
Representatives from the Monongahela Area Library will attend the Ringgold Elementary School North open house being held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Information will be available on what the library...
WCCC receives $500K from Miner family foundation
Around The Valley, Features, Latest News, ...
August 19, 2025
The donation will be used to provide scholarships for students pursuing careers in health, technology and industrial arts. For the MVI The Robert Miner Family Foundation recently presented the Westmor...
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LIBRARY DONATIONS
August 19, 2025
The Monessen Public Library has shelved the following: Memoriams Dennie L. Anderson “The Missing Half” by Ashley Flowers, presented by Monessen High School Class of 1964 Eleanor Pallini “Now or Never”...
Remembering my heroes of World War II
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GUEST COLUMN
August 19, 2025
On Jan. 24, 1941, three Donora men enlisted in the U.S. Army, and they may have done that to avoid being drafted. At that time, the United States was not at war, but the government was gearing up for ...
YESTERYEAR
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August 19, 2025
Crowds of people surround and climb on tanks, which were stopped by the crowd as they drove toward the Red Square area of Moscow, Russia, on Aug. 19, 1991, during a military coup after Mikhail Gorbach...
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August 19, 2025
• Belle Vernon Public Library Book Club meeting, to discuss comic novel, “The Rosie Project” by Graeme Simsion, at the library, 505 Speer St., Belle Vernon, 6:30 p.m. • Bingo, North Belle Vernon Volun...
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Thrift shop to hold senior citizen day sale
August 19, 2025
The monthly meeting of the Mon Valley Coin Club will take place 7 p.m. Thursday at VFW Post 1409, 793 E. Main St., Monongahela. Discussion will be held on silver dollars. A 50/50 will be offered and c...
Stressless, snack smarter this back-to-school season
Features, Food
August 16, 2025
Family Features If back-to-school season feels more overwhelming than exciting, you’re not alone. Between adjusting schedules, planning meals and organizing school supplies, it’s easy for families to ...