Donora police officer may handle code enforcement
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By KRISTIE LINDEN For the MVI 
March 7, 2025
The borough will take steps to make sure the positions don’t overlap. One of Donora’s full-time police officers wants to become the borough’s part-time code enforcement officer as well. Officer Mark S...
Pa. to spend $10 million on new voter registration system
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March 7, 2025
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania is spending more than $10 million to replace its electronic voter registration database with an election management system that will also provide election night res...
Christians mark Ash Wednesday
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March 6, 2025
Many Christians headed to church yesterday for Ash Wednesday services. It also marks the beginning of Lent — the 40-day period of abstinence and self-restraint leading up to Easter. Ashes are placed o...
Charleroi Area to stage ‘Hadestown: Teen Edition’
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
March 6, 2025
The set was built and painted entirely by students. A battle of good and evil – all in the name of love – will take center stage this week at Charleroi Area High School. Students are ready to dazzle w...
Location for Pyrex glass time capsule topic of discussion
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
March 6, 2025
Charleroi councilman Larry Celaschi thinks the Meadow Avenue Park would be a good location to bury the time capsule. A time capsule commemorating the history of Pyrex glass and those who made it could...
McKeesport sets fees for food truck permits
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By MICHAEL RICHTER, mrichter@yourmvi.com 
March 6, 2025
Mayor Michael Cherepko explained when zoning ordinances were done years ago, food trucks weren’t around. McKeesport council established food truck permit fees at Wednesday’s meeting. Under the new ord...
Reeling them in: Local groups kick off Lenten fish fry season
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By SARAH PELLIS spellis@yourmvi.com 
March 6, 2025
Churches, fire departments and community organizations across the Valley heated up the fryers for the Ash Wednesday kickoff to the Lenten fish fry season. Another season of Lenten traditions kicked of...
Attempted homicide suspect back in custody after being accidentally released
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WASHINGTON COUNTY
March 6, 2025
By the MVI A Monessen man awaiting trial for attempted homicide is back in jail after being accidentally released from the county lockup in December. The Washington County district attorney told WTAE-...
Ringgold elementary school warns of possible whooping cough exposure
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By MICHAEL RICHTER, mrichter@yourmvi.com 
March 6, 2025
Ringgold Elementary School South administrators sent a letter Wednesday warning parents and guardians that their children “may have been exposed to a person” who has whooping cough. The rest of the le...
Lenten favorites at Lampert’s Market
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March 5, 2025
Erika Scott has seafood salad and Linda Walko displays a bowl of haluski at Lampert’s Market in McKeesport. These are some of the many food items that will be available on Ash Wednesday and every Frid...
Public gets information on proposed zoning changes
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CARROLL TOWNSHIP
By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
March 5, 2025
A vote is expected to be taken when supervisors meet again April 1. A zoning amendment is one step closer to being implemented in Carroll Township. On Tuesday, ahead of the township’s regular meeting,...
Pancakes are Shrove Tuesday tradition
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By LADIMIR GARCIA lgarcia@yourmvi.com 
March 5, 2025
The Belle Vernon Rotary Club prepares for Lent with its largest fundraiser of the year. The Lenten season has officially begun, and the Belle Vernon Rotary Club started the observance with its 61st an...
Motte receives 5-year extension
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By MICHAEL RICHTER, mrichter@yourmvi.com 
March 5, 2025
Monessen’s school board gave unanimous approval to the new contract, which will run through 2030. Monessen school board has approved a five-year contract extension for Superintendent Dr. Robert Motte....
Update provided on West Mifflin Area cafeteria events
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WEST MIFFLIN AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT
By SARAH PELLIS spellis@yourmvi.com 
March 5, 2025
The high school staff was recently selected for a Moments Matter Award. The Nutrition Group, which provides food for the West Mifflin Area School District, recently provided an update to the school bo...
Suicide, accidental deaths dropped in 2024, coroner says
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WESTMORELAND COUNTY
March 5, 2025
The death rate from drug overdoses and traffic crashes also declined. By RENATTA SIGNORINI and QUINCEY REESE TribLive Westmoreland community relations and prevention Director Tim Phillips knows the co...
Trump vows to keep up ‘swift and unrelenting action’
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March 5, 2025
The president addressed a sharply divided Congress, with one Democrat being ejected from the speech. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to keep up his campaign of “swift and unrele...
TEACHING ARTIST VISITS MONESSEN
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March 4, 2025
Teaching artist Amy Roadman of Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art’s Artist-in-Residence Program visited Monessen Elementary Center Monday morning and worked with students on mosaic designs. Janaiya St...
Audit intensifies cyber charter reform effort
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March 4, 2025
Auditor General Tim DeFoor identified “uncommon” spending on gift cards and real estate. By KATIE MEYER Spotlight PA HARRISBURG — Key Republicans say they are increasingly convinced they must reform P...
Firefighters respond to 2 Charleroi crashes
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
March 4, 2025
No serious injuries were reported in the accidents in the Speers Industrial Park and downtown Charleroi. It was a busy morning for Charleroi firefighters. Chief Robert Whiten Jr. said the department r...
Rostraver Twp. to vote on agreement for solar farm
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By LADIMIR GARCIA lgarcia@yourmvi.com 
March 4, 2025
Pivot Energy has offered to make a $150,000 payment to the township. A solar farm is coming to Rostraver Township, and commissioners are expecting to vote on an agreement to receive funds for the proj...