Penn Highlands Healthcare kicks off its annual giving campaign
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November 18, 2024
Penn Highlands Healthcare has undertaken a grassroots effort to alleviate transportation as a barrier to health care in rural communities. For the MVI The annual Penn Highlands Healthcare Giving Campa...
Thrill of Hope event to bring Christmas cheer to Monessen
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By LADIMIR GARCIA lgarcia@yourmvi.com 
November 18, 2024
The celebration will be hosted Dec. 7 by His Place and the Monessen library. His Place Coffee, Community and More is preparing for its annual Thrill of Hope event in Monessen, wanting to bring some Ch...
Monessen police chief asks for more officers
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By MICHAEL RICHTER, mrichter@yourmvi.com 
November 18, 2024
Dave Yuhasz wants council to add two more people to his department. Police Chief Dave Yuhasz detailed the struggles his department is facing, including large call volumes and two open positions, befor...
Suit filed against Cornell Capital in bankruptcy court
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
November 18, 2024
The company acquired World Kitchen in 2017. Cornell Capital LLC, the former owner of Instant Brands, has been accused of misleading lenders about the company’s performance in order to extract a $345 m...
Area snowfall expected to be minimal this winter
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November 18, 2024
The forecast for Western Pennsylvania is slightly warmer and wetter than usual. By MEGAN SWIFT TribLive Meteorologists are calling it: Western Pennsylvania’s winter wonderland might be more like a no-...
Additions may be made to White Oak budget
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By SARAH PELLIS spellis@yourmvi.com 
November 18, 2024
The projects are expected to be discussed at tonight’s meeting. White Oak council members discussed items that they may add to the 2025 budget at last week’s workshop meeting — including a possible st...
Politics
November 18, 2024
THE 2024 ELECTION SEASON was expensive. AdImpact, a Virginia-based advertising analytics firm, reported the total cost of political advertising leading to this year’s general election at a staggering ...
Coretta Scott King: a woman of dignity and quiet strength
Politics
November 18, 2024
For Black women of my mother’s generation, Coretta Scott King was like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. Following the assassination of her husband, during days of very public mourning, Mrs. King was a port...
Fire sparks at site of former Allenport plant
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By LADIMIR GARCIA lgarcia@yourmvi.com 
November 16, 2024
One firefighter was taken to the hospital after a 20-foot fall into the building’s basement. The Stockdale Volunteer Fire Department responded to a fire Friday in a building on the former Wheeling- Pi...
BEARCATS SETTLE FOR SECOND PLACE
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November 16, 2024
From left, Bentworth’s Andrew Vipperman, Adam Moessner, DJ Hays and Aiden McMurray look on solemnly as they wait to shake hands with players from Lancaster Mennonite following their 1-0 loss in the PI...
In Bloom House of Beauty Salon now open in McKeesport
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By JIM BUSCH For the MVI 
November 16, 2024
Owner Julianne Gray said they are focused on delivering intimate, personalized care for their clients. For Julianne Gray, the In Bloom House of Beauty is not just a business venture, it is the realiza...
Business Resource Center open in Monongahela
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By SARAH PELLIS spellis@yourmvi.com 
November 16, 2024
A ribbon-cutting was held Friday for the Mon Valley Alliance Foundation venture. The Mon Valley Alliance Foundation held a ribbon cutting Friday for its new Business Resource Center at 235 West Main S...
Anonymous donation gives new life to McKeesport Community Newsroom
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By MICHAEL RICHTER, mrichter@yourmvi.com 
November 16, 2024
The program is now operating out of Carnegie Library of McKeesport. Three months after Point Park University cut funding for the McKeesport Community Newsroom, an anonymous donor stepped up to allow t...
McKeesport’s Kane center hit with COVID outbreak
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November 16, 2024
Twenty-three infected residents are being sequestered in a separate wing of the facility. By RYAN DETO TribLive Allegheny County officials said Friday that a COVID-19 outbreak has hit one of its senio...
Politics
By By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent 
November 16, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — After a resounding election victory, delivering what President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans said is a mandate to govern, an uneasy political question is emerging: Will there be...
Victorious Republicans are once again falling for the mandate trap
Politics
November 16, 2024
In September, I wrote, “No matter who wins, the next president will declare that they have a ‘mandate’ to do something. And they will be wrong.” I was wrong in one sense. Now, I still think the idea o...
Live! Casino to host next monthly Westmoreland community job fair
Around The Valley
November 16, 2024
The job fair will be held at The Venue Live! inside the Hempfield Township casino. By the MVI The next monthly Westmoreland County Job Fair will be held from noon to 3 p.m. Tuesday at The Venue Live!,...
Veterans dispose of flags in traditional burning ceremony
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By SARAH PELLIS spellis@yourmvi.com 
November 15, 2024
More than 1,500 American flags from five area cemeteries were burned. American Legion Post 28 and VFW Post 1190 held their annual flag-burning ceremony Thursday afternoon at the Herman Mihalich Memori...