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...
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....
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...
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March 5, 2025
UPMC MEMORIAL in York County is a hospital. A hospital is a place where life or death struggles take place every day. It is usually a cardiac arrest or a stroke or an anaphylactic allergic reaction. I...
For one leading Democrat,Trump, Musk and Putin paranoia merge
Politics
March 5, 2025
Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy is one of the Democrats urging his party to more aggressively resist President Donald Trump across a broad range of issues. “Mr. Murphy has seemed to be everywhere all at...
SALVATION ARMY MCKEESPORT CORPS HOSTS ANNUAL VOLUNTEER DINNER
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March 5, 2025
The Salvation Army McKeesport Corps hosted its annual Volunteer Appreciation Dinner on Feb. 23 — thanking local churches, community groups and individual volunteers for their assistance. Captains Mone...
Speaker Johnson tells GOP lawmakers to skip town halls after an onslaught of protests
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By By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent 
March 5, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is encouraging Republican lawmakers to skip town halls that have been filled with protesters decrying the Trump administration’s slashing of federal govern...
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By By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press 
March 5, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic lawmakers demanded answers from billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency on Thursday as concerns about who has access to America’s most sensitive inform...
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...
Monessen paving project to include Knox Avenue sinkhole
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By MICHAEL RICHTER, mrichter@yourmvi.com 
March 4, 2025
There’s currently a steel plate over the sinkhole, and the area has been sectioned off with cones. Seven streets in Monessen will receive much-needed repairs this year, including Knox Avenue where a s...
Zoning changes considered in Fallowfield Township
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
March 4, 2025
Supervisors will decide on the proposals at a March 26 meeting. Fallowfield Township supervisors will consider a zoning amendment that will affect a handful of properties in the township during a rece...
Fire department receives $64K grant
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ELIZABETH TOWNSHIP
By SARAH PELLIS spellis@yourmvi.com 
March 4, 2025
The amount was increased because ETFD is a merged department. Elizabeth Township Fire Department was awarded $64,322 in a Fire Company and Emergency Medical Services grant, fire Chief Adam Janosko sai...
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March 4, 2025
By Victor Davis Hanson At some point, some president was going to have to stop the unsustainable spending and borrowing. To have any country left, some president would eventually have had to restore a...
The pope’s example
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March 4, 2025
Apapal deathwatch united us. It doesn’t seem as crass an observation now that Pope Francis has been rallying, but regardless of one’s politics or opinion of him specifically or the Catholic Church mor...
APPLE DUMPLING TIME AT BETHESDA CHURCH
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March 4, 2025
Bethesda United Presbyterian Church, 314 Third St., Elizabeth Borough (at the bottom of the Route 51 North off-ramp and across from Dollar General) is holding its advance-order apple dumpling sale. Th...