Chill Fire Music and Arts Festival debuts
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By MATT PETRAS For the MVI 
July 20, 2024
Created by New Eagle native Allan Howard, it will continue today at Tubby Hall Park. The Chill Fire Music and Arts Festival, organized by New Eagle native Allan Howard to spotlight positivity and crea...
Friends inspired to honor Cal U grad McIlvain
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By By CHRISTINE HAINES For the MVI 
July 20, 2024
He died this week after being severely wounded while serving in Afghanistan in 2010. A California University of Pennsylvania (now PennWest) graduate and Uniontown native who was critically wounded whi...
Arts, gardens and fun at Rostraver Public Library
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By By NYA O?NEAL For the MVI 
July 20, 2024
Garden Days wrapped up for the summer this week. Rostraver Public Library has concluded its final Garden Days event for the summer. The program involved children planting their own gardens at the begi...
Trump ally joins Nippon to help complete U.S. Steel sale
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By By RYAN DETO Trib Total Media 
July 20, 2024
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will reportedly help finalize the $14.9 billion purchase. Amid a contentious proposed sale, Japanese company Nippon Steel Corp. has hired former U.S. Secretary of...
Community says farewell to Comperatore
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July 20, 2024
By RENATTA SIGNORINI, JULIA BURDELSKI, JOYCE HANZ and JACK TROY Trib Total Media Mourners wiped away tears and held small American flags as they watched the procession for Corey Comperatore pass by fr...
Politics
July 20, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — A rapidly growing chorus of Democratic lawmakers called Friday for President Joe Biden to drop his reelection bid, even as the president insisted he’s ready to return to the campaign...
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By By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press 
July 20, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — To borrow a favorite phrase from the man himself, President Joe Biden is at an inflection point. Is his on-the-ropes reelection campaign about public service or his ego? About securi...
FRESH LEMONADE FOR SALE
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July 19, 2024
From left, Luca Turkovich, 4, Laina Johnson, 6, and Brynn Turkovich, 8, all of Monessen, set up a stand to sell fresh lemonade and handcrafted bracelets in front of Mon Valley Phone Repair in Monessen...
Longtime Westmoreland DA John Peck dies at 77
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By By RENATTA SIGNORINI Trib Total Media 
July 19, 2024
He held the position for 27 years before leaving office in 2021. As Westmoreland County’s top prosecutor, John Peck would go to Mass every day. And then he’d go to work, always well-dressed — even if ...
Monongahela’s founder depicted in large mural
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By MICHAEL RICHTER, mrichter@yourmvi.com 
July 19, 2024
The image of Joseph Parkison is displayed on the side of Main Street Barber and Supply. Residents and visitors strolling down Main Street — or those seeking a haircut — have an opportunity to have a l...
Mon Yough chamber moves to McKeesport
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By NYA O'NEAL noneal@yourmvi.com 
July 19, 2024
The organization hopes to promote redevelopment in the downtown area. The Mon Yough Area Chamber of Commerce has moved to a new location. The organization, previously located near the Olympia Shopping...
Ready-to-drink cocktails will soon be available in stores
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By LADIMIR GARCIA lgarcia@yourmvi.com 
July 19, 2024
Val’s Beer Distributor will be among the area locations to stock them. Gov. Josh Shapiro signed a bill on Wednesday that would allow Pennsylvanians to buy ready-to-drink cocktails from their local gro...
Hundreds gather in honor of Corey Comperatore
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July 19, 2024
By JACK TROY, NADIA COMMODORE and TAWNYA PANIZZI Trib Total Media They came from as far away as Arizona and Brooklyn, N.Y. on Thursday to honor the life of Corey Comperatore, a husband, father and for...
Politics
July 19, 2024
AN UNPRECEDENTED STRAIN of bird flu is spreading among dairy cattle in the U.S.An outbreak of a flesh-eating bacteria has infected more than 1,000 people in Japan. At least 13 communicable diseases in...
Thinking like a camera
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July 19, 2024
After Donald Trump was almost killed by a sniper, he didn’t hide behind his Secret Service protectors. He struggled to his feet, looked directly at the photographers who were frantically trying to rec...
Shooting was real; aftermath is all theater
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July 19, 2024
“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster,” Friedrich Nietzsche famously wrote. “And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.” ...
Women in Leadership series empowers, unites local women
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By CLOE LOOSZ For the MVI 
July 19, 2024
More than 180 women from around the area attended the sold-out event. Another sold-out crowd attended the second Women in Leadership series, bringing together women from around the area to network, le...
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July 19, 2024
“I had God on my side,” he told the convention. MILWAUKEE (AP) — Donald Trump, somber and bandaged, accepted the GOP presidential nomination on Thursday at the Republican National Convention in a spee...