Health issues force Rapp to resign as supervisor
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CARROLL TOWNSHIP
By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
September 4, 2024
He has a long legacy of service in the township after first being elected in 1985. After more than three decades as a supervisor in Carroll Township, Tom Rapp has decided to step down from the positio...
Monessen school board hears report on recommended facility upgrades
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By MICHAEL RICHTER, mrichter@yourmvi.com 
September 4, 2024
ABM Industries, which inspected the district’s buildings, will compile cost estimates. ABM Industries conducted a presentation before the Monessen school board Tuesday regarding potential facility upg...
Pa. observing National Blood Donation Day
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By SARAH PELLIS spellis@yourmvi.com 
September 4, 2024
It was declared in response to a nationwide shortage of blood. Gov. Josh Shapiro has declared today National Blood Donation Day, according to the American Red Cross, which invites Pennsylvanians to co...
Hamilton out as register of wills
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By RICH CHOLODOFSKY Trib Total Media 
September 4, 2024
The tumultuous tenure of Westmoreland County Register of Wills Sherry Magretti Hamilton ended Tuesday. Hamilton, 47, of Hempfield, officially walked away from the elected position she has held since J...
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September 4, 2024
HOW HARD IS IT TO REPORT suspected sexual abuse of a minor? In recent years, we have been buried under an absolute avalanche of proof that children have been sexually abused, if not outright raped, by...
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September 4, 2024
By STEVE PEOPLES, THOMAS BEAUMONT AND AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Associated Press LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — After a summer of historic tumult, the path to the presidency for both Kamala Harris and Donald Tru...
Harris, Trump, and Arlington cemetery
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September 4, 2024
It looks like the fight between the Harris and Trump campaigns over former President Donald Trump‘s appearance at Arlington National Cemetery is intensifying, not diminishing. Vice President Kamala Ha...
Around The Valley
By By PATRICK VARINE Trib Total Media 
September 4, 2024
Police said witnesses also provided information that incriminated 17-yearold Daemond Artemus. A McKeesport teenager has been arrested and charged with a fatal shooting Monday in the city. Allegheny Co...
Around The Valley
September 4, 2024
By the MVI A McKeesport man was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating a federal firearms law, U.S. Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced Tuesday. The one-count indictment...
LABOR DAY WEEKEND FUN AT RENZIE RIB FEST
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September 3, 2024
The annual Renzie Rib Fest finished up Monday night with music, fireworks, and of course, lots of barbecue ribs and other food. Shown at the TKO Gyros, Fries and More booth, from left, are Jody Goughn...
McKeesport church to hold end-of-summer barbecue
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By SARAH PELLIS spellis@yourmvi.com 
September 3, 2024
It will take place Saturday afternoon at Mt. Vernon Community Presbyterian Church on Greenock Buena Vista Road. The end of summer is here, and a McKeesport church is saying goodbye to the season with ...
BVA investigates online school threat
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By LADIMIR GARCIA lgarcia@yourmvi.com 
September 3, 2024
The Belle Vernon Area School District responded last week to an online threat targeted at BVA High School. The threat was made through the social media platform Snapchat, prompting an investigation in...
North Belle Vernon concerned about road damage from heavy loads
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September 3, 2024
By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com North Belle Vernon officials are worried about heavy loads detouring through the borough when work begins at the Arnold City interchange with Interst...
Family expresses gratitude for help in finding 2-year-old
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
September 3, 2024
Numerous first responders and local residents joined in the search for the missing child last week. The family of a 2-year-old who went missing last week in Allenport offered thanks to first responder...
Nonprofit gives adaptive strollers to 3 families
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September 3, 2024
A Monessen family was one of the recipients from the donations by Variety the Children’s Charity of Pittsburgh. By QUINCEY REESE Trib Total Media Tears filled Melanie Skibicki’s eyes as she sat in the...
Local leaders react to Harris’ opposition of sale of U.S. Steel to a Japanese firm
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By MICHAEL RICHTER, mrichter@yourmvi.com 
September 3, 2024
The vice president campaigned in Pittsburgh on Labor Day alongside President Joe Biden. In a campaign visit to Pittsburgh Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris opposed the pending sale of U.S. Steel to...
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September 3, 2024
LAST WEDNESDAY, NIPPON STEEL made a promise. The Japanese giant would invest “no less than $1 billion” into the U.S. Steel operations in the Greater Pittsburgh area. “Nippon Steel believes that a tran...
New rules for radicals: How to reinvent Harris
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September 3, 2024
How do accomplished radicals elect a mediocre far-left presidential candidate? The task might at first seem impossible. Kamala Harris is currently a radical incumbent vice president. For more than thr...