By JIM BUSCH For the MVI On Sunday diners packed the tables and booths of the Blue Flame Restaurant one last time.   The restaurant, which was founded by Les George in October 1956, recently announced...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com Union Railroad Company, a subsidiary of Transtar, LLC, opened the latest North American railroad freight car shop in Duquesne’s industrial district. The facilit...

By Sarah Pellis spellis@yourmvi.com Belle Vernon Area School District is among the participants in the Teacher In The Workplace program. The Pennsylvania Department of Education grant program helps co...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com The Athene Club of Charleroi is preparing for its 76th annual Senior Girls Tea.   Founded in 1902 and named for the Greek goddess of wisdom, the club...

Monessen’s Damari Martin (Patrick Star) and Chassidy Hodge (SpongeBob) perform a scene from “The SpongeBob Musical.”   To purchase this photo and more from our online photo gallery, go to our website ...

By TAYLOR BROWN   Senior Reporter   tbrown@yourmvi.com   Betty Ambler Park keeps getting better, and township officials, friends and neighbors celebrated Friday with a ribbon-cutting for the newest up...

At the Friday fish fry at Saint Katharine Drexel Parish in Bentleyville, in front from left, are Patty McKean, Ruth DiNardo, Sue Arleth, Jessica Besedick, AnnaMarie Glowaski, Judy Lowman, Debbie Kalli...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com A Monongahela resident proposed opening a Bible ministry mentoring program for elementary students in the district at Ringgold School Board’s Wednesday meeting....

By JIM BUSCH For the MVI Numerous South Allegheny School District students were recognized by the school board Thursday for academic achievements. District Superintendent David McDonald announced the ...

Monessen Elementary Center had a special visitor Wednesday. Kindergarten students Camden Sloan, Laina Johnson and Emmitt Schoss got to see the Easter Bunny and receive an egg from him. To purchase thi...

By JUSTIN VELLUCCI Trib Total Media Nenita Kalkbrenner sat in a Pittsburgh courtroom Thursday as the man charged with crashing into a school van and killing her 15-year-old daughter, Samantha, while d...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com It will all fall down at two Belle Vernon Area elementary schools next week — and we’re not talking about students singing a nursery rhyme.   A domin...

For the MVI   The Washington County Board of Commissioners approved a blight mitigation and demolition fund program at Thursday’s meeting. The approved funds are directed from the American Rescue Plan...

By Sarah Pellis spellis@yourmvi.com Rostraver Township officials expressed their frustrations with PennDOT during a workshop meeting Wednesday where they discussed some of the ongoing projects in the ...

Jeff Helsel / Mon Valley Independent The Mon River Arts Youth Theatre will present “Finding Nemo Jr.” at the Grand Theatre in Elizabeth. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Friday, and 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Saturday...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com Washington City Mission’s application for 2024 Local Share Account funds will be approved after all. Washington County’s LSA review committee, at the...

By Sarah Pellis spellis@yourmvi.com Michael Wetzel of Victor-Wetzel Associates and Paul Scarmazzi of Scarmazzi Homes met with Rostraver commissioners Wednesday to discuss the possible preliminary phas...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com Ringgold School District is looking for ways to properly support its growing population of special education students, as Superintendent Randall Skrinjorich rev...

By RALPH STONE MVI columnist Today marks the 37th day of the 2024 Lenten season. During these past 90 years, I’ve discovered that there are two periods within each year when many of us attempt to make...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter   tbrown@yourmvi.com Monessen’s stage will transform into the fantastical, fictional under the sea world of Bikini Bottom when students present “The SpongeBob Musical” ...