Local student to work at Super Bowl LVIII
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 3, 2024
By MATT PETRAS For the MVI Roscoe resident Sydney Smichnick, a senior at Penn   State University, will travel to Las Vegas next week to do public relations work for the NFL leading up to the Super Bow...
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February 3, 2024
By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com Carnegie Library of McKeesport will prepare and serve a free hot meal to the public on the first Tuesday of each month. The meal, which includes stew, bread and...
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February 3, 2024
By TAYLOR BROWN   Senior Reporter   tbrown@yourmvi.com Applications are being accepted for Community Foundation of Fayette County’s post-secondary scholarships.   CFFC scholarship opportunities are ma...
Donora debates MMVTA rep
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 2, 2024
By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com It sounds like Donora Council is going to put the issue of who will be the borough’s representative for the Mid Mon Valley Transit Authority up for a vote, potent...
Fallowfield Twp. representative for MMVTA board resigns
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 2, 2024
By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com Fallowfield Township supervisors will soon select a new person to represent the community on the Mid Mon Valley Transit Authority board of directors....
100th day workout
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By Stacy Wolford 
February 1, 2024
Jeff Helsel / Mon Valley Independent California Area School Elementary first-graders Nolan Hasbrouck, Teegan Harned, Tara Masaitis and Camden Juarez run in place for 100 seconds with their classmates ...
Hoops through the years: Remembering the Valley’s best
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By Stacy Wolford 
February 1, 2024
By RALPH STONE MVI columnist Once upon a season there were open-ended tar buckets, bushel baskets, and actual basketball rims hanging from telephone poles, tree trunks and garage doors all over the st...
Game night with dad
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 31, 2024
Jacob Brown and his 7-month-old son, Jordy, watched the Elizabeth Forward boys basketball game Tuesday evening. To purchase this photo and more from our online photo gallery, go to our website at www....
LSA funds sought for Donora memorial
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 31, 2024
By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The AP Delsandro Committee has applied for grant funds through the Washington County LSA program to enter the third phase of its renovation project. The AP Delsan...
Century III Mall owners charged
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 31, 2024
By Justin Vellucci Trib Total Media The owners of the blighted Century III Mall were charged Tuesday in a move by Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala to seize ownership and demolish the...
Authors to discuss ‘Punxsutawney Phil’ book
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 31, 2024
By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com Carnegie Library of McKeesport will host a meet-and-greet and book-signing with Rob Long and Andrew Dolberg authors of “The Great Weather Diviner: The Untold Or...
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 31, 2024
By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com Mon Valley Academy for the Arts will host a first-of-its-kind language class. Last week, the MVAA announced the addition of “Aventuras en Español,” t...
Another Shoulder offers hope to cancer patients
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January 30, 2024
By MICHAEL RICHTER mrichter@yourmvi.com When Larry Bridges endured his first bout of cancer in 2017, he wasn’t aware of the bell-ringing tradition for those who finish chemotherapy or radiation treatm...
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January 30, 2024
By RICH CHOLODOFSKY Trib Total Media More than 500 Westmoreland County courthouse and nursing home employees ratified a union contract Monday. Approval of the three-year deal averted a strike that wou...
Port Vue residents speak out against PAWC rate hike
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 30, 2024
By JIM BUSCH For the MVI Public officials and other speakers voiced their opposition to a proposed rate hike by Pennsylvania American Water Company at a public hearing Monday in Port Vue. Emily DeVoe,...