By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com Fallowfield Township supervisors unanimously agreed to pass a new resolution Wednesday that will help the Alta Vista Business Park in Fallowfield Tow...

By RALPH STONE MVI columnist Back in the school year of 1938-39 I was a first-grader at the Iowa Elementary School, the same spot on the corner of Oneida Street and Schoonmaker Avenue where a high ris...

By the MVI Eleven McClellan Elementary School students were recognized by the West Jefferson Hills School District Board for their PTA Reflections creations during Tuesday’s monthly meeting. McClellan...

Sue Crafton of Stockdale played bingo Tuesday evening at the Stockdale Volunteer Fire Department. To purchase this photo and more from our online photo gallery, go to our website at www.monvalleyindep...

By Sarah Pellis spellis@yourmvi.com A Westmoreland County judge has upheld a decision issued last year by the Rostraver Township Zoning Hearing Board to deny a special request by Olympus Energy to bui...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com McKeesport has been awarded a $1.8 million grant from the state for the replacement of the Versailles Avenue Bridge.   The multimodal grant was approved during ...

By the MVI Several legislators representing Mon Valley communities announced state funding for projects around the area Tuesday, along with grants for local fire departments to purchase much-needed eq...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter   tbrown@yourmvi.com After a little less than three months on patrol in Elizabeth Borough, council members, residents and business owners are happy with the service bei...

By STACY WOLFORD swolford@yourmvi.com “... I get by with a little help from my friends.” — The Beatles. For more than six decades, friends have been meeting at Russ’ Tavern for a cold one after work, ...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com Union Railroad Company, LLC purchased a 13-acre parcel in Duquesne for $400,000 from the Regional Industrial Development Corporation of Southwestern Pennsylvani...

California Area baseball players Logan Hartley, Parker Gillen and Spencer Petrucci sign copies of their team’s trading cards for first-grader Layla Tomaino. Each player got 100 custom-designed trading...

By Sarah Pellis spellis@yourmvi.com Multiple students were honored, recognized or gave presentations at Monday’s regular voting meeting for Belle Vernon Area School District. Belle Vernon Area Middle ...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com A California Area Middle School student hopes to be inducted into the National Junior Honor Society — in the meantime he’s done something to help his...

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...