By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Joe Klimchak, in-game host for the Pittsburgh Pirates, is just an ordinary guy who happened to land an extraordinary dream job.   Klimchak visited Monessen High Scho...

By Jeff Himler Trib Total Media Someone who purchased a Mega Millions lottery ticket in Rostraver Township is $1 million richer. A ticket sold at the Shop ‘n Save supermarket at Willowbrook Plaza matc...

Belle Vernon Area head coach Matt Humbert and Quinton Martin (25) are soaked with Gatorade after the Leopards defeated Neumann-Goretti on Saturday for the PIAA Class 3A championship.  

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com The Pittsburgh-based Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) will hold a free virtual event Wednesday focusing on the Donora Smog of 1948. The event, called “Ma...

By JOHN RECTENWALD jrectenwald@yourmvi.com A North Charleroi mother is looking for help to identify the driver of a car that plowed into and damaged a wheelchair ramp her son uses to access their home...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A nut roll recipe typed on onion-skin paper found nestled in a recipe book of Martha Diess was put to good use last week. Parishioners from St. Andrew the Apostle ga...

By JEFF STITT   jstitt@yourmvi.com Career and technical training was a topic of discussion at the McKeesport Area School Board meeting last week. During public comment, the board again heard from a lo...

Theodore Turosik and his sister, Helena Turosik, of California got to meet Santa at the California Holly Day Parade and Celebration Friday night at the new Hollywood Pavilion.  

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com After a contentious, five-hour preliminary hearing Friday in Washington County Central Court, a 29-year-old Charleroi man was ordered to stand trial on firearms a...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Monessen’s First Christian Church won’t be the same after Sunday’s service. It will be the last time that Pastor Conrad Auel will deliver a sermon at the church after ...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Donora council voted to advertise the 2023 budget, address borough staffing shortages and jousted with the public during their monthly meeting Thursday. The pro...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Belle Vernon’s Hoods Up Quick Lube is looking to spread some holiday cheer with the announcement of a gift-donating initiative. The company announced the Stuff a Race ...

By JOHN RECTENWALD jrectenwald@yourmvi.com More than 350 kids will receive Christmas gifts thanks to Rostraver Police Department’s Santa Cop Program.   The highly coordinated effort exceeded expectati...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Monessen City Council’s meeting Thursday was held just hours after the viewing for shooting victim Amari Altomore, and the 16-year-old’s family, life and death we...

By MAX ROBINETTE mrobinette@yourmvi.com Donora council voted to overrule the suspension of a police officer Thursday, reimbursing him for three days of lost pay and eight hours of overtime. Mayor Don ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com With conversations of a potential sale looming, the Authority of the Borough of Charleroi has presented an offer to borough officials — but the offer isn’t what it o...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport Area School Board made history Wednesday during its reorganization meeting as it named LaToya Wright Brown as the new board president. Wright Brown, who is ...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Naomi Outreach had its final gathering of the year Wednesday afternoon at the Clubhouse Grille at Cedarbrook Golf Course in Rostraver Township. Naomi Outreach s...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Anyone who has spent anytime at a Monessen Council meeting this year knows the theme for Mayor Ron Mozer’s administration has been “working together.” Over the pa...

By JOHN RECTENWALD jrectenwald@yourmvi.com The Belle Vernon Area marching band will ride first-class to Mechanicsburg on the school district’s dime after all. BVA’s board of directors met virtually We...