Old-fashioned firefighting display set in Monongahela
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By Stacy Wolford 
August 6, 2021
By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Today’s firefighters have access to modern and cutting-edge firefighting technology and equipment that requires hours of training and preparation. But for th...
MARC 5K Run/Walk: Kids challenged to ‘Beat the Chief’
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By Stacy Wolford 
August 6, 2021
By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com This Saturday, kids under 18 will have a chance to beat a cop. And get some free ice cream in the process. Saturday’s Monongahela Area Revitalization Corpora...
McKeesport Area to permit public back into board meetings
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By Stacy Wolford 
August 6, 2021
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com After streaming its meetings live via YouTube since the COVID-19 pandemic began, McKeesport Area School Board will welcome audiences back to the board room starting wi...
Rostraver rejects compressed  natural gas filling station
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By Jeremy Sellew 
August 5, 2021
By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The land development plan for a compressed natural gas (CNG) filling station off of Tyrol Boulevard was rejected Wednesday by the Rostraver Township Commissione...
Wolf extends opioid disaster declaration
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By Jeremy Sellew 
August 5, 2021
By CHRISTINE HAINES and JEFF STITT chaines@yourmvi.com jstitt@yourmvi.com Gov. Tom Wolf on Wednesday signed the 15th renewal of his January 2018 opioid disaster declaration to help the state fight the...
McKeesport Area to vote on health and safety plan next week
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By Jeremy Sellew 
August 5, 2021
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport Area School Board will vote next week on the 2021-22 district health and safety plan. The American Rescue Plan Act requires each school district receiving f...
Carroll Township talks MS4 plans
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By Jeremy Sellew 
August 5, 2021
By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com Carroll Township supervisors addressed a newly implemented Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System — also k...
New Saints Joachim and Anne Parish to host summer festival
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By Stacy Wolford 
August 4, 2021
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Community collaboration is key for a local Catholic parish’s summer festival. After taking a year off due to coronavirus pandemic restrictions, the Saints Joachim and ...
Mon Valley Rowing Club seeking new participants
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By Stacy Wolford 
August 4, 2021
By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com The Mon Valley Rowing Club is looking for new recruits. The club was brought to the Mon Valley by Nathanael Stevens nearly three years ago, but it took awhile to get...
Washington County fair is bringing back old favorites
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By Stacy Wolford 
August 4, 2021
By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com It may have been much smaller in scale last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but attendees to this year’s Washington County Agricultural Fair will be happy...
Valley homicide suspects to appear in court Monday
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By Stacy Wolford 
August 4, 2021
By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Two men are charged with homicide in cases that remain under seal, but will be made public in preliminary hearings set for Monday in Washington County Court. The ...
Missing girl found in Carroll Twp.
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By Mon Valley Independent 
August 3, 2021
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A young girl who ran away from a summer youth program at the Mon Valley YMCA was only missing for a short time Monday thanks to the efforts of area first responders. M...
Monessen audit doesn’t suggest intentional mismanagement
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By Mon Valley Independent 
August 3, 2021
By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The 2019 audit of Monessen’s finances is complete and it doesn’t point to the type of widespread financial mismanagement that has been alleged by some council mem...
COVID spread ‘substantial’ now in some area counties
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By Mon Valley Independent 
August 3, 2021
By JULIA FELTON Trib Total Media Nine Western Pennsylvania counties are experiencing “substantial” levels of COVID-19 transmission that fall under federal recommendations calling for people to wear ma...
Monongahela: Police have new safety vests
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By Mon Valley Independent 
August 3, 2021
By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com After a two-year wait, the Monongahela Police Department has received its new tactical vests. The vests recently arrived, and police Chief Kevin Harris joine...