By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Being a Boy Scout is serious business to Michael Falappi. A 2020 Ringgold High School graduate, Falappi recently achieved the rank of Eagle Scout, the highes...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The Mon Valley Initiative has been awarded a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development grant to support quality housing counseling services in the Mon Valley re...

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com Elizabeth Borough Council is taking steps to improve the quality of life in the borough by addressing blight and other issues. Council held a demolition hearing...

Maddox Dinkel, 2, of Belle Vernon, Miley Ralston, 2, of Clairton and Mark Ralston, 7, of Clairton dressed up for Monday’s Halloween parade in Elizabeth

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com With Westmoreland County remaining in the substantial category for COVID-19 cases for the second week in a row, the Belle Vernon Area School Board has adopted a...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com As Westmoreland County enters its second week of having substantial transmission of COVID-19, the state recommended Monday that all schools switch to remote learn...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Belle Vernon Public Library recently received much-needed support from two community organizations. The North Belle Vernon Rec Commission, represented by Lynn So...

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com The Blaine Hill Volunteer Fire Company’s Quick Response Service is certified for another three years of operation following a state inspection this past week. “...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com With Halloween around the corner, people are looking for scary stories and frightening folklore to add enjoyment to the season. But what if those stories wer...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Helen D’Alfonso doesn’t remember the last time she visited Monessen. But Sunday, as she stood in front of the newly renamed Lt. Col. Edward D’Alfonso Memorial Amphit...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A 7-year-old McKeesport resident who dreams of being a police officer spent time with some of the men and women who keep his city safe on Saturday. To show he cares ab...

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com After more than six months of being open by appointment only, the Rostraver Township Historical Society Sunday is throwing open the doors to its museum for an o...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Clairton will be in the spotlight next month when WQED airs its latest documentary “Starved: Our Food Insecurity Crisis.” The documentary examines food insec...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The A.P. Delsandro Memorial in Donora has stood in memory of former mayor Albert P. Delsandro since the mid-1980s, and the committee to maintain it is in its 36th...

Tiberius Ten was named king and Paige Myers was crowned queen at Elizabeth Forward’s homecoming ceremony Friday night.

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Rostraver Township has been fined $59,000 by the state Department of Environmental Protection. The fine was imposed for violat...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A Monessen couple and their dogs have been displaced from their home after a structure fire early Friday. Monessen Municipal Fire Chief Delmar Hepple said crews were...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Bar and restaurant owners battling tightening COVID-19 restrictions may have a little relief next year. On Thursday, Gov. Tom Wolf announced a plan to waive liquor l...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The Monongahela Rotary is the latest community organization to make a donation to the City of Monongahela’s Police Vest Fund.   The Rotary Club donated $500 to th...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com White Oak Mayor Ina Jean Marton reminded residents at this week’s council meeting that two polling places in the borough have changed for the Nov. 3 general election. ...