Traveling in style at the Mutt March
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By Mon Valley Independent 
May 3, 2021
David Greenwald of Elizabeth takes Walter for a ride during Satur-day’s Mutt March, sponsored by the Monongahela Area Revitalization Corporation.
Communities setting food truck restrictions
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May 3, 2021
By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The City of Monessen will join some other area municipalities in passing a food-truck ordinance before the summer months arrive. Monessen council decided it makes...
Rostraver Historical Society back in business
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May 3, 2021
By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com After being closed for most of the past year due to COVID-19 restrictions, the Rostraver Township Historical Society is beginning to return to normal. The histo...
Area bridal shop will host in-store boutique
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May 3, 2021
By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com An independently owned Washington County bridal shop has been given a unique opportunity.   Bella Sposa Bridal, Prom & Tux, located in Washington, will be one of abo...
Rostraver Ice Garden will host comedy show
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May 3, 2021
By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Do headlines filled with politics, protests and pandemics have you feeling down in the dumps? Comedians David Kaye, Tracie Jayne and Steve Hofstetter may hav...
Project set at Atlas building site
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April 30, 2021
By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Four years after bricks from the former Atlas building began to fall, a new development will begin at the site in   downtown Charleroi. On Friday, the Mon Valley All...
U.S. Steel cancels upgrades to Mon Valley Works
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April 30, 2021
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com After providing hope that the Valley could soon be home to a state-of-the-art and more environmentally friendly steelmaking facility, U.S. Steel announced it has cance...
Greek Orthodox Church marks Holy Friday
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April 30, 2021
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Members of the Annunciation of the Theotokos Greek Orthodox Church in White Oak are marking Jesus Christ’s journey to the cross, his death and resurrection this weeken...
Addams Family is quarantined in California’s spring musical
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April 30, 2021
By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Art will imitate life for California High School students performing in the district’s upcoming musical. The school’s production of “The Addams Family Quaran...
Public sessions set on proposed Elizabeth Township power plant
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April 30, 2021
By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Area residents will have a chance to ask questions and get answers Tuesday at a public meeting about a proposed power plant in Elizabeth Township. “The Alleghen...
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April 30, 2021
By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com In Washington County, there aren’t many contested primary races at the local level, but there will be a few races in November.   There are also a number of races ...
Beautifying Charleroi
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April 30, 2021
Ellie Clash, Will Wagner, Bradley McIlvaine and Leah Stein, all members of the National Honor Society at Charleroi Area High School, planted flowers Thursday during Charleroi’s borough-wide cleanup da...
Fire chief: No ‘super arsonist’ in Monessen
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April 29, 2021
By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Monessen Municipal Fire Chief Delmar Hepple doesn’t want residents to be afraid after a recent string of fires in the city.   In less than two weeks, city firefighte...
Questions still surround potential Cal U merger
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April 29, 2021
By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com A meeting Thursday involving members of the state Senate Appropriations and Education committees and the chancellor of the State System of Higher Education has ...
Back on the dance floor after a year away
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April 29, 2021
By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com After a year-long hiatus, a group of Mon Valley residents will put on their dancing shoes and head back to Mariner’s Hall in Dunlevy this weekend. The PT Cruisers, a...
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April 29, 2021
By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Rostraver Township Commissioners are expected to vote next week on an agreement with the Washington County District Attorney’s office to install a license p...
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April 29, 2021
By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Restaurant and hospitality business owners in the Mon Valley will be happy to know a new grant is available to help them rebound from COVID-19 shutdowns and ...
Clairton concession stand project funded
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April 29, 2021
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A new concession stand is coming to the baseball fields at Clairton-Resident Park thanks to two area corporate partners, Pennsylvania American Water Company and U.S. S...
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April 29, 2021
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com On Christmas Eve 2018, there was a fire at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works, the largest coke plant in the world. A study released Wednesday by the University of Pitts...