Twilight friends show support for police with custom sign
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By Stacy Wolford 
March 21, 2021
By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Four friends in Twilight waited nearly a year to deliver a handmade sign to Charleroi Regional Police officers. Residents John Otto, Dave Jones, Joe Smith and Greg D...
Hundreds vaccinated at Monessen clinic
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By Mon Valley Independent 
March 19, 2021
By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com The Monessen High School gymnasium was a hub of activity Friday for people seeking the COVID-19 vaccine. Monongahela Valley Hospital brought 400 doses of the...
Firefighter expects to attend benefit
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By Mon Valley Independent 
March 19, 2021
By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Sound the alarm! After nearly a month in the hospital, Monessen No. 1 firefighter Nate Lynch will be home in time to personally thank friends and family members duri...
Engineering survey OK’d for former Ringgold school
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By Mon Valley Independent 
March 19, 2021
By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Ringgold School District officials will move forward with their plans to subdivide — or even demolish — the district’s abandoned middle school building on Ro...
State, local COVID-19 numbers rising again
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By Mon Valley Independent 
March 19, 2021
By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The week ended with a jump in new COVID-19 cases both statewide and in local counties. Westmoreland County added 123 new cases, which is the most in a single day ...
Elizabeth Twp. plans Easter Egg Parade
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By Mon Valley Independent 
March 19, 2021
By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com It’s a   parade without floats, a hunt without searching and Easter Bunny visits without contact,   but that won’t make the 2021 Elizabeth Township Easter Egg P...
BVA may restructure energy lease contract
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By Mon Valley Independent 
March 19, 2021
By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Historically low interest rates could mean a $250,000 savings for the Belle Vernon Area School District. During a work session this week, financial advisor Chri...
Good day for reading
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By Mon Valley Independent 
March 18, 2021
Toni Zbyl, a librarian at Charleroi Area Public Library, checks out a book for Tom Nutting of Charleroi on a rainy Thursday afternoon.
SA announces plans for new athletic complex
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By Mon Valley Independent 
March 18, 2021
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A sporting facility in Glassport that’s more than 70 years old will cease being the athletic home for the South Allegheny Gladiators in the near future. The school dis...
Washington County: Hospitals cite progress in COVID-19 fight
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By Mon Valley Independent 
March 18, 2021
By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Washington County hospitals know they have an important job to do. Throughout the course of the COVID-19 pandemic that started last March, officials have been tasked...
Vice chair outlines grievances with Monessen’s rec board
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By Mon Valley Independent 
March 18, 2021
By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Despite having three of its five members resign Wednesday, the remaining members of the Monessen Recreation Board chose to hold its regularly scheduled meeting th...
Students make blankets for the elderly
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By Mon Valley Independent 
March 18, 2021
By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com The Residence at Hilltop in Carroll Township received a pleasant surprise recently. Students from California Area High School told the assisted living facili...
McKeesport Area plans to hold a prom this year
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By Stacy Wolford 
March 17, 2021
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport Area School District is planning to hold a prom this year. During the virtual agenda workshop meeting Wednesday, board President Joe Lopretto revealed the b...
Ringgold High School renovation plans moving forward
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By Stacy Wolford 
March 17, 2021
By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com The Ringgold School District continues to move forward with its plans to renovate the high school’s natatorium and swimming pool area. On Wednesday night, sc...
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By Stacy Wolford 
March 17, 2021
By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Rostraver businesses with mechanical devices including various types of vending machines, may be seeing a refund of all or part of their mechanical device tax f...
Mon Valley Paws to host dog/cat food drive
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By Stacy Wolford 
March 17, 2021
By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Mon Valley Paws plans to hold a dog or cat food drive that starts Monday at Monessen Public Library. Food drive Chairwoman Sharon Lewgood said in July 2019, the m...
3 Monessen recreation board members resign
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By Stacy Wolford 
March 17, 2021
By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Six weeks after it began, the “drama” surrounding the Monessen Recreation Board has seemingly come to an end after three members abruptly resigned Wednesday after...
COVID-19 vaccine brought to ‘under-resourced communities’
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By Mon Valley Independent 
March 16, 2021
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Hundreds of people who live in McKeesport and surrounding Mon Valley communities got their first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday during a “community vacci...