Missile attack survivors keep promise to remember fallen
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February 26, 2021
By Jacob Tierney Trib Total Media Thursday’s memorial service for Hempfield’s 14th Quartermaster Detachment was both somber and joyful, a time for mourning those lost while catching up with old friend...
Area bank branches are set to close soon
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February 26, 2021
By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The financial scene in the Mon Valley is changing. On Tuesday, Community Bank announced its intention to consolidate six branch offices in response to changing banki...
Shorraw removes councilman as Monessen’s rec board liaison
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February 26, 2021
By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The mayor of Monessen decided to remove a councilman as liaison to a board this month because he felt there was too much “drama.” Mayor Matt Shorraw made a motion...
Police following leads after fatal shooting
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 26, 2021
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com State police are looking into several leads in hopes of determining who was responsible for a shooting that left one man dead in Donora Wednesday evening.   Trooper Ro...
MVH awards gala will be virtual this year
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February 26, 2021
By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com After canceling last year’s annual gala due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mon Valley Hospital Foundation is going virtual this year with one of its biggest f...
McKeesport: Virtual learning concerns addressed
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February 26, 2021
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport Area School District Superintendent Dr. Mark Holtzman and the school board had a frank conversation about issues with virtual learning at Wednesday’s meetin...
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February 26, 2021
By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com A Rostraver business can’t give its money away, at least not to the township. Noble Environmental, which does business at 111 Conner Lane along with County Haul...
Census could stall the redrawing of  legislative districts
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February 25, 2021
By TAYLOR BROWN JEFF STITT & CHRISTINE HAINES It’s possible that the next set of district lines for Congress and the state Pennsylvania Legislature won’t be hammered out until May 2022 due to a delay ...
Man fatally wounded in shooting
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February 25, 2021
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Emotions were high Wednesday evening near the scene of a fatal shooting at a convenience store in Donora. Washington County Coroner S. Timothy Warco identified the vic...
Fallowfield sympathizes with Clinton Twp. after weekend garage fire
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February 25, 2021
By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Fallowfield Township is offering up advice to a township in Butler County that lost nearly all of its equipment in a garage fire over the weekend. Supervisor Bruce S...
Rostraver Township food truck ordinance under construction
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February 25, 2021
By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Food trucks will be permitted in Rostraver Township this summer, but the details of the regulation covering those trucks is still being discussed. At the planni...
WPIAL brackets released
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 23, 2021
B.J. Pugh and Bob Pugh check the WPIAL playoff brackets Tuesday evening during Thomas Jefferson’s basketball game against Trinity.
Regional health department considered
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 23, 2021
By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Commissioners in Washington County are frustrated with how the Pennsylvania Department of Health has provided information and guidance about the COVID-19 pan...
EF receives national award for technology
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February 23, 2021
By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Elizabeth Forward School District brought home national honors from this year’s Virtual National Conference on Digital Convergence. The district was named t...
1.47M received vaccine  in Pa.
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February 23, 2021
By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Pennsylvania has gotten at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot into the arms of 1.47 million residents so far. Nearly 915,000 have been partially vaccinated and almos...
New gear for Stockdale firefighters
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February 23, 2021
By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Firefighters in Stockdale may look a bit different on the scene of their next call, thanks to a $92,000 Assistance to Firefighters Grant. AFG grants, administered th...
Elizabeth: Fire department considers charging for parking lot
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February 23, 2021
By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com As many as 50 cars a day park in the unpaved lots owned by the Elizabeth Borough Volunteer Fire Company each day, and the fire department sees the situation as ...
Donation leads to first bridal fair at St. Vincent de Paul
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February 22, 2021
By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com St. Vincent de Paul hopes to make planning a wedding for brides on a budget a little easier this weekend. On Saturday and Sunday, the thrift store will open its soci...
Monessen OKs board to review property blight
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February 22, 2021
By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The City of Monessen has re-established its blighted property review board and will accept applications for three open seats. Council approved the ordinance that ...