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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 24, 2020
For the MVI The Mid Mon Valley Cultural Trust is partnering with the State Theatre Center for the Arts in Uniontown to bring the five Oscar-nominated short films in both the live action and animation ...
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 24, 2020
By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com A Monongahela couple is in the Washington County jail after they allegedly got into a booze-fueled brawl that ended with the wife trying to rip off her husba...
PennDOT closes Bunola River Road after drivers ignore traffic light
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By Stacy Wolford 
January 22, 2020
By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A portion of Bunola River Road in Forward Township will close indefinitely beginning today. According to Forward Township police, the road will be closed between Reg...
Chimney fire in Monessen
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By Stacy Wolford 
January 22, 2020
Photo courtesy of Monessen No. 1 Fire Dept. A Monessen house located on the 1100 block of State Street was damaged following a chimney fire Wednesday afternoon. Monessen No. 1, Monessen Hilltop and Ch...
Round Hill Park welcomes new bull calf to farm exhibit
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By Stacy Wolford 
January 22, 2020
By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Rudy loves to run down the halls in the dairy barn, or any where else his hooves will lead him. The Brown Swiss bull calf was born at Round Hill Park 6:35 p.m. ...
Pirate Pierogies visit Ringgold
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By Stacy Wolford 
January 22, 2020
Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent The Pirate Pierogies stopped by Ringgold High School Wednesday as part of a special visit by several Pittsburgh Pirates. Shown with a few of the Pierogie mascot...
McKeesport Area School Board hires 2 police officers
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By Stacy Wolford 
January 22, 2020
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport Area School Board hired two police officers for the district run police force. Board directors Joe Lopretto, Mindy Sturgess, James Brown, Tom Filotei, Ivan ...
Showing off their spots
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 22, 2020
Mike Darnay / For the Mon Valley Independent Thomas Jefferson boys basketball head coach Dom DeCicco’s wife and twin daughters showed their support by wearing jaguar apparel to Tuesday’s game. From le...
Monessen police presence at meeting blasted as ‘intimidation’
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 22, 2020
By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com Three Monessen police officers, along with City Administrator John Harhai and Councilman Gil Coles, attended Tuesday night’s Redevelopment Authority Board...
Arson alleged in Elizabeth fire
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 22, 2020
By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com An Elizabeth man is being held at the Allegheny County Jail on charges of arson following a fire Tuesday morning in Elizabeth. The Elizabeth Borough Police Depa...
Belle Vernon seeks local, public meeting over Route 906 closure
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 22, 2020
By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com Belle Vernon Borough Solicitor Krisha DiMascio said plans to arrange a local and public meeting with PennDOT concerning the Route 906 closure have been un...
Rep. Kortz will retire after current term
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 22, 2020
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com State Rep. Bill Kortz, a Democrat who represents Pennsylvania’s 38th Legislative District, announced Tuesday that he will retire at the end of November. Kortz, 66, of ...
Charleroi Area making security-related changes
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 22, 2020
By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Charleroi Area School District is taking a close look at its security measures following an in-depth study conducted by the Pennsylvania State Police. “It w...
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 22, 2020
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Nikki Calloway, a mental health counselor at UPMC McKeesport, understands the “questions and frustrations associated with living with an individual with a substance ab...
Beloved retired Charleroi K-9 Rex dies
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By Stacy Wolford 
January 20, 2020
By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Charleroi Regional Police Department is mourning the death of one of their own — retired K-9 Officer Rex. Rex, 14, died Monday. The beloved canine was taken to F...
Washington County Judge Traci McDonald Kemp honors MLK
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By Stacy Wolford 
January 20, 2020
By Matt Petras For the Mon Valley Independent Washington County Court of Common Pleas Judge Traci McDonald Kemp, the county’s first black woman elected to county-wide office, gave a Martin Luther King...
MLK Day of Service hosted by  PSU students in McKeesport
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By Stacy Wolford 
January 20, 2020
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Students from five different Penn State University campuses in Western Pennsylvania joined forces in McKeesport Monday to complete service projects in memory of the li...
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By Stacy Wolford 
January 20, 2020
By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com Every girl deserves to feel like a princess on her prom night. That’s why Diann Donaldson, owner of Jazzy Boutique in North Belle Vernon, has made it her ...
The Mantle House is on a mission to help more  homeless young people
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By Stacy Wolford 
January 20, 2020
By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A resale ministry based in West Newton and Elizabeth is having a months-long sale to clear out inventory to make room for new items. Marci Elsbury and her husband, R...
Newly merged churches hold unity banquet
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 19, 2020
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com This month, three churches in the Mid-Mon Valley officially joined forces in a merger to form St. Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church. The Rev. Kevin Dominik said the m...