Tips for Cops, Kids Basketball Program returning in White Oak
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 23, 2020
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The White Oak Police Department, in partnership with Mayor Ina Jean Marton, will hold two of its annual community outreach programs again this year. Marton announced a...
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 23, 2020
By JEFF OLIVER For MV Independent One of the fastest rising occupations these days is that of Doordash driver. The drivers pick up customers’ orders at participating restaurants and sandwich shops mad...
Bears move on
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 22, 2020
Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Brenda Jamison, second from left, celebrates with Clairton girls basketball players, from left, Taylor Jackson, Iyauna Chapman and Mya Norman after the Bears de...
Carroll Twp. chief warns mourning families
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 22, 2020
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Carroll Township police Chief Paul Brand said it is hard to find the right words to describe how disturbed he is that someone burglarized the homes of Craven Plan resi...
Longtime Washington County politician dies
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 22, 2020
By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Judith L. Fisher is being remembered as a “perennial candidate,” most recently running for office last year when she sought to become the Washington County Regi...
Local Boy Scouts don’t expect bankruptcy impact
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 22, 2020
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The Boy Scouts of America Laurel Highlands Council announced this week it does not anticipate the national organization’s bankruptcy filing to “have any direct impact ...
Celebrate the birthdays of Washington, Lincoln today
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 22, 2020
y ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com West Jefferson Hills Historical Society will celebrate “Happy Birthday, George & Abe!” at 1 p.m. today.   The society will commemorate the birthdays of presid...
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 22, 2020
By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The Heinz History Center’s We Can Do It! WWII traveling exhibit is in its fourth weekend at Donora Public Library with two speaking events on the schedule for tod...
Brotherly love
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 20, 2020
MIke Darnay / For the Mon Valley Independent South Allegheny’s Antonio Epps celebrates with his younger brother, Reese, after the Gladiators won Thursday’s playoff game on a last-second shot.
Sewer line collapse opens up sinkhole in Monessen
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 20, 2020
By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A more than 100-year-old brick sewer line on the ArcelorMittal Mill property in Monessen collapsed this week and opened a sinkhole 35 feet deep and 60 feet long. ...
Chair-ity event attracts artists
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 20, 2020
By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Art lovers, wine connoisseurs and the just plain curious were on hand at Off the Wall Art Studio Thursday night to show their support for local charity. The ...
Area communities add vaping to smoking bans
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 20, 2020
By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Communities that jumped on the anti-smoking bandwagon for their parks and playgrounds several years ago are now expanding the ban to vaping. Rostraver Township ...
Oil change business has new name and new owner
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 20, 2020
By Matt Petras For the MV Independent After working for years at Duke of Oil in Carroll Township, Gary Koteles has become the owner.   “I’m a lot happier when cars show up,” said Koteles, who began at...
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 20, 2020
By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The pieces are still being put together from Wednesday evening’s manhunt in Monessen, which resulted in a suspect being picked up on outstanding warrants. Charg...
Party, drink (and eat) like it’s 1933
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By Stacy Wolford 
February 19, 2020
By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Walking through a “telephone booth” on Broad Avenue in North Belle Vernon will take you back in time to 1933. We’re not talking time travel, but it might seem like i...
Shuttered Bunola River Road reopens
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By Stacy Wolford 
February 19, 2020
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A portion of Bunola River Road in Forward Township that has been closed for nearly a month as a result of safety concerns was reopened for single-lane traffic on Wedne...
Elizabeth borough police officer charged with forgery
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By Stacy Wolford 
February 19, 2020
By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com A part-time Elizabeth borough police officer is accused of forging a psychological report for another officer. Criminal charges of forgery, unsworn falsificatio...
Twin Rivers Chamber leader leaving post
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By Stacy Wolford 
February 19, 2020
BY JEFF OLIVER For the Mon Valley Independent Almost 12 years ago, Gina Lynn was named the executive director of the Greater Rostraver Chamber of Commerce. Under her leadership, the chamber expanded a...
Ringgold to offer early retirement incentives
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By Stacy Wolford 
February 19, 2020
By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Ringgold School Board voted Wednesday to offer early retirement incentives for the district’s professional and non-professional employees. The district’s non-prof...
Tough loss to take
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 19, 2020
Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Monessen’s Zykavia Hairston, left, and Kendelle Weston react after Tuesday’s 34-30 loss to Aquinas Academy in the WPIAL playoffs.