By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Main Street in Monongahela is getting a facelift, bit by bit, thanks to a grant program that offers building owners a chance to restore a structure’s facade with ...

By JIM BUSCH For the MV Independent Cars ranging from a 1912 Ford Model T pick-up truck to a state-of-the-art Tesla sedan filled the parking lot of White Oak Municipal Park as part of the fourth annua...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A McKeesport senior has been identified as the victim of a fatal shooting early Friday morning in Pittsburgh’s South Side Flats neighborhood.   According to the Alle...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The founder of a nonprofit cat rescue in Charleroi is accused of animal cruelty. Lori Kendall, 64, and her husband, Donald Caldwell, 64, both of Eighth Street, are e...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Dr. Karen Hacker, director of the Allegheny County Health Department, will soon take her talents to Georgia and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.   ...

By Deb Erdley The Westmoreland County Children’s Bureau is making a bid to recruit additional foster families as it marks Foster Care Awareness Month. Officials from the bureau are partnering with the...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Washington Area Humane Society will re-open today after a precautionary quarantine was issued last week.   On May 17 the humane society announced the temporary c...

By Matt Petras For the MV Independent Dominic Campana grew up in Monessen, but now lives in a Brooklyn, N.Y., apartment with a counter displaying his four Sports Emmy awards.   Campana, 34, earned the...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport’s Veterans Activities Committee is encouraging McKeesport residents to attend the city’s annual Memorial Day service, which will be held at 10 a.m. Monday. ...

For the MVI One day, nearly five decades ago, Art Lent’s brother took him to golf for the first time. He fell in love with the sport. “I went home and bought a set of clubs and I’ve been golfing ever ...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com A potential threat to the Monongahela River has been curbed for at least 90 days.   Fayette County Court of Common Pleas Judge Steve Leskinen issued a consent order ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A Donora man is being accused of attempted homicide after allegedly beating another man severely on Wednesday.   Jerimiah White, 18, of Liberty Avenue is charged wit...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The Belle Vernon Area school board approved a balanced $38,978,632 preliminary budget for the 2019-20 school year during a special meeting on Thursday. It includes a t...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com It was a bittersweet event for the Anders family this week as the first ever Sam’s Symphony of Love Scholarship was awarded. Samantha Anders, 14, took her life in Oc...

By Matt Petras For the Mon Valley Independent Every day Chris Pirt, a five-year owner and operator of the Demon House alongside his wife, walks around a certain corner at the mansion, he nervously tur...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Monessen council mulled its options for potential infrastructure upgrades Thursday.   For the past few years, residents have been paying an additional monthly line u...

By Beth Hope-Cushey For the MV Independent South Allegheny residents will see a tax increase if the district’s proposed budget passes as it stands.   School directors approved the $25.7 million spendi...

By JIM BUSCH For the Mon Valley Independent Some of Glassport High School’s alumni are going back to school, and they intend to stay.   That’s because their old high school has been transformed into a...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission recognizes that families across the commonwealth utilize Memorial Day weekend as a time for recreation and liesure.   That’s wh...

BELLE VERNON Norma Jean Ournac Krett, 88, of Belle Vernon, formerly of North Charleroi, passed away Thursday, May 23, 2019 at her home. Born Oct. 18, 1930 in North Charleroi, Pa., she was the daughter...