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By Matt Petras For the MVI The City of Monessen held a ceremony Saturday renaming Ninth Street Park as Anthony Eric Madison, Sr. Veterans Memorial Park, commemorating a Monessen native killed at age 27 while […]

By JEFF STITT [email protected] In the wake of Russia’s continued attack on Ukraine, Pennsylvania’s governor and a state senator from the Mon Valley called for Russian-sourced products, such as vodka, to be pulled from state […]

By TAYLOR BROWN [email protected] Charleroi Area students will celebrate female voices of the 1960s when “Beehive the ’60s Musical: A School Edition” this weekend.  To read the rest of the story, please subscribe or subscribe […]

By John Rectenwald [email protected] February can be a brutal stretch for shopkeepers in the Northeast, but the owners of Graceful Style in Elizabeth aren’t waiting for warmer weather or tax season. To read the rest […]

By TAYLOR BROWN [email protected] It’s never too early to start learning. For students at California Area Elementary School, their newest peers were only six days old when they stumbled into a classroom for the first time, […]

By MEGAN GUZA Trib Total Media As the federal government loosens masking guidance for a majority of healthy Americans, Pennsylvania officials said they will follow suit while keeping an eye on COVID-related hospital admissions and […]

By John Rectenwald [email protected] A mechanic in Elizabeth was once a boy dreaming of cars 15,000 miles away.  To read the rest of the story, please see a copy of Saturday’s Mon Valley Independent, call […]

By CHASITY CAPASSO For the MVI Behaviorworx Center for Autism and Behavior will officially open its doors Tuesday in the Peasant Village Professional Plaza in Rostraver Township.  To read the rest of the story, please […]

By Matt Petras For the MVI After more than two decades as Red Dawg’s All Star Clubhouse, the Rostraver Township restaurant has transformed into Dawg’s Sports Bar and Grill under new owner Martin Sivic. To […]

Monessen basketball players Lorenzo Gardner and Dante DeFelices shake hands with students during a pep rally Thursday morning at Monessen Elementary Center for the Greyhounds boys and girls basketball teams.