By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The state Senate Education Committee on Friday voted 10 to 1 in favor of House Bill 2787, which would officially give local school districts the power to decide what f...

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com The Washington County Commissioners voted to hire Zelenkofske Axelrod LLC to oversee the COVID-19 Relief Block Grant program in a special meeting held Friday. T...

By jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com While several local schools returned to the gridiron Friday for scrimmages, Elizabeth Forward’s football team did not.   Instead of scrimmaging Ligonier Valley, the ...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Two years ago, Yancey Taylor didn’t like what he saw at the Highland Terrace basketball court in Donora. There were cracks in the court, no fence in place to keep a ...

Ella Mae Pettyjohn, 89, of Rostraver Township, died Friday, Sept. 4, 2020, in her home. She was born Feb. 26, 1931, in Cokeburg, daughter of the late Thomas Glenn and Catherine Harmon Glenn Lipscomb. ...

Kinsey Wilson, a junior at Monessen High School, picks up her school-issued Chromebook from Assistant Principal DJ Madzey outside the school Thursday afternoon.

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Charleroi Borough Council is seeking help from the public to identify a driver who is dumping contracting bags full of trash throughout town. “There are tons of them...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator Joe DeFelice participated in a roundtable discussion Thursday with area government...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com The coronavirus pandemic has impacted two Monongahela Valley Hospital Foundation fundraisers this year, but foundation officials remain upbeat they will be a...

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com The fiscal policies of agencies that handle programs for Washington County are being reviewed to make sure taxpayer dollars are spent not only legally, but resp...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Despite initial support for the idea, Donora council decided Thursday not to let Mon Valley Sewage Authority use its banquet hall for meetings due to COVID-19 con...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com There’s at least one school in the area that has officially announced the return of fans for its athletic activities. In a letter posted on the district’s Facebook...

Eugene Neil Carlock Jr., died on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. He was born on July 9, 1954, to the late Eugene Neil Carlock Sr. and Mary Ann Moon Carlock at Charleroi-Monessen Hospital. Eugene lived the maj...

Linda L. Smith, 74, of Charleroi, died unexpectedly on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020, in Monongahela Valley Hospital. She was born Aug. 13, 1946, in New Eagle, the daughter of the late Della Fawcett Corbet...

Janice P. Burke Stathers, 74, of New Salem, Pa., passed away on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020, at Uniontown Hospital. She was born on July 18, 1946, in Charleroi, daughter of the late Norman and Gertrude Rum...

Ernest “Ernie” Truffa Jr., 82, of Canonsburg, formerly of Gallatin, died Aug. 27, 2020, at home. He was born Jan. 17,1938, in Gallatin, son of the late Vicenza “Vee” and Ernest “Banjo” Truffa. Ernie w...

George Stephen Andrachek passed away on Aug. 20, 2020, in his home. Stephen was born in Monessen to George and Christine Andrachek in 1950. He worked for U.S. Steel, served in the U.S. Air Force, then...

Deborah H. Kudrec, 65, of Glassport, died Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020, at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh. Born Oct. 13, 1954, in Braddock, she was the daughter of the late Louis and Anne Marto Go...

Mary E. Rice, 96, of California, Pa., passed away on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020, at her home. Born in Fallowfield Township on May 11, 1924, she was the daughter of Joseph and Mary Endreszl Klingovsky. S...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com It’s been a little over a year since Tristan Waldier’s sophomore season at Yough came to a drastic, premature end. The Cougars’ starting quarterback suffered a seaso...