2020: A year like no other
By staff and wire reports Virtual school. Shuttered businesses. Mask mandates. “Stay calm, stay home and stay safe.” Like the rest of the globe, the Mon Valley and the rest of Pennsylvania struggled mightily with […]
December 2020
Valley lawmakers look forward to new year
By JEFF STITT [email protected] A new year is upon us, and a few Mon Valley lawmakers say they’re aware 2020 was a rough year for Pennsylvanians. Small businesses, families and individuals, municipalities, school districts, nonprofits […]
Fine art on display at Monongahela Main Street Program gallery
By ERIC SEIVERLING [email protected] Monongahela is getting a small sampling of Asian art thanks to the city’s Main Street Program. The program’s Fine Art Gallery, located at 221 W. Main St., currently displays Asian-inspired paintings […]
Rostraver sets fire tax to support township fire departments
By Christine Haines [email protected] Rostraver Township’s fire departments received a bit of financial security in the 2021 budget, with the commissioners adopting a 3-mill fire tax for the first time in the township’s history. According […]
Elizabeth Borough budget includes tax hike
By Christine Haines [email protected] Elizabeth Borough Council Wednesday adopted a $1.08 million budget with a 1.5 mill property tax increase. The new real estate tax rate will be 10 mills, up from 8.5 mills in […]
Forward Township supervisors OK new budget with no tax hike
By Christine Haines [email protected] The Forward Township Supervisors met in special session Wednesday to adopt the 2021 budget. The $1.5 million spending plan was adopted unanimously with no increase in property taxes. It was the […]
Frank Delia – Belle Vernon
Frank Delia, 102, of Belle Vernon, passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020, in Country Care Manor. A son of the late Joseph and Filomenia DeFazio Delia, he was born in Mt. Sterling, Pa. on […]
Rita Yauch – McKeesport
Rita Yauch, 84, of McKeesport, died Dec. 25, 2020. She was born in McKeesport on Jan. 1, 1936, and was the daughter of the late Joseph William and Anna Elizabeth Marish Kapis. She was a […]
Lincoln Richard Tidwell – Fort Worth, Texas
Lincoln Richard Tidwell, age 2, passed away on Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas. Lincoln was born on Dec. 27, 2017, in Fort Worth, Texas, to parents Amanda and Justin […]
John Bartina – Monongahela
John Bartina, 88, of Monongahela, died Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020, at Monongahela Valley Hospital in Carroll Township. He was born July 6, 1932, in Donora the son of the late Nick and Frances Verbanich Bartina. […]