By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com For the second straight season, Belle Vernon Area’s chase for an elusive WPIAL title ended in the semifinals. To read the rest of the story, please subscribe or su...

By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports Most people don’t make it to 85 years of life on this Earth. And many of those who do have many limitations because of their age and health. To read the rest of the story, pl...

For the Mon Valley Independent Behind a 13-0 run in the third quarter, the Cal U women’s basketball team won the PSAC West for the first time since 2017 with a 63-57 win at Gannon Saturday afternoon. ...

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 2...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com 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...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com 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, pl...

By John Rectenwald jrectenwald@yourmvi.com 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 sea...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com After watching Trinity standout Alyssa Clutter singlehandedly erase an 11-point deficit, McKeesport needed some heroics to advance to the WPIAL semifinals. To read...

Mary Louise Assenat, 63, of Monessen, passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022, in the ER of Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital. She was born on June 26, 1958, in North Charleroi, daughter...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com 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 clas...

Bessie Jean Tedrow Ciavarra, 100, of Charleroi, passed away peacefully on Feb. 23. 2022, at Grandview Estates of Elizabeth. Born in Fallowfield Township on Nov. 25, 1921, Bessie is the daughter of the...

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-r...

By Adam Brewer MVI Sports You can’t spell redemption without E…F. Well, maybe you can. But for the Elizabeth Forward girls basketball team, they found their redemption on the road in the WPIAL Class 4...

By John Rectenwald jrectenwald@yourmvi.com 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 Indepe...

Jean Odessa Davis, 83, of Donora, departed this earthly life for a better one on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, at Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital.  She was born Sept. 29, 1938, to the late Kenneth Davis ...

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...

John Nicholas DeJuliis, Sr., 95, of Monongahela passed away peacefully in his home in Monongahela surrounded by his family on Feb. 25, 2022. Born Jan. 14, 1927, in Monongahela, he was a son of Nicola ...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Monessen saw its 16-game winning streak and its quest for a WPIAL championship come to an end Friday night.   To read the rest of the story, please see a copy of Sat...

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...

Paul Spence, formerly of Elizabeth, passed away on Feb. 17, 2022, in Tampa, Fla. He was born in Monongahela to the late Joseph Albert Spence and Bertha Isaac Spence on March 4, 1929. He married the lo...