Articles by Mon Valley Independent

By JIM BUSCH For the MVI Virginia Drive is normally a residential street in Lincoln Borough. But a number of state, county and local officials gathered there Thursday morning to inspect a new drainage project. To […]

By TAYLOR BROWN [email protected] Members of Speers Borough Council are requesting the resignation of Councilman Mike Todora, citing “ongoing issues” between him and other council members.  To read the rest of the story, please see […]

By Max Robinette [email protected] Donora hired a full-time police officer at Thursday’s council meeting. In a 4-2 vote, council brought Carl Talbert onto the police force. Talbert currently works in Monongahela and has previously worked in […]

By JEFF STITT [email protected] Elizabeth Forward’s gridiron was alive with activity Tuesday as high school life skills students from around the Greater Pittsburgh region — and a couple of Steelers Super Bowl champions — were […]

By JOHN RECTENWALD [email protected] The opposition camp in Elizabeth Township’s contentious fracking debate will have another week to prepare its cross-examinations of Olympus Energy witnesses. The third hearing regarding the conditional use application for the Hera […]

By TAYLOR BROWN [email protected] High school students from Italy will become Cougars for a day or two when they visit the Charleroi Area School District campus next month. Superintendent Dr. Ed Zelich said CASD administrators, […]

By Max Robinette [email protected] After nine and a half months of protests from the public and appealing to council, Donora Mayor Don Pavelko has claimed the traditional mayoral office space in the borough building. To […]

By JEFF OLIVER For the MVI When Robbie Graw was gutting the vacant property he recently purchased in Monessen, he came upon something odd behind old cabinets in the basement of the dilapidated structure. He had […]