For many, New Year’s is a time for superstitions
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December 31, 2024
By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com While the new year can mark new beginnings, fresh starts and lots of things to look forward to, for many people it starts with paying homage to tradi...
Around The Valley
By SARAH PELLIS spellis@yourmvi.com 
December 31, 2024
Most of them are focused on economic development and bringing more jobs to the Mon Valley. With the new year almost here, leaders throughout the Mon Valley are reflecting on what 2025 will look like f...
Nation remembers President Carter, who died Sunday at 100
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December 30, 2024
The 39th president focused on humanitarian work after leaving the White House in 1981. ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vi...
GoFundMe drive set up for Monongahela fire victims
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By MICHAEL RICHTER, mrichter@yourmvi.com 
December 30, 2024
Kristy Johnson and her six children weren’t home at the time of the fire Friday evening. A GoFundMe has been launched for a family of seven who lost their possessions in a fire that ravaged their home...
Elizabeth recognizes borough businesses
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By SARAH PELLIS spellis@yourmvi.com 
December 30, 2024
All of them received “Best of the Best” honors from the Tribune-Review. Elizabeth Borough Council recognized a few businesses and events at a meeting last week. This year, “Sounds Like Summer on Plum”...
McKeesport Area School District plans improvements to high school
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By LADIMIR GARCIA lgarcia@yourmvi.com 
December 30, 2024
The entrance will be upgraded to increase safety, and new auditorium lights will be installed. Improvements are coming to McKeesport Area High School, including an upgrade to the entrance area and new...
CFFC celebrates beneficiaries of Fayette Gives
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
December 30, 2024
The annual 12-hour fundraising marathon was held in November. Charities across Fayette County had a lot to be thankful for this holiday season. On Dec. 12, the Community Foundation of Fayette County g...
Holiday tournament tickets
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December 30, 2024
Teacher Joanne Cloherty and Annika Jackowski sold tickets at the entrance to the South Allegheny Holiday Basketball Tournament Saturday afternoon. Jackowski’s sons, Joshua and Adam, play on South Alle...
Duck hunting alive & well for some in Western Pa.
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By JACK TROY TribLive 
December 30, 2024
Nationally, the number of waterfowl hunters is at its lowest level since 1962. Fat off stale bread and hip to locations of warm sewage outflows, ducks are plentiful on the Allegheny River. “We saw hun...
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By By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer 
December 30, 2024
Two family films dominated the holiday box office this week, with “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” winning the three-day weekend over “Mufasa” by a blue hair. Paramount’s Sonic movie earned $38 million, while “...
Politics
December 30, 2024
IT TOOK MORE THAN THREE YEARS, but it finally happened: The State Department has deemed Marc Fogel wrongfully detained. In August 2021, the teacher from Oakmont was returning to Russia to teach at the...
Politics
December 30, 2024
By HALELUYA HADERO and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to pause the potential TikTok ban from going into effect until his administrati...
YOUNG GREYHOUNDS FAN
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December 28, 2024
Monessen cheerleading coach Siyah Frost holds her 1-year-old son, A’Iress Stevenson, while attending the Delvin Miller Christmas Basketball Tournament on Friday. To purchase this photo and more from o...
Nonprofit provides help in memory of Michael Shaffer
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By SARAH PELLIS spellis@yourmvi.com 
December 28, 2024
Michael’s Ovation focuses on activities the 14-year-old Rostraver Township resident loved prior to his death in 2020. Be kind. Be a friend. Be aware. Make a difference. That’s the message that local n...
Westmoreland coroner’s office joins effort to encourage organ donation
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By By RENATTA SIGNORINI TribLive 
December 28, 2024
Even though her father isn’t a phone call away anymore, Cassidy Gamble knows his kind nature is still making an impact on others. James Forish became a tissue donor after his Aug. 1 death, allowing hi...
Dogs left in boxes outside White Oak Giant Eagle
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December 28, 2024
They were taken to an animal shelter as police seek information about who abandoned them. By PATRICK VARINE TribLive Two miniature pinschers were at an animal shelter Friday after they were found in t...
Superintendent refutes rumors of TB outbreak in Charleroi
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
December 28, 2024
Dr. Ed Zelich confirmed that Facebook posts about the disease are inaccurate. Rumors are once again circulating about the immigrant population in Charleroi. On Tuesday, Charleroi Area Superintendent D...
Street department has opening in North Charleroi
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
December 28, 2024
Borough officials plan to start reviewing applications for the position in the middle of January. North Charleroi is looking to hire a full-time member for its street department for the new year. The ...
Knights of Columbus, Monessen Council 954, donates to ARCDD
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December 28, 2024
Knights of Columbus, Monessen Council 954, recently collected $1,500 for the Association for the Rights of Citizens with Developmental Disabilities (ARCDD) Mon Valley, a chapter of the national organi...