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By KRISTIE LINDEN [email protected] Monessen held its second Community Development Block Grant hearing Thursday to determine how to use the funds the city will receive this year, and there may be some changes if a […]

Members of the California Borough Recreation Authority gathered Friday afternoon to prepare for this weekend’s Riverfest. From left, Michelle Kinsey, Amelia Mitchell and Ashley Roth, all of California, unpack a vendor tent in the parking […]

By TAYLOR BROWN [email protected] A bakery bearing the name of the woman who led it each year at Festival of Nations in Charleroi was an overwhelming success. Peggy Foster, a member of St. Andrew the […]

By JEFF STITT [email protected] The White Oak Lions did their part recently to support the White Oak Police Department. A few weeks ago, Lions Rich Peters, Carol Lasch and Dorothy Kuharski presented Chief Mark Sargent and […]

Third-grader Leora Ashbaugh, 9, of Smithton gets a haircut from cosmetology student Charhea Strickler on Thursday at the Cosmetology Academy at Douglas Education Center in Monessen. DEC held a back-to-school celebration with free haircuts for […]

By KRISTIE LINDEN [email protected] Donora’s mayor and two council members have filed a lawsuit against the borough and the other five council members claiming there were Sunshine Act violations involved in the way police Superintendent […]

By JIM BUSCH For the MVI Jan Barton has worked six days a week for the last 40 years and has loved every minute of it. Barton is the owner and operator of Barton’s Flowers and […]

By John Rectenwald [email protected] Pennsylvania American Water announced Thursday the start of construction to install nearly 2,800 feet of new water main in Elizabeth Borough. The project is scheduled to begin Monday when contractors will plot […]

South Allegheny quarterback Eric Wehrer throws a pass in front of a rainbow at the school’s new stadium during media day Wednesday. 

By TAYLOR BROWN [email protected] Graduate students from Carnegie Mellon University are taking a vested interest in the future of Monongahela and what the growing community has to offer.  On Thursday, a portion of a five-member […]