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By Max Robinette [email protected] Belle Vernon Area school board members are urging people to apply for substitute bus and van driver positions for the upcoming school year. To read the rest of the story, please […]

By TAYLOR BROWN [email protected] With paving underway for the first time in several years in North Charleroi, some residents have concerns about roads that did not make the first phase of the project.  To read […]

By TAYLOR BROWN [email protected] Borough engineers believe Charleroi got off easy after receiving notice that the Department of Environmental Protection was missing needed MS4 documentation from more than seven years ago. MS4 stands for Municipal Separate […]

By Joe Augustine For the Mon Valley Independent There are more than 143,000 students and families across Pennsylvania who have chosen a public charter school, according to Families United for Charter Schools. With the recent incorporation […]

Olivia Kostelac of North Charleroi enjoys a meatball sub from the Italy booth at the Festival of Nations on Saturday at the Charleroi campus of St. Andrew the Apostle Parish. 

By TAYLOR BROWN [email protected] Charleroi leaders have given authority to the solicitor and borough manager to explore the process of right-sizing council.  To read the rest of the story, please subscribe or subscribe to our […]

By KRISTIE LINDEN [email protected] Monessen City Council voted unanimously to buy a purchase-order software system in an effort to improve its record keeping with an eye toward reining in spending as well. Mayor Ron Mozer and […]

By Christine Haines For the MVI It was a wedding 37 years in the making, forged from friendship and designed to last a lifetime — qualities befitting marriage to a blacksmith. There were, in fact, 10 […]

By Matt Petras For the Mon Valley Independent Todd Sharman took to the stage Saturday holding a red Rickenbacker guitar and dressed in black boots, blue jeans, a blue patterned dress shirt, a black vest, […]

By Max Robinette [email protected] In rolls the new, out rolls the old. Either way you go, you keep on rolling. After 39 years, Valley Skating Center in Donora will change ownership and undergo renovations at the […]