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Last Updated on Monday, 03 May 2021 20:19

Members of the Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees (SOAR) from the former Wheeling-Pitt sites in Allenport and Monessen, Pa. made a $250 gift to Monongahela Valley Hospital in appreciation of the hospital’s vaccination effort to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. The gift was presented during the group’s monthly meeting attended by Louis J. Panza, President and CEO, Melissa Marion, director of the Monongahela Valley Hospital Foundation and Lauren Kifer, community relations coordinator.

Last Updated on Monday, 03 May 2021 20:16

Do You Have A Few Hours A Week to Spare For A Worthwhile Cause?

Donora Senior Center is in desperate need of volunteers for their home delivered meals program for the Donora and Carroll township areas. (This program is also referred to “meals on wheels.”)

Last Updated on Monday, 03 May 2021 20:14

New Partnership with Monessen Family Center

By Lois Thomson

Can you imagine not knowing what a birthday cake is? Or what it's like to receive a present on your birthday? When she was volunteering during an after-school program, Megan Yunn learned that the 12-year-old student she was helping had never had a birthday party, and didn't know what they were like.

Last Updated on Monday, 03 May 2021 20:11

By Lois Thomson

Years after the focus was on it as one of the building blocks of the nation, the Mon Valley finds itself in the spotlight again. The film industry has come to such towns as Donora, Monessen, Rankin, Braddock, and McKeesport to film a series titled "Rust," which will appear on Showtime and is based on the novel American Rust by Philipp Meyer.

Last Updated on Monday, 03 May 2021 20:01

10 year old Carroll Township residents Olive DiBernardo and Tyler Martin participated in the UCI BMX World qualifiers on Friday, March 26, 2021 in Rock Hill South Carolina.