Monaca News

Video footage of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based old-school metallers MANTIC RITUAL performing the song "Souls" with their new vocalist/guitarist Dave Watson on October 31, 2009 at the Smiling Moose in the band's hometown can be viewed below.

Luv Desai, a senior at Moon Area High School, helps straighten a bow on top of one of the trees in the Festival of Trees celebration at Brady's Run Park in Beaver County.

At least three area football conferences will take hits when the WPIAL goes into its realignment for the 2010 and 2011 seasons.

The Department of Veterans Affairs and Valor Healthcare, a contractor for the VA, will hold an open house in the VA's outpatient clinic from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at 90 Wagner Road, Monaca, near Beaver Valley Mall.

The Central Valley school directors last week approved a job description for their first high school athletic director, and the job was posted Friday.

This weekend I dropped by a Kings Restaurant in Monaca, Pa., some 30 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.

The Central Valley school board last night started preparing to sell the former Fifth Ward Elementary School -- and at the same meeting authorized payment for sending last year's entire Fifth Ward teaching staff to Washington, D.C. to collect the school's Blue Ribbon Award.

The book is closed on Monaca after its 27-0 loss to Avonworth in the opening round of the WPIAL playoffs, but Center still has a chance to make history.

A federal grand jury in New Jersey recently indicted a Beaver County man on charges that he began cyber attacks against three Web sites, including the site for the popular magazine Rolling Stone.

The Central Valley School Board saw more merger benefits last night, with seven teachers taking buyouts effective at the end of this year and administrators giving a glimpse of the curricula that will be offered at the CV middle school and high school next year.

Central Valley school officials last night said they will likely take a hearing by the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League to sort out last week's confrontation between a football referee and a Monaca football fan -- a confrontation in which the fan ended up Tasered and arrested

A Monaca parent was arrested at the South Side Beaver at Monaca football game Friday.

A dance performance of the classic children's musical "Peter and the Wolf" takes place today through Friday at the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center.

A western Pennsylvania man has run into local opposition to his plans to erect a wind turbine atop a 34-foot tower in his back yard.

An audit by the Veterans Affairs Inspector General concluded that a private contractor running a Monaca clinic improperly billed for the care of 457 veterans, including at least nine who were dead.

Quaker Valley High School graduate Joshua Walker is traveling across the country in search of America's next big entertainment star.

A man was arrested Thursday during Hancock County's Grand Jury Docket Day for his involvement in a fatal accident in May on U.S. Route 30.

Liz Hayes can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4680. The laurels are piling up for New Kensington-Arnold School District this year.

Indictments were handed down from the Hancock County Grand Jury on Thursday, including the indictment of a man who was involved in a fatal accident that took place on Memorial Day on U.S Route 30.

Bob Frye covers the outdoors for the Tribune-Review. He can be reached via e-mail . Anglers fishing the lagoons at Presque Isle bay over the holiday weekend where picking up largemouth bass up to 16 inches and northern pike in the 24-inch class on green and white spinnerbaits with red hooks, according to one report from the area.