Monaca News

Central Valley School District teachers are ready to give up sick days to help a coworker fighting for her life against the H1N1 virus.

Education: A native of Monaca, McCarthy graduated from Monaca High School; she earned a bachelor's degree in nursing from Carlow University, a master's degree in nursing from George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., and a doctorate in nursing from the University of Pittsburgh's School of Nursing.

U.S. News and World Report has included more than a dozen Western Pennsylvania high schools as among the best public schools in the nation in its 2010 America's Best High Schools.

Bayer Diabetes Care and Nick Jonas awarded the three grand prize winners of Bayer's "Express Your Simple Win Creativity Contest". The contest entrants were all children living with type 1 diabetes.

Police in western Pennsylvania have identified the man killed in a double shooting in a strip mall parking lot.

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.