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"With the end of every day there is felt a more pressing need in this valley for a Monongahela Valley Chamber of Commerce." Those words sound familiar, right? Perhaps they were spoken or written in recent years by proponents of the time-honored theory of strength in numbers.

The Tribune-Review can be reached online or at 412-321-6460. Ways to get us The Allegheny County Board of Health on Wednesday approved an extended 60-day public comment period for a proposal to improve air quality in the Monongahela Valley.

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Stacy Levy, an artist from Spring Mills, has recreated a 924-square-foot stone map of the Spring Creek watershed, pictured below, at the H.O. Smith Botanical Gardens at the Penn State Arboretum this summer.

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A Washington County coal company Friday submitted a guilty plea to one misdemeanor count each of pollution and unlawful conduct before Fayette County Judge Steve Leskinen.

The annual "Showboat" is set to sail this weekend as Mon Valley senior citizens will dance, sing and perform for a good cause.

Criminal charges are pending in connection with the stabbing early Friday of a Frazier school board member in his Fayette County home, according to state police.

This article has been read 643 times. Like a department store that's firing up "Jingle Bells" before Halloween, the flu has hit the region early this year.

Until he left home for Navy boot camp, John Edward Allen had never been on an airplane.

The man who allegedly gunned down 21-year-old Christopher Martin on the 800 block of Fourth Street in late June pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in Marion County Circuit Court Thursday.

Sixty years of activity, which included service to the parish and community, were observed by the Ladies Guild of St.

When a devastating fire struck Vocelli's Pizza in Monongahela Sept. 6, two buildings in the city were not the only losses.

Fran Roberts began working on cars as a teen. He still owns the 1969 Camaro he once raced.

The former Sedney Olds site along Route 88 in Craven Hill -- vacant since August when the dealership closed -- will soon be occupied by a familiar, long-time successful company.

In any location in which the changes of seasons are prominent, the opportunity to watch foliage change color is highly anticipated by both residents and visitors.

OCTOBER 10: Spc. Jose Flores of Mesa, Arizona, the cook for the 3/509 of the US Army's 25th Infantry Division, serves up chicken cordon bleu and other entrees October 10, 2009 at Combat Outpost Zerok, Paktika province, Afghanistan.

Scott Simmons, owner of the ScareHouse in Etna == "We spent 10 years becoming an overnight sensation." Scott Simmons works all year round for five weeks of glory come Halloween.

This article has been read 388 times. Washington County District Attorney Steven Toprani appeared in court Wednesday to address the separate criminal cases involving a former Smith Township police officer and a Monongahela man.

Environmental protection officials are considering action against CONSOL Energy five weeks into the investigation of a fish and mussel kill on Dunkard Creek.