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1 week ago | 
monvalleyindependent.com | Wayne Stewart
Commencement is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday for 200 graduates. For the MVI Ringgold High School will hold its 2025 commencement at 7 p.m. Monday in the high school gymnasium. There are 200 graduates. ...
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1 month ago | 
monvalleyindependent.com | Wayne Stewart
MLB, Sports
A recent article on MLB’s website listed the greatest father-son duos in baseball history.
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Naomi Outreach hosted its semi-annual luncheon for veterans Wednesday at the Clubhouse Grille at Cedarbrook Golf Course in Rostraver Township. Naomi Outreach was started in the early 1990s by Joni Kel...
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1 month ago | 
monvalleyindependent.com | Wayne Stewart
Sports
SPORTS STEW
Donora native and 2015 Ringgold graduate Chrysta Rands-Evans may achieve something few Valley athletes have ever done — she has a shot at representing her country in the next Winter Olympics to be held next year in Italy.
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1 month ago | 
altoonamirror.com | Wayne Stewart
March Madness actually trickles over into April when a new NCAA champion is crowned. So, with basketball insanity still in the air, a look at some interesting facets of the sport is in order. Pittsburgh doesn’t really have strong basketball roots even though the city was the home of the American Basketball Association’s Pipers/Condors. In the Pipers’ inaugural season, 1967-68, they won the first-ever ABA title behind legendary forward/center Connie Hawkins.
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1 month ago | 
monvalleyindependent.com | Wayne Stewart
Sports
SPORTS STEW
Starting way back in January of 1956, when Sports Illustrated was in its infancy, a new feature called “Faces in the Crowd” (initially titled “These Faces in the Crowd”) debuted. It featured top amateur athletes from across the country.
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Reach out, reconnect and explore the possibilities. Share your experience, knowledge and skills.
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2 months ago | 
monvalleyindependent.com | Wayne Stewart
Sports
MUSIAL PART 2
Author’s note: Part One of the Musial story ended with Dick dispelling the myth that stated he did not play college football because Stan was fearful Dick was a bit undersized.
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Don’t miss the latest from Donora and the McKeesport Area school board in Friday’s MVI.
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2 months ago | 
monvalleyindependent.com | Wayne Stewart
Sports
Some time ago, a column in the Mon Valley Independent featured letters Stan Musial wrote back home, mainly from 1939-1946, to Joe Barbao. During that span, Musial was making sure to keep in touch with his roots and with his friend who was instrumental in helping him when he was still Stan the boy, not yet The Man.
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2 months ago | 
monvalleyindependent.com | Wayne Stewart
Sports
SPORTS STEW
When Sally Phillips attended Donora High School, the attitude toward girls sports was almost as if organized interscholastic sports had a sign proclaiming “NO GIRLS ALLOWED.” Title IX was still several years away from being enacted.
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Benefit craft show Proceeds will go toward Make-A-Wish and the Zombek Foundation.
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2 months ago | 
monvalleyindependent.com | Wayne Stewart
Local Sports, Sports, Sports Columns
Part 1 of the Hostetler story featured him discussing select Charleroi High stars.
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TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
Those in need can now receive food, diapers and pet food from the three St. Andrew the Apostle parishes in the Valley. Furry friends in the Mon Valley sometimes need help, too. As many families rely o...
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Mar 1, 2025 | 
bookreporter.com | Wayne Stewart
Over the course of nearly a half-century of writing, Wayne Stewart has met and talked to countless baseball players. A wise and accomplished journalist can acquire a great deal of insight and observations through a lifetime of interviews. Putting all of that into an interesting and illuminating book might not be a difficult task. In fact, the simplest procedure for an author would be to write an introductory biography of a player and then prepare a word-for-word transcript of an interview.
