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Good morning. Work is underway on Meadville’s Limber Road water tower for a major relining and painting project. The Meadville Area Water Authority is using portable ground tanks to maintain water pressure, successfully avoiding the system pipe breaks that ruined past attempts. Officials expect the project to wrap up by mid-July with no service interruptions. In community news, Jamestown is gearin...

Good morning. A DuBois man is headed to trial on nearly three hundred felony charges involving child sexual abuse material. Thirty-six-year-old Nicholas Allen Johnston waived his preliminary hearing after a state police cyber unit tracked hundreds of illicit file uploads to his cloud storage. Johnston is being held without bail. In fiscal news, property owners in the DuBois Area School District wi...

radioNOVO News for Lebanon: June 25, 2026

RNN FRANKFORT 06/25/26           THE FRANKFORT PLANT BOARD IS POWERING FORWARD WITH THE 3RD PHASE OF ITS SOLAR ENERGY PROJECT.           CREWS ARE CURRENTLY CONSTRUCTING A NEW SOLAR ARRAY TO HELP THE CITY MEET ITS RENEWABLE ENERGY GOALS. ONCE COMPLETE, ALL 3 PHASES OF THE PROJECT WILL GENERATE 2.65 MEGAWATTS OF POWER........... ENOUGH TO LIGHT UP 300 HOMES.                      A LONG-VACANT DOWNT...

RNN SELINSGROVE 06/25/26           A POWER OUTAGE YESTERDAY MORNING FORCED THE CLOSURE OF THE COLUMBIA COUNTY COURTHOUSE AND SEVERAL DOWNTOWN BLOOMSBURG BUSINESSES. MORE THAN 600 CUSTOMERS WERE LEFT IN THE DARK AFTER A TRANSFORMER MALFUNCTIONED. FIREFIGHTERS HAD TO DIRECT TRAFFIC AT MAJOR INTERSECTIONS AFTER DRIVERS IGNORED TEMPORARY STOP SIGNS. POWER WAS RESTORED BY 11 AM.  PPL IS INVESTIGATING....

RNN STROUDSBURG 06/25/26           THE POCONO FAMILY Y-M-C-A IS GEARING UP FOR A MASSIVE 21 MILLION DOLLAR RENOVATION PROJECT. THE 16-MONTH EXPANSION INCLUDES A BRAND NEW 6-LANE POOL, A MODERN FITNESS CENTER, AND AN ON-SITE MEDICAL CLINIC PARTNERSHIP.            THE FIRST OF THREE KICKOFF EVENTS HAPPENS SATURDAY, INCLUDING A COLOR RUN AND OTHER FAMILY ACTIVITIES.  A FORMAL GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY...

RNN ALTOONA 06/25/26           HOLLIDAYSBURG POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING AFTER VANDALS SPRAY-PAINTED RACIAL AND HOMOPHOBIC SLURS ONTO SLIDES AND PLAYGROUND AREAS AT CANAL BASIN PARK. THE VANDALISM OCCURRED OVER THE WEEKEND AND WAS REMOVED BY PUBLIC WORKS CREWS ON WEDNESDAY. OFFICIALS SAY THIS FOLLOWS A SIMILAR INCIDENT WEEKS AGO AT KELLY PARK WHERE 4 JUVENILES WERE CAUGHT. IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT...

RNN LEWISTOWN 06/26/25                  A FATAL CRASH IS BEING REPORTED IN JUNIATA COUNTY.  EMERGENCY CREWS RESPONDED LAST NIGHT TO A DEADLY WRECK ON THE WILLIAM PENN HIGHWAY NEAR SMITH ROAD IN WALKER TOWNSHIP.  POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING.            A FAMILIAR FACE IS BACK TO HELP MIFFLIN COUNTY'S 6000 VETERANS NAVIGATE HEALTHCARE AND DISABILITY CLAIMS.  JAMES "JIMMY" CONWAY WAS REHI...

RNN STATE COLLEGE 06/25/26           TOURISM IN CENTRE COUNTY IS GETTING A RECORD-BREAKING BOOST. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND THE HAPPY VALLEY ADVENTURE BUREAU ANNOUNCED A RECORD 1.15 MILLION DOLLARS IN GRANTS FUNDED BY THE AREA'S 5 PERCENT LODGING TAX. THE RECORD ALLOCATION WILL SUPPORT 91 DIFFERENT PROJECTS FOR LOCAL FESTIVALS, NONPROFITS, AND COMMUNITY ASSETS. RECIPIENTS INCLUDE THE ARTS FEST...

RNN JOHNSTOWN 06/25/26           ALL DEFENDANTS NAMED IN A FEDERAL LAWSUIT FILED BY BISHOP MCCORT CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL HAVE MOVED TO DISMISS THE CASE. THE PRIVATE SCHOOL SUED THE LAUREL HIGHLANDS ATHLETIC CONFERENCE CONVENTIONAL SCHOOLS AND THE P-I-A-A, CLAIMING A NEW LEAGUE VOTING PROCESS AMOUNTS TO RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION. HOWEVER, ATTORNEYS FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARGUE THE CASE LACKS...

RNN WILLIAMSPORT 06/25/26           BREAKING NEWS OUT OF MUNCY TOWNSHIP............... AFTER EVACUATING THEIR FIRE STATION AND MOVING THEIR APPARATUS TO THE MUNCY AREA FIRE COMPANY TUESDAY.............. THE MUNCY TOWNSHIP FIRE COMPANY EXPECTS TO BE BACK IN ITS QUARTERS BY THE END OF THE WEEK.            SUPERVISORS HAVE SIGNED AN AGREEMENT TO BRING IN SERV-PRO TO CLEAN UP THE REMNANTS OF AN APRIL...

RNN BOWLING GREEN 06/25/26           THE SOUTHERN KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER............ OR SKYPAC............  IS CELEBRATING AMERICA’S 250TH BIRTHDAY WITH A FREE CONCERT.           THE "STAR-SPANGLED SPECTACULAR" HITS THE SKYPAC STAGE NEXT THURSDAY, JULY 2ND............ FEATURING ORCHESTRA KENTUCKY, PATRIOTIC FAVORITES, AND SPECIAL REMARKS FROM LOCAL VETERANS.           THE EVENT...

radioNOVO News KY News Roundup for June 25, 2026

radioNOVO News PA News Roundup for June 25, 2026

Good morning.  We begin with the final certified tallies from Tuesday’s primary elections. In the Hudson Valley’s pivotal seventeenth congressional district, Army veteran Cait Conley has officially secured the Democratic nomination, setting up a high-stakes November battle against Republican incumbent Mike Lawler. Meanwhile, in Central New York, the Democratic primary for the one-hundred-and-twent...

Good morning. I’m Codi Gaboff with your West Virginia State morning roundup. We begin with an update on severe weather recovery. Displaced residents across southern West Virginia are beginning the arduous task of cleaning up after Pond Fork jumped its banks, sparking major flash flooding along Route eighty-five. The community of Bim saw multiple homes heavily damaged, while floodwaters completely...

Good morning. Parkersburg City Council has rejected a resident-led petition appeal in a narrow five-to-four vote, upholding the city clerk’s decision to block a public referendum on the city’s upcoming sanitation contract with Waste Management. Legal advocates argue the over three-thousand signatures gathered are valid and have already filed an appeal in Wood County Circuit Court. Meanwhile, the l...

Good morning. Regional election boards are finalizing tallies from Tuesday's competitive primary races. In Allegany County, local attorney and Almond Town Justice Dawn Wildrick-Cole secured a decisive victory in the Republican primary for County Court Judge, capturing forty-seven percent of the vote to secure a clear path to the bench this November. On the Democratic side, St. Bonaventure Uni...

Good morning. Steuben and Chemung county election boards are finishing up tallies from Tuesday’s competitive primary races. In the high-profile race for Chemung County Executive, legislative chairman Mark Margeson staged a decisive Republican upset, defeating two-term incumbent Christopher Moss. On the Steuben County side, local GOP voters selected Norman Maynard for Campbell Town Supervisor and P...

Good morning. A hundred-year-old Lawrence County resident has officially become a high school graduate. Egidio James Vascetti left New Castle High School as a seventeen-year-old in nineteen-forty-four to enlist in the U.S. Navy during World War Two, completing eighteen trips across the Atlantic. Exactly eighty-two years later, the school board voted unanimously to present the veteran and former lo...

Good morning. Crawford Central School Board members have unanimously approved a six-point-three-one percent property tax increase, marking the district's largest tax hike in over twenty years. Officials say the increase is necessary to fund a record seventy-one-million-dollar budget, driven primarily by skyrocketing employee healthcare costs and upcoming union contract negotiations. Meanwhile...

Good morning. Legislation authored by regional Representative Mike Armanini to strengthen local drug investigations is heading to the governor's desk after passing the state Senate unanimously. House Bill 1344 establishes strict training and certification standards for police K-nine units to safely detect fentanyl. Armanini originally developed the bill following a direct request from DuBois...

RNN SELINSGROVE 06/24/26           A UNION COUNTY JUDGE HAS ADVANCED ALL CHARGES AGAINST A FORMER WHITE DEER TOWNSHIP COUPLE ACCUSED OF HORRIFIC CHILD ABUSE.  46-YEAR OLD ALLEN KEISTER FACES MULTIPLE FELONY COUNTS, INCLUDING THE RAPE OF A CHILD OVER AN EIGHT-YEAR PERIOD.  HIS WIFE, MELISSA KEISTER, IS CHARGED WITH CHILD ENDANGERMENT AFTER ALLEGEDLY LOCKING THE VICTIM UNDER A STAIRCASE WITHOUT FOOD...

radioNOVO News for Lebanon: June 24, 2026

RNN JOHNSTOWN 06/24/26           SOMERSET COUNTY EMERGENCY OFFICIALS SAY FREE LIFE JACKETS LIKELY SAVED SEVEN TEENAGERS FROM DROWNING AT THE QUEMAHONING RESERVOIR ON SATURDAY.           THE TEENS WERE PADDLEBOARDING WHEN HIGH WINDS PUSHED THEM DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO THE DAM'S SPILLWAY. OFFICIALS SAY THE GROUP SURVIVED BY ABANDONING THEIR BOARDS AND FLOATING IN LIFE VESTS BORROWED FROM A LOCAL N...