radioNOVO News for Dubois/Clarion/Brookville 06-03-26

Good morning,Passenger traffic at the DuBois Regional Airport has hit a five-year low, prompting concern from airport officials. Despite an impressive ninety-eight percent reliability rate from Southern Airways Express, only about seven hundred passengers used the airport in April. To boost numbers, the airline has slashed prices, offering one-way tickets to Pittsburgh for nineteen dollars and Washington Dulles for thirty-nine dollars, if booked three weeks in advance.Meanwhile, families across Elk and Cameron counties are celebrating the wrap-up of the month-long "Remake Learning" program. Sponsored by the local Community Education Center, the wizard-themed event drew hundreds of families downtown for hands-on activities, including paper airplane flight schools and outdoor science quests.And the DuBois Country Club will host the annual Champions of the PA Wilds Awards next month. Local winners include Claire and Rusty Orner of Quiet Creek Herb Farm for conservation, and Marie Lewis of Pine Springs Pottery, named Artisan of the Year.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.