radioNOVO News for New Castle/Youngstown/Butler/Hermitage 06-09-26

Good morning.A critical week of budget decisions is underway as five Lawrence County school boards prepare to vote on property tax rates. The biggest potential financial hits come from Ellwood City and Laurel, where officials are considering property tax hikes to the state maximum of four-point-nine percent. New Castle Area is the only local district projected to keep taxes level.In Volant, a long-running legal battle over Main Street's public restrooms has ended. Merchants secured a settlement after suing the borough over thousands of dollars in fees paid for bathrooms that had actually been closed since twenty-twelve.And New Castle’s Steel City Bear Productions is releasing its gritty thriller "Race to Save Christmas" on DVD today, ahead of a major streaming release this fall.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News.