radioNOVO News for New Castle/Youngstown/Butler/Hermitage 06-22-26

Good morning.Property owners in five Lawrence County school districts will see their taxes go up this year. Ellwood City, Laurel, Neshannock, Shenango, and Wilmington school boards have all officially approved millage rate increases in their newly adopted budgets to combat rising deficits. For Ellwood City taxpayers, it marks the fifth consecutive year of tax hikes.In regional business news, a Brookfield water treatment firm is under intense national scrutiny. Greenwater Services was awarded a one-point-seven-million-dollar no-bid federal contract to install an advanced algae-clearing system at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The project is drawing heavy criticism after the pool immediately suffered a massive algae bloom, turning the water bright green.And a major weekend accident on Route four-twenty-two in Butler County sent two people to Pittsburgh hospitals. Emergency dispatchers say a motorcycle and a passenger vehicle collided near Unionville Road in Franklin Township, forcing a medical helicopter to fly one victim from the scene.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.