radioNOVO News for NWPA 05-26-26

Good morning, We begin with a tragic holiday accident. State police say a twenty-year-old Harborcreek man was killed yesterday afternoon following a collision between a car and a motorcycle on Route Ninety-Nine near Hershey Road. Investigators kept the roadway closed for hours to reconstruct the scene.Meanwhile, local drivers face a brutal post-holiday commute. Triple A reports state gas prices have hit a four-year holiday high, with regular unleaded averaging four-sixty a gallon. Expect lingering traffic delays this morning as a record number of regional commuters head back to work.And in Meadville, a controversial luxury housing plan is moving forward. The Zoning Hearing Board approved a special exception for developer Todd Joseph to transform thirty classrooms in the vacant East End Elementary School into senior apartments. However, the plan faces backlash, with board members questioning why the Crawford Central School District sold the building just years after spending six and a half million dollars on upgrades.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.