radioNOVO News for NWPA 05-29-26

Good morning,Hundreds of regional small investors are learning their equity is likely worthless following the sudden sale of Voodoo Brewing Company. In a Tuesday email, Chairman Matthew Rachocki stated that those who backed a half-million-dollar crowdfunding campaign in 2024 should prepare for a complete financial loss. The news follows recent closures of Voodoo’s corporate pubs in Meadville and Erie, alongside an active million-dollar lease lawsuit in Pittsburgh.Meanwhile, utility-scale clean energy is heading to rural Crawford County. Officials say construction begins soon on a massive, 139-acre solar farm in Athens Township. The 20-megawatt facility is projected to be fully online by September and will generate enough electricity to power 2,500 area homes annually.And local eighth-graders are stepping up as civic leaders. Twenty-four students at Meadville Area Middle School just presented real-world community upgrade proposals to local officials, with two $1,000 grants from the Crawford Heritage Community Foundation on the line to fund the winning projects.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.