radioNOVO News for NWPA 07-06-26

Good morning.A high-profile property dispute pitting a long-serving Crawford County judge against his own family was the centerpiece of a hearing in the Court of Common Pleas. Magisterial District Judge Lincoln Zilhaver is petitioning the court to permanently seal all records regarding a lawsuit filed by his brother, Cody Zilhaver, who wants to force the sale of their family farm. Judge Zilhaver testified that sealing the financial records and security upgrades is necessary to protect himself and his elderly father from disgruntled defendants, though opposing attorneys argue the public record should remain open.Meanwhile, local prevention planners are reviewing the newly released results of the twenty-twenty-five Pennsylvania Youth Survey. The data shows positive overall trends for Crawford County teenagers, including a steady decline in depression, sadness, and teen vaping over the last two years. However, coordinators note that local high school senior marijuana and binge-drinking numbers still track significantly higher than the overall state average.And thousands of regional visitors gathered over the weekend for the forty-fourth annual Ashtabula County Antique Engine Club Show in nearby Wayne Township. Despite extreme summer temperatures rising well into the nineties, volunteers operated a functioning historic early-nineteen-hundreds sawmill alongside a patriotic regional quilt display and blacksmith exhibits.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.