radioNOVO News for NWPA 08-21-26

Good morning.Conneaut Lake Park Water Corporation has filed a major rate hike request with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. If approved, the three-year plan would raise overall company revenues by nearly seventy-eight percent, with unmetered residential monthly bills jumping from thirty-eight dollars to over fifty-one dollars in the first year alone to cover rising operational costs.In higher education, Allegheny College in Meadville has once again been recognized among the nation’s premier institutions by The Princeton Review. In addition to being named one of the "Best Three-Hundred-Ninety-Two Colleges," Allegheny ranked in the top twenty nationwide for most accessible professors.And in Cambridge Springs, plans for a new twenty-foot gazebo in Marcy Park are causing friction. While borough leaders say the larger structure will attract community events, members of the local garden club say the expanded footprint will displace flower beds and memorials they’ve maintained for twenty-five years.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.