radioNOVO News for NWPA for 05-21-26

Good morning,Crawford County has appointed a new Emergency Management Agency coordinator for the first time in nearly two decades. Don Bovard, an eighteen-year veteran of local emergency response, will succeed Allen Clark. To offset federal funding cuts, county commissioners have combined the coordinator and training officer positions under Bovard, a move expected to save ninety-thousand dollars annually.Meanwhile, a recent college graduate is being hailed a hero after saving a choking student at a Meadville elementary school. Devin Keidel, who just graduated from PennWest Edinboro, was student teaching at West End Elementary when she noticed a student in distress at lunchtime. Utilizing her first-aid training, Keidel jumped in and successfully performed the Heimlich maneuver.And a Franklin man is headed to trial on multiple felony charges involving a child. Thirty-year-old Riley Nicholas Brown waived his preliminary hearing. West Mead Township police arrested Brown following an investigation into allegations of sexual contact with an eleven-year-old girl. Brown is currently free on a seventy-five-thousand-dollar bond.More news on our radioNOVO app -- Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.