radioNOVO News for Olean/Hornell 07-21-26

Good morning.New York State Electric and Gas has completed a major infrastructure overhaul at its Meyer Substation, doubling the facility’s previous power capacity. Utility crews installed new transformers and circuit breakers to modernize the grid and protect more than six-thousand local customers from severe weather blackouts. Regional development leaders say the expanded capacity will help attract new manufacturing facilities and bring fresh jobs to rural communities.Meanwhile, the historic one-hundred-and-eighty-first Allegany County Fair is officially underway at the Angelica fairgrounds. Families heading to the event this week can catch truck pulls tonight, a live professional rodeo tomorrow, and an expanded midway featuring nineteen carnival rides.And the Cattaraugus County Health Department is advising residents to monitor local air quality indexes this week. Health officials warn fine particulate matter from ongoing Canadian wildfires continues to impact regional air quality.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.