radioNOVO News for Parkersburg, WV 07-02-26

Good morning.The West Virginia Lottery Commission granted a last-minute emergency license renewal for the Greenbrier Resort casino, avoiding a midnight shutdown. The renewal requires mandatory quarterly financial reviews after state audits revealed the resort's liabilities skyrocketed from ninety million to two hundred sixty million dollars in a single year. Consultants noted the casino remains profitable but faces a major capital deficit and owes over four million dollars in back taxes.Meanwhile, Downtown P-K-B has altered its holiday entertainment plans due to the severe extreme heat warning. Friday evening's free performance of the musical seventeen-seventy-six has been moved from Bicentennial Park into the air-conditioned Wood County Resiliency Center on Market Street to protect the cast and audience.And a local Marietta couple is celebrating a rare double milestone. Neighbors Richard and Phyllis Holley were recognized at the Glenwood Community this week to mark both their seventy-fifth wedding anniversary and their respective one-hundredth birthdays.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.