radioNOVO News for NWPA 07-16-26

Good morning, The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has issued a statewide Code Red Air Quality Alert for today. Thick smoke from wildfires in Canada and Minnesota is moving across the region, creating highly unhealthy breathing conditions. Officials urge everyone to limit strenuous outdoor activities.Tens of thousands of retired Pennsylvania teachers, state workers, and first responders are finally getting a pension boost. The state’s new budget includes long-overdue cost-of-living adjustments, funded entirely by rising state online gaming revenues.In Vernon Township, a massive new Goodwill superstore is officially open this morning. Taking over the old Joann Fabrics space in the Park Avenue Plaza, the twelve-thousand-square-foot store brings nearly thirty new jobs to the Meadville area.And Crawford County officials are inviting Venango Township landowners to a July thirtieth meeting to learn how to protect their agricultural acreage from future development restrictions.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.