The Point Rocks | radioNOVO News for NWPA 06-10-26
Good morning.A terrifying vehicle explosion inside the Allegheny Mountain Tunnel forced the chaotic evacuation of one-hundred-fifty stranded motorists on the Penn Turnpike. Shanksville fire crews battled thick smoke and toxic carbon monoxide to extinguish the commercial truck, while the driver was airlifted following an unrelated medical emergency. No fatalities were reported.In local business news, Meadville neighbors are taking matters into their own hands. The Meadville Doggie Daycare Cooperative has officially launched a fifteen-thousand-dollar crowdfunding campaign to cover startup costs and open the city's first member-owned pet care facility later this summer.And financial relief is on the way for local families. The state has begun distributing one-hundred-three-million dollars in federal SUN Bucks benefits, which will automatically provide a one-hundred-twenty-dollar summer grocery booster to over eight-hundred-sixty-thousand eligible children across Pennsylvania.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.