radioNOVO News for Clarion 08-12-26

Good morning.A new book by Brookville historian Eric Armstrong is shedding light on the darker chapters of local history. Swift Justice details the public hangings held at the Jefferson County Courthouse between 1867 and 1907, highlighting the improvised gallows, the harsh bias against immigrant mine workers at the turn of the century, and the unsolved 1919 cold case of a ten-year-old boy found in a barn.Meanwhile, lack of a quorum forced the Clarion County Prison Board to limit its August meeting to operational reviews. Board members discussed recent state inspection findings—which mostly involved minor inventory discrepancies—and reviewed reentry programs currently serving 58 local participants through house arrest and electronic monitoring.And state police have released details on a fatal single-vehicle crash in Venango County. Authorities report twenty-six-year-old Andrew Malone of Titusville lost his life on August fourth after his vehicle went off Route 157 in Pinegrove Township and struck a tree.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.