radioNOVO News for Dubois/Clarion/Brookville 06-17-26

Good morning. A high-speed police chase through Jefferson County has a twenty-one-year-old man facing a mountain of criminal charges. Authorities report Chandler James Nolet waived his preliminary hearing in Brookville after being hit with a felony count of fleeing law enforcement, twenty-one traffic violations, and eight counts of recklessly endangering another person. He remains jailed this morning on twenty-thousand dollars bail.In local government, DuBois city leaders are pitching a ten-year tax break program to attract developers and tackle a severe regional housing shortage. The proposal was presented to the DuBois Area School Board, but Board President Robert Wachob is pushing back, stating the problem isn’t taxes, but rather a lack of local contractors to build homes fast enough.And DuBois City Park recently served as the backdrop for a solemn community ceremony honoring a traveling, full-scale replica of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, paying tribute to the nation's unidentified fallen heroes.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.