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Section A
- Oil City, and Surrounding Areas.

Section B
- Oil and Gas, Coal, Timber, Farming

Section C
- Franklin /  Sugar Creek.

Section D
- Financial, Utilities, Transit and Real Estate.

Section E
- Health.

Section F
- Leisure, Tourism

Section G
- Education.

Section H
- Clarion.

Section I
- Clarion.

Section_A

Security system set up

A new courthouse security system went into effect in early January in the

Venango County courthouse.

A new courthouse security system went into effect in early January in the

Venango County courthouse.

The system requires general users to enter by the front door of the

courthouse and pass through a metal detector while their belongings are

scanned by an X-ray machine.

County employees, law enforcement officers and professional users, such as

attorneys, may enter through the rear door using official identification or

a county identification badge. The rear entrance will continue to be the

point of entry for those in wheelchairs and those with other disabilities

until the front entrance is modified for handicapped-accessibility.

Venango County Sheriff Gene Price said the system came about at the

insistence of Senior Judge H. William White.

Price said the county commissioners made funding available for the system

which is monitored and operated by members of his department. Pennsylvania,

he said, is one of the last courthouses in Pennsylvania to get it.

The goal, said the sheriff, is to make the system “as user-friendly as

possible.”