Death notices are published on the Montgomery County Chronicle website as a service to area readers who may not receive timely funeral information before services. Complete obituaries are printed each week in the Montgomery County Chronicle

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Two drivers were injured and 10 cattle had to be euthanized following a collision between a car and a cattle truck near the U.S. 400-169 highway junction north of Cherryvale on Sunday afternoon.

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Coronation of the 2010 Winter Sports Homecoming King and Queen will be held next Friday, Feb. 12, at Field Kindley High School in Coffeyville.  Five FKHS seniors are vying for the queen crown. They include (front row, left to right) Danielle Bromley, Kyra Colbert, LaToya Johnson, Kelsey Buetow and Lauren Cox. King candidates include (back row, left to right) Jeffry Brown, Blake Parker, Neil Barnes, Zachary Mitchell and Nathan Miller.  The Field Kindley Golden Tornado will host the Columbus Titans in the homecoming basketball games.  (Photo by Andy Taylor)

CANEY — The Caney Valley High School Playmakers will brighten the stage of the CVHS Auditorium with the theatrical presentation of “Just Another High School Play.”

The play will be held on Friday, Feb. 5 for Caney Valley Jr.-Sr. High School students. Two public performances are scheduled: 7 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 6 and 3 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 7.

Admission is $4 for adults and $2 for students.
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Word has been received that members of the Kansas Army National Guard’s 226th Engineering Company arrived in Afghanistan earlier this week as part of a one-year stint with Operation Enduring Freedom. The 226th company includes detachments from Cherryvale and Pittsburg and its company headquarters in Augusta. The company had spent the past month at Fort McCoy, Wis., undergoing training. These 226th company members were photographed during a a prayer held at a departure ceremony in Salina, Kan., on Dec. 30. (Photo courtesy Kansas Adjutant General’s Office)

BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

COFFEYVILLE — The Coffeyville Historical Society will be recipient of a $16,900 state grant to be used for continued restoration of the Brown Mansion.

The $16,900 state grant — combined with $25,350 of the society’s own money — will be used to re-glaze and refinish the wood windows at the Brown Mansion located on South Walnut Street. Now a popular tourist destination, the 1906-era mansion has been designated as an American Treasure by the National Park Service. The mansion is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

CHERRYVALE — More than $120,000 in state funds will be used in Cherryvale to assist the town with an upgrade of Main Street later this year.

The City of Cherryvale was notified last week that it was a recipient of a $120,408 Community Development Block Grant which will be used to upgrade Main Street, from Liberty Street to Montgomery Street. The City of Cherryvale will match the grant dollar for dollar, bringing the total project to more than $240,800.
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BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

The formal ceremony will likely be held in March to signal the change of ownership of the Cherryvale’s Kansas Army National Guard Armory to the City of Cherryvale.

City administrator Greg McDanel told city councilors at Monday’s meeting of plans by the Kansas Army National Guard’s top brass to hold a formal ceremony — likely in early March — as the armory is closed. The City of Cherryvale has agreed to accept ownership of the building, which is slated to officially take place on Feb. 28.
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