Among the items of business transacted at the June 29 meeting of the Montgomery County Commission:

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BY ANDY TAYLOR

CHERRYVALE — Voices of protest concerning the proposed closure of county road 6000 north of Cherryvale has prompted the South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad to seek another possible location for its rail switch yard.
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Area residents are being advised to not respond to an online survey allegedly sent from a Coffeyville bank.
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BY ANDY  TAYLOR
Montgomery County Chronicle

CHERRYVALE — Montgomery County commissioners got an earful of concerns Monday concerning a proposed closure of county road 6000 (also known as 24000 Road or Old U.S. 160 highway) north of Cherryvale.
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BY ANDY  TAYLOR
Montgomery County Chronicle

Caney’s Safari Zoological Park will celebrate two celebratory milestones next week.

The first milestone will be the release of “Tiger Cubs,” a book written by zoo owners Tom and Allie Harvey about the birth of three tiger cubs in 2007 and their sebsequent “adoption” by family pet Isabella, a golden retriever dog. Isabella served as a surrogate mother for the tiger cubs after the cubs’ biological mother abandoned them after their birth. The fact that a dog became the mother to three members of the feline family became grounds of national and global media attention, and the Caney Safari Zoological Park was the subject of news stories across the globe.
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