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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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BY ANDY TAYLOR
“This Is My Montgomery County” — a regular featur series

INDEPENDENCE — On first glance, Phyllis Mills would not appear to be a person intrigued with death and mayhem.

With a quiet voice, a continual slight grin, bespectacled eyes and a generous top of silvery-white hair, Mills looks like the type of person who would serve as a greeter at a Sunday church service.

Even with her grandmotherly glow, and charm, Mills has taken on an inglorious task that has revealed the darkest chapters of Montgomery County history.

As a volunteer genealogist at the Independence Public Library, Mills has started a compilation of newspaper articles chronicling the murders that have taken place ever since the county’s earliest and most unruly days.
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BY ANDY  TAYLOR
Montgomery County Chronicle

CANEY — USD 436 will be the subject of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights following a complaint that was filed by a school patron.
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BY ANDY TAYLOR
Montgomery County Chronicle

CHERRYVALE — Failure by Cherryvale city officials in 2006 to fill out the appropriate paperwork to keep the community designated as a “dry” town has led to the discovery that Cherryvale is technically considered “wet.”

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An 18-year-old Independence man is the victim of a shooting incident that took place in the 600 block of East Third street in Coffeyville late Wednesday night, June 17.

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