Cherryvale city administrator Trey Cocking was hired as the city manager in Atchison, Kan., on Monday night.

The Atchison City Commission on Monday voted 5-0 to hire Cocking with a starting salary of $77,500.

The Cherryvale City Council is scheduled to hold a special meeting at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 1, at City Hall to consider Cocking’s resignation and how to instigate a search for his replacement.

Cocking has served as Cherryvale city administrator since July 2006.

More details about Cocking’s resignation as Cherryvale city administrator will be forthcoming on this website and in the Sept. 3 edition of the Montgomery County Chronicle.

BY CHUCK REED
Coffeyville Community College

COFFEYVILLE — When Jay Herkelman took over the reins of the Coffeyville Community College men’s basketball program in 1995, he inherited a team in disarray. The Red Ravens were coming off a 3-26 season and two of those wins were garnered by forfeits.

Herkelman replaced the roster and led Coffeyville to a 26-7 record and the Jayhawk East conference title in his first season. Since then, Coffeyville has enjoyed considerable success.  In the past decade, the Ravens have won five Region 6 championships, won eight conference titles over the past nine seasons, and have placed at the national tournament five times.

Not bad for a small community college that is an hour’s drive from the nearest metropolitan city.

The string of success was noted by the magazine Basketball Times in their August 2009 issue. The publication rated Coffeyville as the nation’s third best junior college program in the 2000s.
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