Among the sports stories you’ll read in the Oct. 22 Montgomery County Chronicle . . .
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FREDONIA — The girls’ golf team at Caney Valley High School is bound for the class 3-2-1A state tournament next Monday in Great Bend.
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INDEPENDENCE — The Independence USD 446 Board of Education encourages community members, students and school personnel to offer their naming suggestions for the new Independence elementary school.
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BY ANDY TAYLOR
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INDEPENDENCE — A decision by the Montgomery County Commission in 2008 to grant pay increases to county employees — without money being provided in the 2009 budget to fund those pay hikes — is now being felt in the county courthouse.
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The City of Cherryvale has received $95,000 in grant funds from USDA/Rural Development to establish a $100,000 revolving loan fund for local businesses.
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INDEPENDENCE — When a situation arises that seems so absurdly bizarre or extraordinary, a person will mutter the phrase “when pigs fly.”
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BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

COFFEYVILLE — Coffeyville city voters will be asked to go to the polls on Tuesday, Dec. 1, to consider increasing the city sales tax rate by one-half cent.

The sales tax, if approved, would be devoted solely to street improvements in the city. If the sales tax question is approved by city voters, the city street improvement sales tax would be collected starting on April 1, 2010.
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BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

COFFEYVILLE — City commissioners on Tuesday vehemently objected to the conduct of city commissioner Jim Taylor, Sr., concerning Taylor’s comments made about various city matters in letters to the editor in a Coffeyville newspaper.

One city commissioner, R.J. Warren, even went as far as asking Taylor to resign his seat from the commission, saying that Taylor’s continued comments have led to a disruption of city government.

“What we’re getting at is this: quit your lying,” Warren said to Taylor at Tuesday’s meeting. “That’s misconduct in office.”
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BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

COFFEYVILLE — A Kansas City developer came to Coffeyville on Tuesday to clear the air about plans to develop a low- to moderate-income apartment complex in the downtown business district.

Tuesday’s meeting, which was called by the Downtown Coffeyville, Inc., was not the first time that Gary Hassenflu of Garrison Properties in Kansas City had expressed plans for a downtown project. In fact, he has been working with City of Coffeyville officials for more than two years to get some type of housing project off the ground.
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