BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

COFFEYVILLE — City commissioners gave their formal approval to setting Dec. 1 as the official date for a special election concerning a proposed city sales taxes for street improvements.
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Listed below are schedules of the class 3A sub-state volleyball tournaments to be held on Saturday, Oct. 24.
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The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has issued an Emergency Order of Suspension against Independence Day Care Center Inc., a licensed child care center operated by Independence Day Care Center Inc., located at 200 Arco Place, Box 742, Independence.

State law allows the Secretary of KDHE to issue such an order when, in the opinion of the Secretary, the order is necessary to protect children in the home from any potential threat to health or safety.

The order is subject to appeal to the Secretary.

BY ANDY TAYLOR

Engineering and architectural firms will soon be asked to prepare a preliminary design and construction plans for new Cherryvale municipal swimming pool, city councilors said Monday.
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The USD 447 Board of Education has issued its first formal response to a lawsuit brought against it by the Cherryvale Teachers’ Association.
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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
chronicle@taylornews.org

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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