INDEPENDENCE — Two people were injured in a two-vehicle collision on U.S. 160 highway west of county road 4500 on Friday morning, March 5.
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Cherryvale High School varsity men’s basketball team will play in the finals of the class 3A sub-state tournament in Frontenac, Kan., on Saturday night, March 6.

Cherryvale defeated Baxter Springs, 44-40, in the tournament’s semi-final game on Thursday.

The Chargers will play Galena in the sub-state title game.  Galena defeated Caney Valley, 62-41, on Thursday.

The winner of the Cherryvale/Galena game will advance to the class 3A state tournament in Hutchinson, Kan., on March 10-13.

BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

INDEPENDENCE — County commissioners expressed interest in acquiring the Washington School property, which is located north of the Montgomery County Judicial Center.

The school property will be vacated sometime in 2012 due to the construction of a new elementary school near Eisenhower Elementary School in Independence. The USD 446 Board of Education has agreed to seek offers for the sale of that school property.

County commissioners toured the school building two weeks ago to determine its usefulness for county efforts. While some county residents have hinted that the school could be used as a site for a juvenile detention facility, commissioners on Monday were reluctant to put that idea into blueprints.
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BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Whether it’s the soda pop you drink, the pizza you eat, or the antacids you ingest to calm the effects of both, it’s a guarantee that each of those actions will have been approved or regulated to some degree by the Food and Drug Administration.

And, it’s Beth Martino’s job to tell you if your cola is unsafe to guzzle, your pizza is unfit for consumption, or your antacids are concocted from unsafe sources.

On Monday, Martino, a 1998 graduate of Caney Valley High School, assumed the position of FDA’s associate commissioner for external affairs — a job where she oversees and manages the flow of information from the administration to the rest of the nation.
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CHERRYVALE — The ceremonial closure of the Kansas Army National Guard Armory in Cherryvale will be held at 1 p.m., Saturday, March 6.

The Kansas Adjutant General in December announced the closure of the Cherryvale armory along with 17 other National Guard armories across Kansas. The City of Cherryvale has agreed to assume ownership of the armory with plans of converting the facility into a community recreation facility.
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BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

COFEYVILLE — After months of construction, Coffeyville’s new Walmart Supercenter will officially open to customers at 8 a.m., Wednesday, March 17.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held at 7:30 a.m., with community and business leaders and members of the Coffeyville Chamber of Commerce joining Walmart associates for the store’s debut.
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Montgomery County native Mitch Rolls, a starting point guard for Colgate University, was named to the Patriot League’s All-Rookie Team for the 2009-10 season.

Rolls, who played his first two prep seasons at Caney Valley High School before finishing his high school career at Field Kindley High School, played in all 28 regular-season games with 24 starting assignments for the Colgate Raiders. Rolls is fourth on the team in scoring with 6.8 points per game and leads the team with 99 assists and is fifth in the Patriot League with 3.5 assists per game.

Over the last five games Rolls has averaged 12.6 points and 5.4 assists per game. Rolls is also one assist shy of 100 this season, he would be the first Raider to accomplish that feat since Dave Hardy dished out 120 during the 2002-03 campaign.

“Being a first year point guard normally comes with some growing pains but over the last two months of the season Mitch has been playing at a very high level, said Colgate head coach Emmett Davis. “He is running the team with the confidence of an upperclassman and this has been one of the main reasons that we have been able to go 4-3 during the second half of league play.”

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