Montgomery County Sheriff Robert Dierks announced today that three Coffeyville residents are in the Montgomery County Jail today following the execution of a search warrant in Coffeyville during the evening hours of Jan. 19.

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Inclement weather has forced the postponement of Thursday’s games at the Wilson County Classic, a mid-season basketball tournament in Fredonia.

Thursday’s games will now be played on Friday, Jan. 21, along with the regularly-scheduled games for Friday.

Here are the games involving area teams to be played in the women’s bracket on Friday:

• Cherryvale vs. Neodesha, 3 p.m., Old Gym.

• Caney Valley vs. Girard, 6:45 p.m., New Gym.

Games involving the men’s bracket on Friday include:

• Caney Valley vs. Erie, 5 p.m., New Gym

• Cherryvale vs. Girard, 8:15 p.m., Old Gym.

Newcomer to Lincoln-Central Elementary School designs
greeting cards to build orphanages, foster hope in Haiti, Africa

BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

CHERRYVALE — One year after the country of Haiti was largely pulverized by a massive earthquake, a Cherryvale grade school student is raising money to build orphanages and community homes in that impoverished  island nation.

However, the generous efforts of Isabelle Redford, a third grade student at Cherryvale’s Lincoln-Central Elementary School, began long before that jarring earthquake in January 2010.

It started several years ago when Redford, then living in Parsons, heard a story from her mother, Kelly Redford, about two orphaned infants in Haiti — babies who were left without parents when the mother died during childbirth. Upon learning that Haiti has a high number of orphan children, the young Redford asked what she could do to help.
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BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

Montgomery County holds the distinction of being the home to three state debate championship teams following state tournaments last Saturday.

Caney Valley, Field Kindley and Independence each brought home state champion debate teams, marking an unusual-yet-astounding feat for Montgomery County.
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CHERRYVALE — Dollar General, which opened the doors to its new location at 312 S. Liberty two weeks ago, will hold a grand opening of its new store at 8 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 22.

At the grand opening event, customers will enjoy special deals and free prizes. The first 50 shoppers at the store will receive a $10 Dollar General gift card and the first 200 shoppers will receive a Dollar General tote bag, among other giveaways.
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An erratic driver traveling through a wreck zone on 10th Street Road south of Independence last Thursday was arrested along with two others.

Sheriff Robert Dierks said sheriff’s deputies were conducting traffic control on county road 3900, or 10th Street Road, as a wrecker was removing a vehicle from a ditch. While slowing traffic around the wrecker, an erratic driver traveled through the zone.

Cited was Charles A. Alderman of 708 S. Fourth, Independence, for driving under the influence and being in possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
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BREAKING NEWS: Gathering information about the partial collapse of the American Family Insurance office building at Penn and Myrtle in downtown Independence. No injuries reported. Damage confined to an upper level and south wall. More details later. Photo courtesy of Geremi DeGraw.

A Toronto, Kan., woman was kill and two Neodesha people were injured in a two-vehicle wreck on an icy highway in Montgomery County on Monday, Jan. 10.

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Jim Kelly of Independence wins the 12th Kansas House District Repubilcan nomination to succeed Jeff King as state representative.  Kelly to assume oath of office on Monday.  More details later.