A Cherryvale man was arrested on Tuesday, March 2 following the discovery of illegal drugs at his home.
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The Field Kindley High School men’s basketball team will play Nickerson in the first round of the class 4A state tournament in Salina, Kan., on Thursday, March 11. Tipoff will be at 4:45 p.m., at the Salina Bicentennial Center.
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From the class 3A sub-state basketball tournament championship games in Frontenac:  Frontenac girls 45, Caney Valley 37 (final);  Galena boys 49, Cherryvale 37 (final).

The USD 445 Board of Education meeting for Monday, March 8, includes the following several items of business. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m.
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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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