CANEY — Caney’s only grocery store, Floyd’s Town and Country, will close its doors on Sunday evening, March 13.
Manager Bill Floyd said the Caney community has not supported the store with sufficient business to keep it open. Merchandise will be moved to the Floyd’s Supermarket in Sedan.
Floyd said he has enjoyed working in the Caney community, but in recent months  it has become increasingly apparent that the store lacked the volume needed to keep it open.

BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

CANEY — Almost a half century of daily diaries — whose author recorded everything from the price of milk to the daily weather — have been pulled away from a once-certain doom in a landfill.

It happened about one year ago in Caney, where city crews were making stops on their daily trash collection circuit.

They noticed a normal looking box sitting next to some trash cans filled with a week’s worth of food scraps, old newspapers and a few dirty diapers.

But when a trash collector attempted to throw the box into the trash truck, one of the diaries somehow fell from the box and hit the ground — as if saying “look at me.”
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BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

CANEY — To those people who scoff at the notion of small-town life, believe government employees are not effective with their work, and have the notion that God does not answer prayers, then let the story of Alpha Ross change your mind.

Ross, an elderly Caney resident, lives by herself and has tended to herself without any assistance. She admits her octogenarian years are slowing her pace and her body, however she still makes her own food, drives herself to the store, and cleans her own home.

That was precisely what she was doing on the afternoon of Thursday, March 25 when, after taking a bath, she decided to clean her bathtub.
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BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

CANEY — Details about the unsolved 1970 murder of Osage County rancher E.C. Mullendore III may soon be revealed with the words of a Caney man lending a key to the crime.

The Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise revealed Tuesday that one of its columnists, Dale Lewis, who is known in the newspaper as the Original Buffalo Dale, had been subpoenaed last week to testify in a multi-county grand jury in Oklahoma City as the grand jury investigates the murder of E.C. Mullendore III. Mullendore was beaten and shot to death at his vast ranch headquartered in northeastern Osage County, Okla., on Sept. 26, 1970. The ranch headquarters were less than seven miles from Caney while the ranch itself abutted many properties in the rural Caney area.
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BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

In the event you saw a traffic jam on South Wood Street on Halloween night, your eyes were not deceiving you.
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BY ANDY  TAYLOR
Montgomery County Chronicle

CANEY — City councilors on Monday night failed to garner enough votes to allow single-wide mobile homes to be placed outside the city limits but within the city’s zoning jurisdiction.
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BY ANDY  TAYLOR
Montgomery County Chronicle

Caney’s Safari Zoological Park will celebrate two celebratory milestones next week.

The first milestone will be the release of “Tiger Cubs,” a book written by zoo owners Tom and Allie Harvey about the birth of three tiger cubs in 2007 and their sebsequent “adoption” by family pet Isabella, a golden retriever dog. Isabella served as a surrogate mother for the tiger cubs after the cubs’ biological mother abandoned them after their birth. The fact that a dog became the mother to three members of the feline family became grounds of national and global media attention, and the Caney Safari Zoological Park was the subject of news stories across the globe.
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