BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

Former Coffeyville city commissioner Virgil Horn, Jr., on Tuesday was selected to fill a vacant city position on the city commission.

By a 3-1 vote, Horn was chosen to succeed commissioner Jim Taylor, Sr., who resigned his commission post on April 5. Horn will continue to serve the remainder of Taylor’s term, which ends in April 2013.
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COFFEYVILLE — Coffeyville Police Department and the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department arrested three Coffeyville residents after the discovery of an active methamphetamine laboratory inside a local home.

Commander Diane George of the Coffeyville Police Department said a search warrant was executed at 615 W. 8th, Apartment 3, in Coffeyville on Monday. During the search of the premises, law enforcement deputies found an active meth lab in the kitchen of the residence. Marijuana as well as paraphernalia were seized as a result of the search warrant.
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COFFEYVILLE — An elderly Coffeyville woman died from exposure to freezing weather Wednesday, Feb. 2, after falling in her yard.

Commander Mike Brown of the Coffeyville Police Department said Reba George, age 79, was found in her back yard at 3601 W. Seventh.  Brown said George died in the freezing weather have apparently leaving her house to remove snow from around her home.  It appears that George had fallen and was unable to get back up.

Brown said there were no signs of foul play, and George’s death is being  ruled as an accidental death due to exposure.

One of George’s neighbors contacted the police to inquire about her welfare after George had not been seen or contacted for an extended period of time.

Two final arrests have been made in the round-up of outstanding arrest warrants involving residents in Coffeyville and Independence.

Montgomery County Sheriff Robert Dierks said Nathan L. Beck, age 27, of Independence was arrested at his home in Independence. Beck was arrested on a warrant alleging sale of methamphetamine, arranging the sale of narcotics using a telephone, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Also arrested was Alberee L. Johnson, age 20, of Coffeyville. Johnson was arrested following a traffic stop in Bartlesville. Johnson was arrested on a warrant alleging two counts of sale of cocaine, two counts of arranging the sale of narcotics using a telephone, and two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia.
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COFFEYVILLE — The Coffeyville Police Department is investigating twin deaths of a Coffeyville father and son on Monday.

Police investigated the sound of a gunshot in the 600 block of West First around 6 a.m., Monday. Upon arrival at the home at 605 W. First, police found the body of Carl Hartzell, age 93, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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COFFEYVILLE — The Coffeyville Police Department, with assistance from the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department, on Monday, Dec. 20, conducted a warrant “round-up” of over 20 outstanding arrest warrants for narcotics violations and other charges.

Commander Mike Brown said a majority of the narcotics warrants were the results of ongoing investigations into narcotics trafficking by the Coffeyville Police Department, Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
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BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

The lastest non-fiction book that chronicles a key event of World War II is written by a Montgomery County native.

Author, aviator and Coffeyville native Robert Gandt, now living in Daytona Beach, Fla., wrote “The Twilight Warriors,” which chronicles the Allied invasion of Okinawa, the largest naval operation in history. The book was published and released by Random House last month and is available through a variety of online sources and bookstores.
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BY ANDY TAYLOR

A Coffeyville native has been chosen to lead one of the most-heralded media organizations in the United States.

Last Friday, Mark Hamrick, the Associated Press business editor for broadcast, was elected president of the National Press Club, which is based in Washington, D.C. Hamrick will assume his leadership duties on Jan. 29, which, also is the 150th anniversary of Kansas’ statehood. His inauguration as president of the National Press Club will be based on the theme “We’re Not In Kansas Anymore” and include two Montgomery County natives as emcees: Independence native and television broadcaster Bill Kurtis and Coffeyville native and film/TV director Chuck Bowman.

Hamrick graduated from Field Kindley High School in 1978, where, at the time, he was an aspiring young journalist as a staff writer for the Tornado Times newspaper. His father, Dan Hamrick, was the editor of the Coffeyville Journal during the mid-1970s.
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The Coffeyville Police Department is searching for two black males who are suspects in an armed robbery of a local convenience store Monday night.
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