Word has been received that members of the Kansas Army National Guard’s 226th Engineering Company arrived in Afghanistan earlier this week as part of a one-year stint with Operation Enduring Freedom. The 226th company includes detachments from Cherryvale and Pittsburg and its company headquarters in Augusta. The company had spent the past month at Fort McCoy, Wis., undergoing training. These 226th company members were photographed during a a prayer held at a departure ceremony in Salina, Kan., on Dec. 30. (Photo courtesy Kansas Adjutant General’s Office)

The Kansas Adjutant General’s Department on Friday released the names of the communities where 18 of its 56 National Guard armories will close in early 2010 due to state budget cuts.

Cherryvale is among the 18 towns that will lose their armory. Other Kansas communities to see the closure of their armories are Atchison, Burlington, Chanute, Council Grove, Fort Scott, Garden City, Garnett, Goodland, Horton, Kingman, Larned, Phillipsburg, Russell, Sabetha, *Salina East, Troy and Winfield. (*Salina East building will remain open for Guard use, but armory operations will be transferred).
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