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Results from regional high school wrestling tournaments on Saturday include . . .

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CANEY — The Can-Kan Dreambuilders are in the midst of their annual membership drive which is held during February. To help promote membership month, Caney’s city officials will be honored guests at a special come-and-go Patron Appreciation Day open house this Sunday, Feb. 19, at the Caney City Library from 1 to 3 p.m. The public is cordially invited to attend the event, and refreshments will also be served. Door prizes will be given away and a drawing will also be held for the book “The Mullendore Murder Mystery” by Jonathan Kwitny.

“Support from city leaders and Caney residents is vital to realizing the goal of building a new city library in Caney,” said Sharon Wiggins, Can-Kan Dreambuilders secretary.

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BY ANDY TAYLOR

chronicle@taylornews.org

Rumble strips will soon be installed on U.S. 160 highway near the intersection of U.S. 169 highway south of Cherryvale in hopes of heightening driver attention, a state transportation official confirmed Monday.

Wayne Gudmonson, area district engineer for the Kansas Department of Transportation, said the rumble strips will soon be cut into the road surface on U.S. 160 west of the U.S. 169 intersection due to public concerns following a fatality wreck on Jan. 27. That wreck claimed the life of a Coffeyville man and injured three others.

The intersection has been the site of 53 collisions since 2000, according to Kansas Department of Transportation records.

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BY ANDY TAYLOR

chronicle@taylornews.org

All Montgomery County property owners could see the county’s share of property taxes increase by at least 25 percent if a proposal in the Kansas Legislature becomes law.

Residents in Coffeyville could see their total ad valorem tax rates increase by more than 70 percent.

County commissioners revealed Monday the tax impact of two identical bills — Senate Bill 317 and House Bill 2501— that concerns the tax classification of manufacturing equipment and machinery. The two bills are proposed by the Kansas Chamber of Commerce and other trade associations and are reportedly written by an attorney for Coffeyville Resources Nitrogen Fertilizers.

The two bills are the result of a January decision by the Kansas Court of Tax Appeals that upheld Montgomery County’s valuation and classification of the nitrogen fertilizer company’s tax assessment for 2008. The company protested its tax assessment to the Montgomery County Appraiser and later to the tax appeals court.

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HAVANA — An Independence man flown to a Tulsa medical center after sustaining critical injuries in a collision with a semi-tractor trailer south of Havana late Thursday night, Feb. 16.

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CHERRYVALE — Criminal charges are possible against a rural Cherryvale couple who had several dozen animals removed from their property for neglect and cruelty.

Labette County Sheriff Robert Sims said his department and the Kansas Animal Health Department removed 26 dogs and two cats from the home of John and Regina Fine, 21051 Anderson Road, in rural Cherryvale on Feb. 3.  The sheriff’s department and animal health department received complaints about possible animal cruelty on the Fine property, which forced law enforcement to execute search warrants on the property on Feb. 3.

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COFFEYVILLE — Arson is the cause of a fire that destroyed a downtown Coffeyville business on Jan. 28, police chief Joe Humble confirmed today.

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Caney city administrator Don Whitman announced Wednesday that he has accepted a job as city administrator in Flandreau, South Dakota. Whitman expects to remain in Caney through the end of March. More details later.