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Power outages were reported early Thursday morning after storms blew through the area overnight. Pottawatomie County authorities say Onaga Road is closed between Highway 24 and Oregon Trail Road this morning due to several downed power lines. That’s led to outages for hundreds of Bluestem Electric Cooperative customers in rural parts of the county. Bluestem [...]

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The Riley County Historical Society is starting a new public training initiative to assist in the preservation of historic gravestones. With 29 Kansas cemeteries that are currently on the national or state historic register, none of which are in Riley County, the historical museum identified a need for the conservation of headstones to not only [...]

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The Manhattan City Commission on Tuesday revised a recent decision to provide incentives for low-income housing projects, seeking state tax credits. Commissioners debated three options, ultimately selecting a resolution that involves covering the project’s building permit and water/sewer connection fees without specifying the exact funding source. Commissioners had previously opted to utilize workforce housing funds [...]

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For more than two decades, the City of Manhattan has had steady leadership coming from City Hall. In our third part of our KMAN News series looking back at the city manager’s four decade career, we hear from the city’s long time fire chief and the director of Downtown Manhattan on how Ron Fehr’s led [...]

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At Tuesday’s Manhattan City Commission, Manhattan mayor Wynn Butler proclaimed this Thursday Apr. 18 to be “Ron Fehr Day” in Manhattan to honor City Manager Ron Behr’s commitment to public service in the city and Fehr’s retirement after 24 years as the city manager. “This honor is in recognition of [Ron’s] many achievements,” said Butler. [...]

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Riley County USD 378 has named Dr. Erin Flair to be its superintendent for the 2024-25 school year. The board voted unanimously at a special meeting Monday at Riley County High School to give Flair the job permanently. Flair was previously offered a supplemental contract in March to serve out the remainder of the current [...]

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The Riley County Law Board approved a resolution Monday to conditionally authorize the board chair to sign an agreement for new license plate reader technology, which the Riley County Police Department will utilize to help with crime reduction. The board pulled the agreement from its consent agenda Monday after the board’s attorney Mike Gillespie learned [...]

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Three people were hospitalized Monday night in a wreck on K-18 near the airport. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, the crash occurred when a Ford Fusion rear-ended a Lexus in the eastbound lanes, shortly before 9 p.m. The crash led to traffic being diverted in the area for a short time. Among those injured [...]

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In our continuing news series looking back at the career of long-time Manhattan City Manager Ron Fehr, we hear from some of the city commissioners and others who worked alongside him. Bruce Snead came on the commission in 1995, serving until 2011 and recalls his first meeting with Fehr. A few years later, in 2000, [...]

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Members of the Riley County Law Board on Monday received the first proposed RCPD budget for 2025, targeting a roughly 6.6% increase in year over year spending. This year’s ask is around $2 million more than the current budget, with department administration pointing to inflationary challenges and rising insurance costs. The total overall budget is [...]

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