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By Emma Loura/Manhattan Mercury The Riley County elections division will move into its new home later this week. County clerk Rich Vargo on Monday told county commissioners that his office will close Thursday as elections staff members move to the fourth floor of the Courthouse Plaza East building at 115 North 15th St. The county [...]

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By Manhattan Mercury Staff Col. Laudino Castillo took over command of Irwin Army Community Hospital last week in a ceremony at Fort Riley. Col. Anthony Gray relinquished command to Castillo. Medical Readiness Command West commander and Brig. Gen. Yolonda Summons praised Gray’s leadership during a challenging period marked by personnel shortages, budget constraints and modernization [...]

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By Beth Day/Pott County Times For the first time in 15 years, Pottawatomie County’s valuation has dropped, commissioners learned at a Monday budget work session. Assistant County Administrator Heather Gladbach presented the commissioners with a budget that includes a 9.9 percent decrease in the mill levy, making the mill levy 26.0 for 2025. The last [...]

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Over 70 million Americans are expected to travel 50 or more miles over the 4th of July holiday. This number is expected to be quite high for Kansans, as AAA Public Affairs manager Shawn Steward explained…. That number is higher than 2023, which saw an estimated 429,000 Kansans either take to the roads, sky or [...]

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Jobless rates are up all across the region according to data that was recently released by the Kansas Department of Labor (KDOL). The unemployment rate for Riley County is up half a percentage point from April at 3%. Geary County saw a jump of 0.6% from 3.7% in April to 4.3% in May. Pottawatomie and [...]

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A  man escaped serious injury Saturday night when authorities said his car flipped while exiting Interstate 70 in Wabaunsee County. The crash was reported at 6:47 p.m. Saturday on westbound I-70 about 9 miles northwest of Alma. The Kansas Highway Patrol’s online crash log said a 2020 Acura MDX car was traveling west on I-70 [...]

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A Manhattan man died in an accident just before 10p.m. Sunday in Cloud County. The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2006 Ford van driven by Marco Lopez, 47, Kansas City, Missouri, was westbound on U.S. 24 and struck a 2015 Yamaha motorcycle driven by James Ray Dille, 63, Manhattan. Dille was pronounced dead at the [...]

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A man has died as a result of injuries suffered Saturday night in a utility terrain vehicle crash in Wabaunsee County. Ray G. Palenske, 74, of Lenexa was indetified as the victim, and the driver Brian Palenske, of Basehor, was reportedly uninjured. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol’s online crash log, a UTV was traveling [...]

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Gov. Laura Kelly officially signed legislation that will cut taxes by $1.2 billion over the next three years. The bill, which passed with massive bipartisan majorities in the Kansas legislature earlier this week, provides several tax cuts for Kansans, particularly when it comes to income taxes. The top rate for taxpayers was lowered to 5.58% [...]

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Kansas State University officials held a ribbon cutting ceremony Thursday afternoon to celebrate the completion of the Edge District’s newest office building at 960 Kimball Ave Senior vice president at the KSU Foundation Greg Lohrentz detailed the importance of the newest addition. “This building before us will provide hope for nearly 250 new employees,” he [...]

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