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Nearly two dozen Manhattan High School musicians have been selected for the 2024 Kansas Music Educators Association All-State Honor Ensembles. All-State concerts are held at the Century II Convention Center in Wichita Feb 22 through Feb. 24 as part of the annual KMEA In-Service Workshop. According to the KMEA website, each year students in Kansas [...]

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1:35 pm Tuesday update Riley County officials say the portion of Wildcat Creek Road that closed Tuesday morning, due to a turned over semi truck has reopened to traffic. Original story 11:25 a.m. Tuesday Wildcat Creek Road is currently closed, due to a semi that turned over sometime before 11 am Tuesday on an icy [...]

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City officials are focused on upgrading their online technology. The city’s enterprise resource planning system, or ERP, serves as the financial operating system for the city, and Assistant Manhattan City Manager Jared Wasinger says it has room for improvement. Improvements will include easier access to building permits, utility billing, and online business with the city. [...]

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The City of Manhattan is ramping up to do major construction on the intersection of Kimball and Denison. Currently the city is doing lots of utility work on water lines in order to avoid a decreased capacity of water services, especially at K-State. Assistant Manhattan City Manager Jared Wasinger spoke on the project’s current timeline [...]

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WTC commitment approved Riley County commissioners moved Monday to commit $5,000 toward a grant application to expand public WiFi hot spots to under-served areas of the county. The action follows a request from WTC last week seeking support for a 10% match toward an ADOPT grant from the Kansas Office of Broadband Development. The program [...]

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Riley County USD 378 has placed its superintendent on administrative leave following action earlier this month. The school board on voted 4-3 on Jan. 8 to place Cliff Williams on administrative leave with pay, for currently unspecified reasons. Erin Flair has been named interim superintendent. Flair declined comment on the matter, in a phone call [...]

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The Manhattan City Commision will hold a work session Tuesday to dicuss economic development and housing incentives. The community development staff will also lead a dicussion on strategies and funding opportunities for new local work force housing. Assistant City Manager Jared Wasinger… The city had previously conducted a housing market analysis that concluded there was [...]

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One person was transported Monday morning following a two-vehicle crash near 3rd Street and Fort Riley Blvd. The Riley County Police Department says the crash happened just after 11 a.m. Names of the parties involved weren’t immediately available, but the injuries were not believed to be life threatening. The other driver was not injured, but [...]

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Riley County officials say a local resident lost their pet and their home to a weekend fire near Hunter’s Island, south of Manhattan. Crews from Riley County Fire District No. 1 were dispatched Saturday evening for reports of smoke and flames and found a mobile home fully engulfed in flames near several other outbuildings and [...]

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A March hearing is scheduled for a California man accused of firing multiple rounds of ammunition into a car parked in Aggieville. The Manhattan Mercury reports that 31-year-old Travell Hairston made his first court appearance Friday, via Zoom. Hairston is charged in Riley County District Court with attempted first-degree murder, stemming from a February 2020 [...]

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