Cowboys and cowgirls are moseying on over to the Flint Hills Discovery Center this Friday for the 2023 Kansas Cowboy Poetry Contest Championship. According to a Monday release, a total of seven contestants have advanced to this year’s finals. Betty Burlingham, Manhattan; John Marks, Gypsum; Mary Powell, Longton; Colby Richard, Ellsworth; Kasey Rieff, Sarcoxie, MO; [...]
The Manhattan-Ogden School Board will hold its regular meeting at the Robinson Education Center this evening. Among the new business items being considered is a proposal to add girls wrestling at Anthony and Eisenhower Middle Schools for the upcoming school year. All seven schools in the Centennial Middle School League are making similar proposals for [...]
Training exercises are being conducted this week by members of Riley County Fire District No. 1. County officials say the exercises are planned during the evening Wednesday and Thursday at the former Crestview Church, at 4761 Tuttle Creek Blvd., north of Manhattan. Training will take place between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. Patrons can expect [...]
Pottawatomie County is collecting names of honorably discharged veterans living in the county as well as those who previously have maintained residency in the county. County Administrator Chad Kinsley says the goal is to add names to the current monument, at the southeast corner of the Old Courthouse building in Westmoreland, from anyone serving in the [...]
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran spoke Tuesday at a ceremony in Normandy, France, commemorating the 79th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy in World War II. The senior Senator from Kansas joined General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and others who spoke about the sacrifice so many gave on D-Day. Milley [...]
Vandals have struck again out at Anneberg Park. The Riley County Police Department says officers filed a criminal damage to property report Monday after the City of Manhattan reported damage to the soccer building complex, including a door, as well as locks and knobs on three doors to the building. Damage was estimated at just [...]
The Riley County Board of Commissioners approved a request Monday to administer two surveys to collect staff and public feedback on a proposed schedule of four, ten-hour days per workweek for all departments. Riley County Clerk Rich Vargo presented the survey request to commissioners and emphasized that the benefits of this change extend beyond an [...]
A Manhattan woman was arrested over the weekend for DUI and child endangerment. The Riley County Police Department says 26-year-old Elizabeth Bennett was pulled over in the early morning hours Saturday in the 1300 block of Wreath Ave. after the report of a car hitting a parked car. Bennett, who reportedly intoxicated, was found to [...]
A bench warrant has been issued for a Fort Riley soldier accused in a 2019 rape. Luis Emanuel Cortijo-Abreu was intially charged in July 2019 with the 2018 rape of a mentally deficient victim. In court Monday, it was discussed by attorney Brenda Jordan that she has not had contact with Abreu for an extended [...]
A Manhattan man charged with attempted murder was in Riley County District Court Monday for an arraignment on separate charges of violating the offender registration act and perjury. Jarman Morgan, 45, entered not guilty pleas to all seven charges against him, including four for failing to register and three for perjury. The offenses are alleged [...]
