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A community-wide housing survey is circulating in Manhattan this month, seeking feedback on housing experiences, conditions and issues. City officials say it’s the next phase of a Housing Market Analysis project, following the establishment of a housing steering committee last August, in addition to multiple rounds of stakeholder interviews and preliminary data collection. The 10-minute [...]

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Applications are now being accepted for the Manhattan Fire Department’s student firefighter program. The program is open to college students 18 and older attending K-State, MATC or Manhattan Christian College. Deputy Fire Chief Ryan Almes likens the program to a paid internship. “The statistics on the number of people we have that go through the [...]

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Following the recent winter storm in Kansas, the American Red Cross says blood drive cancellations as a result of the weather cost the organization at least a day’s worth of blood. They say that only compounds the existing blood shortage in the nation, which has led the Red Cross to declare its first-ever national blood [...]

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One person was injured Tuesday in a three-vehicle crash near Fort Riley Blvd. and South Manhattan Ave. According to the Riley County Police Department, an SUV driven by 62-year-old Tracy Trout collided with van and pickup truck shortly before 2:30 p.m. Trout was transported by EMS to Ascension Via Christi for treatment of chest pain [...]

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A 42-year-old Wabaunsee County man jailed in Riley County had some new charges brought against him this week. Scott Habluetzel, of Paxico, was charged by RCPD Tuesday with single counts of aggravated battery and domestic battery. The charges stem from a warrant. An online criminal complaint alleges he battered a woman December 10 at a [...]

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Sunflower CASA in Manhattan continues to help children in several ways. Carson Kober, executive director tells KMAN that this past year was successful for Sunflower CASA. She says they helped more children in 2021 than in any year ever before. Part of that is due to the extended services of Sunflower CASA, that actually extend [...]

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64th district representative Suzi Carlson was arrested on DUI charges late Monday, according to police records. Shawnee County’s daily booking report shows the Republican lawmaker was booked into the Shawnee County Detention Center at 11 p.m. January 31, posting 2 thousand dollars bond about 3 hours later. Police allege Carlson recorded a blood alcohol level [...]

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Riley County may have passed the peak for the omicron variant. During Monday’s county commission meeting, Health Department Director Julie Gibbs said the county has been seeing decreasing case numbers each of the past couple weeks. In early January, the county saw its highest weekly increase with over 1,200 cases in a single report. This [...]

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The Kansas Agriculture Secretary was in Manhattan this week for the annual Riley County Livestock Association annual meeting. Mike Beam was the guest speaker at Monday’s meeting at Pottorf Hall and spoke about the value of agricultural exports, which surpassed $4 billion in 2020, the highest total in Kansas since 2014. “The first half of that (year) [...]

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A new superintendent has been named at USD 320 Wamego. At a special meeting Monday, via Zoom, the Wamego School Board announced the hiring of Rob McKim, who currently serves as Principal at Lansing High School. He was selected from a pool of four finalists that interviewed last week with the board. McKim is a [...]

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