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Riley County health officials have confirmed that a 56-year-old unvaccinated male died June 30 after testing positive for COVID-19 earlier in the month. The health department says it’s the 44th COVID-related death in the county. The individual tested positive on June 6. As of Wednesday, 20 new positive Coronavirus cases were identified along with 18 [...]

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Kansas State University says the number of students, faculty and staff who have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose has reached 72 percent. The report from Lafene Health Center officials exceeds the 70 percent goal of the nationwide COVID-19 Vaccine Challenge, a joint initiative from the White House and the U.S. Department of Education [...]

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The Manhattan City Commission Tuesday approved the issuance of industrial revenue bonds for the construction of a “home plus” facility planned for property near Colbert Hills. Foundation Park Homeplus, LLC, had requested up to eight million dollars in their IRB application for construction of what is expected to be a campus of three buildings at [...]

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Another look into the revamp of the Manhattan City Code that’s underway was given the City Commission Tuesday night, including a view of how changes to the code have resulted in mismatching development in some areas. Assistant Director of Community Development Chad Bunger highlighted a home that had been built single-family in 1925 and turned [...]

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A Pottawatomie County road will be temporarily closed later this month. Beginning July 19th, Military Trail Road near the southern border of Pott. Co., which runs parallel to HWY 24, will be closed to through traffic from Legion Lane to Swamp Angel Road for a bridge repair. Pott. Co. officials say there will not be [...]

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While in-person conventions are slow to return to Manhattan, the number of people staying in hotels continues to rise. Manhattan Convention and Visitors Bureau Executive Director Karen Hibbard says early indications are that June hotel stays ticked up slightly. Official June numbers won’t be released until later this month. Hibbard says May numbers are also [...]

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The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s office has responded to two reports of theft over the past two weeks. On June 22, a reported theft took place in the 3500 block of Dempsey Road in rural Manhattan. Sometime between 5pm the 22nd and early morning hours of June 23rd, a Honda generator was removed from a pickup [...]

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A number of Riley County asphalt overlay projects are beginning this week and will cause some traffic delays. The projects are impacting four primary locations, including Barnes Road from the Pottawatomie County line west to Tuttle Creek Blvd, Casement Road from Marlatt Avenue north to Barnes, Deep Creek Road from US 177 east to Pillsbury [...]

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One week remains until the deadline to register for the August 3 primary. July 13 is the deadline to do that. Voting by mail and advance voting begin on July 14, wrapping up at noon on Monday, Aug. 2. Advance voting at the Riley County Office Building will be offered weekdays from 8 to 5 [...]

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Arrangements are pending for 22-year-old Jace Ward, of Wamego, who died over the weekend following a two year cancer battle. Family members say visitation will be held Thursday from 6 to 8:30 p.m. with a funeral at 2 p.m. Friday. Both will take place at Trinity Baptist Church in Wamego. A private graveside burial will [...]

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