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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Police in St. Mays arrested a 45 year old man late Friday for reckless driving and for purposely trying to cause a wreck with other drivers. According to police, the man was observed driving westbound on Highway 24 and entering St. Marys at around 8 p.m. Officers intercepted the suspect vehicle, which was reportedly intentionally [...]
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The Riley County Fire Department was called out to the K-177 bridge over the Kansas River at around 7:30 pm Saturday for a report of a fire. Upon arriving crews found a pile of debris under the bridge ablaze and threatening the structure of the bridge. Because of the location of the fire crews had to [...]
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June sales tax numbers are in for the City of Manhattan. The city’s one-percent sales tax brought in around $1.04 million in revenue for June 2021. This is up nearly $272,000 from June 2020, when the city brought in about $767,000. The jump comes out to an approximately 35.5 percent increase from one year ago. [...]
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National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility officials have continued hiring efforts despite the presence of a pandemic over the past year or so. NBAF deputy director Sarah Ziegler spoke to KMAN Friday about some of their more recent employment numbers. NBAF communications director Katie Pawlosky says the staff is a good mix of federal-government veterans and people who [...]
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