The following summary of calls for service/reports filed by the Riley County Police Department is a portion of those received by police. Some names, addresses, and case details are withheld to follow local, state, and federal law as well as in an attempt to protect community members from being victimized further. Those arrested are presumed innocent [...]
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Among the many topics discussed during Wednesday’s USD 383 Manhattan/Ogden school board meeting, Superintendent Marvin Wade called to attention the district’s outstanding gas bill procured during February’s Polar Vortex. Treasurer Lew Faust explained that through their provider, Symmetry Energy Solutions, their January bill amounted to ~$22,000, a normal rate expected for that time of year, [...]
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Unlike the CARES Act, the American Rescue Plan Act, the most recent pandemic-related stimulus bill, will bring funds directly to local governments. Here is Manhattan assistant city manager Dennis Marstall on how much money Manhattan and Riley County can expect to receive. “We don’t have the final numbers now, but roughly $14 million will come [...]
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The stilling basin rehabilitation project below Tuttle Creek dam is nearing completion. The project primarily repairs sinkholes that occurred in the area in 2015 and also previously in 1987. Crews have completed new buried back wall drains at a shallower depth and replaced the top 8 feet of the stilling basin’s side walls. U.S. Army [...]
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The Riley County Health Department is putting on two COVID-19 vaccine clinics over the next few days. RCHD official Jenny Yuen says the first will take place at the Douglass Center at 900 Yuma St. this Friday from 3 to 5 p.m.. “We are trying to vaccinate those that live around that area – those [...]
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Construction has been the name of the game around Manhattan over the past few months. Ryan Courtright, Manhattan Fire Department Assistant Chief of Risk Reduction, tells KMAN that road construction isn’t the only construction taking place around MHK. He says many new buildings are going up as well. Courtright says in the month of March [...]
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Kansas State University renews its 12 year university to military community partnership with Fort Riley with a signing ceremony. Fort Riley Maj. Gen. D.A. Sims joined K-State President Richard Myers Wednesday to extend the ongoing partnership. Myers says the partnership is too intertwined and too deep to list everything they do, but has value. “We’re [...]
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A new candidate has filed for a position on the Manhattan City Commission. The Riley County Clerk’s Office says Monica Macfarlane filed the necessary paperwork for the upcoming election. Macfarlane is employed at Kansas State University as an Assistant Graduate Program Coordinator in the Department of Grain Science and Industry. She becomes the second candidate [...]
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U.S. Senator Jerry Moran spoke Wednesday at the Manhattan Military Relations Committee’s monthly luncheon. The senior senator from Kansas highlighted defense appropriations, federal legislation tied to military and the importance of continued advocacy for Fort Riley. Moran expressed optimism for Manhattan to receive federal funding through a new grant program his office added to the [...]
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Riley County has confirmed 27 new positive COVID-19 cases and 22 additional recoveries since last Wednesday. This brings the county’s total number of active cases to 28. Ascension Via Christi is currently caring for one person under investigation in the Intensive Care Unit. The percent positive rate for the week of March 28 was 1.1 [...]
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