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Manhattan continues to work on the details of a possible 2020 ballot question to extend the existing economic development sales tax another 10 years and expand it to be city-wide. City Commissioners and administration for the last few budget cycles have been eyeing renewing or replacing the existing half cent tax, which expires in 2022. [...]

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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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School will start two weeks later than initially planned for Wamego students. The school board unanimously approved a calendar change Tuesday that will see sixth and ninth grade students start on Sept. 2 with all others except kindergarten and early learning starting Sept. 3. Early learning and kindergarten students will report Sept. 8. Superintendent Tim [...]

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Ascension Via Christi continued to monitor three COVID positive patients Tuesday, but the Riley County Health Department says there are no patients currently requiring a ventilator. Two additional positive cases and two more recoveries were announced, keeping with the steady trend. As of Monday, 110 were being monitored as active cases and 314 were listed [...]

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Earlier this year, a Catholic church community in southeastern Pottawatomie County broke ground on a new $30 million building for worship. The Society of St. Piux X in St. Marys is constructing the new building it calls the Immaculata, which will hold more than 1,500 people and will be 12 stories tall, overlooking the small [...]

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Mail-in ballot numbers The Pottawatomie County Clerks Office has seen high rates of voter participation via mail-in ballots so far this year. “We are getting hundreds of them back a day,” Nancy McCarter, Pottawatomie County clerk, said. “One day we got 400 and that was pretty exciting. You’ll never get 100 percent of them back, [...]

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Manhattan Regional Airport is among many airports nationwide struggling through the impacts of COVID-19. American Airlines, which services daily flights from MHK announced it will suspend daily flights to Chicago O’Hare effective Friday. Service is tentatively set to resume September 9. This will take MHK down to 12 weekly departures, all to Dallas Fort Worth. [...]

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Riley County is beginning to see a flattening of the curve in terms of the COVID-19 cases reported by the health department. As of Monday, Riley County had recorded 426 positive coronavirus cases. That includes 110 active cases, 312 patients who’ve made recoveries and four deaths, the latest of which was reported Friday by the [...]

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Riley County commissioners approved the 2021 budget during their meeting Monday. The commission held a public hearing for the budget, however no one from the public made any comments.  Budget and Finance Officer Tami Robison says the proposed 2021 mil levy is 42.285, which  is a 0.776 mill decrease from last year.  The regular county [...]

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