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MANHATTAN — Hundreds of people gathered Saturday for the grand opening event at Manhattan’s new Midwest Dream Car Collection. Executive Director Lynn Gentine spoke with KMAN about what makes the collection so special. Gentine says the cars act like a photo album, triggering memories for those who come out and nostalgia for either a car [...]

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Funeral arrangements are set for the former Director of the Flint Hills Breadbasket in Manhattan. Shirley Bramhall will be laid to rest Thursday in Vermillion, Kan. Services will take place at 1:30 p.m. at the Vermillion School with pastor Tom Walters officiating. Interment will follow in the Vermillion Cemetery. The family will receive friends from [...]

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Riley County commissioners gave their approval for 13 department requests to be funded by the Capital Improvement Fund. The commission continued their 2019 first quarter CIP session from last week. The original estimate for all requests was $4.9 million out of the $5.3 million budget authority, but was reduced to $3.7 million.  The total cost [...]

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Manhattan-Ogden USD 383 announced its two teachers of the year for 2019-2020 in a Friday release. Woodrow Wilson Elementary School teacher Kelly Carmody and Manhattan High School teacher Noah Busch are the recipients and will be the USD 383 representatives in the Kansas Teacher of the Year program as well. Carmody teaches 6th grade and [...]

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A Manhattan-based organization was honored in Wichita Thursday for its service to victims of sex trafficking. Attorney General Derek Schmidt presented the Outstanding Victim Service Organization Award to the Homestead Ministry at the 22nd Crime Victims’ Rights Conference in Wichita. The conference was hosted by Schmidt and Gov. Laura Kelly and focused on raising awareness [...]

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Motorists around Riley County are advised to prepare for delays in the coming weeks as Public Works crews apply dust control treatment to roads. They’ll be using liquid treatments beginning on Monday, April 15. They’ll start with Secrest and Messenger Roads. On Wednesday, April 17, they’ll treat Mill Creek and Swede Creek Roads. On Monday, [...]

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MANHATTAN — Angie Thomas, author of “The Hate U Give” hosted a lecture Thursday evening at McCain Auditorium. Thomas’ talk centered around making politics personal. It was co-sponsored by the Kansas State Book Network, or KSBN, the Diversity Programming Committee and the English department’s student honorary society, Sigma Tau Delta, among others. K-State architecture student [...]

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MANHATTAN — The LGBTQ community and allies are being celebrated this weekend with the 10th annual Little Apple Pride Festival. A parade will kick things off at noon starting at Manhattan Town Center, continuing down Poyntz Avenue to City Park. Committee member Jonathan Mertz says people will arrive to the park to a plethora of [...]

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Officers filed a report for burglary and criminal damage to property in the 1900 block of Indiana Ln in Manhattan on April 11, 2019, at approximately 3:30 PM. Officers listed James Murphy, 74 of Manhattan as the victim when it was reported an unknown suspect damaged a door and took jewelry and cash. The estimated [...]

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OGDEN — A man accused of firing shots near Ogden Elementary was in court Wednesday afternoon where he pleaded not guilty to two charges against him. The Manhattan Mercury is reporting 40-year-old Justin Bauer entered not guilty pleas to a charge of possession of a firearm on or around school grounds and discharge of a [...]

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