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The City of Manhattan is expected to announce the start of the East Manhattan Gateway Plan process next week. The city will be hosting a couple of community open houses on Monday and Tuesday allowing for residents to share their thoughts on what should go into the plan. The first meeting will be held from [...]

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At Wednesday’s USD 383 meeting, board members and administrators congratulated Ashlyn Kuhlmann on winning the 2024 Kansas Horizon Award which is sponsored by the Kansas State Department of Education. According to the KSDE website, the goal of the award is to “recognize exemplary first-year teachers who perform and distinguishes themselves as outstanding.” Every year, KSDE [...]

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The USD 383 Manhattan-Ogden School Board will hold its first meeting in the month of February on Wednesday night. The main item of business on tonight’s agenda is a mid-year report on enrollment in USD 383. According to documents from the school district, over 6,000 students are enrolled in USD 383 schools. New business items [...]

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The Manhattan Lions Club held its annual biscuits and gravy breakfast at the College Avenue United Methodist Church Saturday. The event raised around $2,000 and saw a large turnout as the group accepted donations for four different charities. Club president Diana Chapel spoke about the different charities that proceeds would be going towards. The group [...]

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The Kansas State Innovations Partners president and CEO is stepping down to take a new position at Oregon State University. Rebecca Robinson is expected to take a job as the associate vice president for economic development and industry relations and senior advisor for strategic intiatives at Oregon State. In a press release from the university, [...]

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Two Manhattan men are in custody after police say they robbed a man near downtown Manhattan. The Riley County Police Department arrested 25-year-old Brandon Welty and 19-year-old Joseph Bauer on charges of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. The arrests occurred just after 5 p.m. Tuesday in the 400 block of Leavenworth Street. In a [...]

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The KC World Cup committee recently presented to the Kansas Senate Commerce Committee to request around $30 million in state money to provide for training facilities as players get ready to play compete in 2026 at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. State Sen. Usha Reddi, who sits on the Commerce Committee spoke about the vast opportunities [...]

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The Kansas State University Department of Agricultural Economics will be hosting the Kansas Farm and Ranch Transition conference in Manhattan on Mar. 8. The conference is designed to help farmers and ranchers plan for the transition to the next generation. K-State director of Office of Farm and Ranch Transition Ashlee Westerhold says that a 2012 [...]

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The Sunset Zoo has a new tiger at their zoo. Marketing and development officer Melissa Kirkwood spoke about the new tiger on In Focus. Jaya is a Malayan tiger and comes from the Little Rock Zoo in Arkansas after spending almost the last two years at that zoo. Jaya moved into the zoo on Jan. [...]

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Manhattan City Commissioners were presented with a slew of plans Tuesday aimed at creating more housing in Manhattan. City staff presented potential strategies toward addressing housing challenges through Rural Housing Incentive Districts, Industrial Revenue Bonds, Moderate Income Housing grants and the city’s workforce housing sales tax. The 2023 Economic Recovery and Relief Sales Tax is dedicated [...]

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