Brandon Peoples

With students leaving Manhattan for the summer, city crews will be hard at work on construction projects beginning this week. As previously reported, the full intersection closure at Denison and Kimball goes into effect Monday as only local traffic to NBAF and Meadowlark Hills will be able to stay on Kimball from North Manhattan Ave. City officials [...]

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Kansas City Chiefs ambassadors returned to Manhattan this week as the latest member of the Chiefs family toured local resident and Manhattan-Ogden school board member Curt Herrman’s “Chiefseum” — the world’s largest collection of Chiefs memorabilia, according to Guinness. The collection now boasts over 1,600 unique items. Jerry Cornelison is a former offensive tackle, who [...]

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The Manhattan City Commission will operate as a foursome, at least for now. Long-time city commissioner and former mayor Wynn Butler resigned Thursday after being cited for a DUI crash into a Manhattan liquor store Wednesday evening. RCPD noted in its arrest report his blood alcohol content exceeded the legal limit. No injuries were reported. [...]

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Manhattan Mayor Wynn Butler was arrested Wednesday night on suspicion of DUI after crashing his vehicle into a storefront. The incident happened around 8 p.m. at the Candlewood Liquor Store, in the Candlewood Shopping Center. Butler confirmed overnight to KMAN that his brakes failed, but also admitted to having had four beers earlier in the [...]

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The National Weather Service has now confirmed that an EF-0 tornado impacted southern Riley County during Monday night’s severe weather event. Meteorologists were out surveying damage Tuesday in the Hunter’s Island area, south of Fort Riley Blvd. and noted the tornado was on the ground from about 7:39 p.m. to 7:44 p.m. Monday, with an [...]

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The next phase of construction along Kimball and Denison is expected to get underway soon . Interim Manhattan City Manager Jason Hilgers says the intersection, which is currently only accessible from East Kimball Ave. and south Denison Ave., will soon be closing to all traffic. The intersection reconstruction won’t be completed by that point, but [...]

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Severe storms pushed through the area Monday night, though mostly spared the region of any significant damage. Tornado warnings were issued from Abilene to Manhattan and rur al areas of Clay and Pottawatomie counties, though they never really materialized. National Weather Service meteorologist Adam Jones says there were still some impressive storm reports that came [...]

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8 a.m. Monday update Severe weather appears to be likely for Monday with showers and thunderstorms expected to pop up this afternoon and evening. The Storm Prediction Center has placed the Manhattan area in an enhanced (level 3) risk for storm development, noting the potential for large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes. National Weather Service [...]

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U.S. Senators Jerry Moran and Roger Marshall as well as Congressman Tracey Mann visited Westmoreland on Friday, touring the devastated neighborhoods ravaged by the April 30 tornado. The three Congressional members were bussed around the community to see firsthand the damage. Tuesday’s storm destroyed 22 homes and damaged 13 others. Sen. Moran says part of [...]

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A new MRI scanner suite was officially unveiled to the public Friday at Wamego Health Center. The permanent facility replaces a mobile MRI unit that came to the hospital twice a week. Hospital Administrator Brian Howells says construction on the roughly $3 million project took less than a year and came in under budget. “It’s been [...]

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