Brandon Peoples

The city of Manhattan is considering a roundabout at Anderson Avenue and Bellehaven Road, near K-State’s Unger Complex. City staff members presented to the commission on Tuesday a proposal to include a roundabout or signalized intersection as part of the city’s upcoming reconstruction of Anderson Avenue over the next two years. Assistant city manager Wyatt [...]

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Parking will be a challenge in Aggieville this summer because of construction, so business owners want city officials to nix parking fees. The Manhattan city government plans to close Moro Street from North Manhattan Avenue to 12th Street as well as from 11th to 12th Street for street improvements. City commissioners on Tuesday considered a [...]

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Officials have revised the total acres burned in a Monday evening wildfire in far northeast Riley County. According to a Tuesday news release from the county, the Harmony Road fire scorched an estimated 650 acres, down from initial estimates of 1,000 acres. No injuries were reported to people or livestock and no structures were threatened. [...]

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Pottawatomie County officials are set to honor more veterans at a ceremony next week. “We are ready to install another plaque on the veterans memorial that has 50 names of citizens that reside or have resided in the county,” said Becky Ryan, Pottawatomie County Public Information Officer. The ceremony is scheduled for 11 am Monday [...]

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Firefighters are responding to a brush fire in extreme northeastern Riley County. According to Riley County officials, firefighters were dispatched around 3:30 pm to a prescribed burn that got out of control. As of 6:45 pm a large area was still burning in a mostly rural area of northeast Riley County, near the borders of [...]

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One person was injured Friday in work zone crash on I-70 in Geary County. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol crash, a Toyota Highlander was traveling eastbound around 9:15 pm near mile post 301, when the driver swerved to avoid an animal in the road. That caused a trailing semi truck to strike the Highlander [...]

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City officials on Tuesday will receive an update on Anderson Avenue reconstruction and a proposed intersection improvement project near K-State’s Unger Complex. The Manhattan City Commission meets for its bi-monthly work session at 6 pm on Tuesday at City Hall. The Anderson project will get underway in June and includes new sidewalks, water, sewer and [...]

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Commissioners on Tuesday approved the purchase of cloud service software and design implementation services with Oracle Permitting and Licensing (OPAL). “The idea here is that we’re trying to create a customer portal where all of that is in one place,” said Assistant City Manager Jared Wasinger. “So the members of the development community or an [...]

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Geary County officials on Monday unanimously approved a request from the Convention and Visitors Bureau to fund repairs at the Milford Nature Center’s butterfly house. The attraction, which draws visitors from across the region, sustained significant roof damage from a recent snowstorm. Assistant CVB director Rick Dykstra informed the Geary County Commission that the nature [...]

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Heavy rain fell overnight in portions of northern Riley County, leading to some Wednesday morning road closures, according to officials with Riley County Emergency Management. A bridge on Kansas Avenue, west of the City of Riley, remains closed until further notice after sustaining some asphalt damage from overnight storms. Officials said Public Works is assessing [...]

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