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MANHATTAN — With the holidays just around the corner, T. Russell Reitz Animal Shelter Director Deb Watkins says gifting a pet can be a wonderful thing at Christmas time if it’s well thought through. Watkins says that you have to consider all the factors when looking for a pet during the holidays, sometimes it’s better to wait. [...]

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WAMEGO — The Wizard of Oz was recently named the most influential movie of all time according to an article by the Telegraph news. It beat out Star Wars, Psycho, and 47,000 other films. The article cited work from researchers at the University of Turin who developed a computer program that measures the success of a [...]

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Pottawatomie County Public Works Director Peter Clark gave an update to the county commission on Monday with two big topics addressed during the meeting. One of those was a recent bridge failure. The bridge will be closed for the next few months while they design and rebuild. The second topic discussed was over a local [...]

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MANHATTAN — During this week’s Governor’s Conference on the Future of Kansas Water, Assistant Scientist at K-State Christopher Redmond gave a presentation on drought monitoring with the university’s Mesonet soil moisture monitoring system. Mesonet consists of 16 weather stations across the state that create a network. Redmond said the data they record is provided through [...]

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Christmas may be seven weeks away but they’re already getting into the holiday spirit at Fort Riley. That was volunteer Juan R Pena talking about the 34th annual Operation Santa Claus which is now officially underway following Monday’s opening ceremony and ribbon cutting. Volunteers have begun taking donations of gifts or money to help make [...]

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Riley County Police Department reported via twitter on Monday that they responded to 20 vehicle accidents involving deer in October. In addition, so far in November there have already been 10 incidents involving deer. As a result, the RCPD has come out with some friendly reminders to anyone who may become involved in a vehicle-deer [...]

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Pottawatomie Health Director Lisa Kenworthy reported to the Pottawatomie County Commission Monday that they are applying for a grant through the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The grant is for an opioid overdose crises response cooperative agreement and is a one time grant that runs from December to August 31st. Kenworthy says although Pottawatomie [...]

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Kansas State Police Department will be offering training on how to respond to active violence and critical incidents to both students and faculty at K-State near the end of the month. The training will be focused on an active shooter response training program called ALiCE — which stands for alert, lock-down, inform, counter, evacuate. Past [...]

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K-State’s first home football game is Saturday at 6:10 p.m. and there are some construction projects on access roads that may cause traffic delays, according to the City of Manhattan. US-24 at McCall Road and the east leg of McCall Road are reduced to one lane. K-13 (over Tuttle Creek Dam) is closed at the [...]

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The Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the Junction City/Geary County Drug Operations Group in a joint investigation arrested three local individuals for Conspiracy to Commit Capitol Murder and Violation of a No Contact Order, according to a news release from authorities. Those arrested were 34-year-old Amanda Edison of Grandview Plaza, 28-year-old Samuel Ibarra-Chu, also of [...]

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