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Residents of Washington County are being mandated 14-day quarantine and isolation if they recently traveled to Riley County. The Washington County Health Department announced this week the new measure which applies to any Washington County resident who traveled into Riley County on or after April 7. The measure is in place to limit the spread [...]

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Kansas House Representative Ron Highland says the state has done a good job so far responding to guidelines from health officials related to coronavirus. The 51st District Republican Representative from Wamego was critical of Gov. Laura Kelly’s executive order which mandated churches to comply with the 10-person gathering minimum ahead of Easter – traditionally the [...]

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Riley County EMS will be holding an audit for their employees who hold outside jobs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision was made to protect both EMS employees and the public, and affects both part time and full time employees.  EMS positions are high risk during the pandemic since they are responding to [...]

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Keep Teaching With in-person classes being cancelled for the rest of the school year, K-State has taken steps to make the transition to remote classes easier for higher-education professional. The Keep Teaching program allows university staff to share information and tools for implementing a successful online-teaching experience. While K-State has a Keep Teaching program for [...]

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Temporary e-cards are being remotely issued to Manhattan residents who don’t currently have access to a Manhattan Public Library card. Those temporary e-cards will allow users to access thousands of downloadable books, hundreds of quality streaming movies and a wide array of databases. This is being done until further notice while the library remains closed [...]

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As many K-12 students are going through their second week of remote classes, school administrators are getting help from local organizations in making sure students have internet access. USD 320 Wamego Superintendent Tim Winter says Wamego Telecommunications Company has helped in these efforts. Winter says another way they tackled this problem was by reaching out to the local [...]

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April is sexual assault awareness month. During the current health pandemic, it is important, now more than ever for victims to report sexual crimes. Community resources are still available 24 hours a day. (See below). Ascension Via Christi sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Stephanie Killbourn recently joined KMAN’s In Focus with some information on how many [...]

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Noon Thursday update The amount of positive cases of COVID-19 in Riley County has grown to 20 as health officials continue to urge the public to abide by the stay-at-home order. The latest patient is a 63-year-old man. No further details about his case have been released. Pottawatomie County and Geary County both remained at [...]

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Manhattan’s Downtown Farmer’s Market will start on the date originally planned after narrowly securing a permit Tuesday evening. The market will open on April 18 following a 3 to 2 vote via ZOOM by the Manhattan City Commission. Mayor Usha Reddi proposed moving the start date to May or June over concerns about the spread [...]

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