Thursday’s program featured a discussion on how COVID-19 is affecting the local economy with Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Jason Smith. Downtown Manhattan, Inc. Executive Director Gina Scroggs joined us to share the downtown business perspective and how local merchants are coping with the downturn in customers and revenue. Aggieville Business Association [...]
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Employee pay Manhattan-Ogden USD 383 employees will continue to be paid during this current shutdown. During the school board meeting Wednesday, Business Services Director Lew Faust presented how each employee group will be paid. Hourly employees of less than 12 month will be paid normally for the spring break week before the closure. Classified payment [...]
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Riley County Health Department Director Julie Gibbs joined us for a daily update on the coronavirus response locally.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — As most of the U.S. raced to get ahead of the coronavirus pandemic, conservative Republican lawmakers in Kansas moved Wednesday to limit their Democratic governor’s emergency powers, including the ability to establish quarantine zones if the need arises. Conservatives are angry with Gov. Laura Kelly’s order to close all of the state’s K-12 [...]
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COUNCIL GROVE, Kan. — Two positive cases of coronavirus have been reported in nearby Morris County, the first reported cases in the Flint Hills region. Morris County Public Health Department Public Information Officer William Kassebaum confirmed late Wednesday it was notified of two positive individuals who visited several locations in Council Grove while showing no [...]
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Manhattan City Hall and city facilities will close to the public in response to COVID-19 effective Thursday, March 19. City officials made the announcement via release Thursday afternoon, noting the closures will be in place until April 6th at the earliest. All city and advisory board meetings will be held online via Zoom and broadcast [...]
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Kansas State University has suspended all hiring effective immediately. K-State will stop recruiting any new employees at this time. Also any potential employees in the recruiting process will have their recruitment suspended. To move forward with any current recruitment, or to begin new recruitment faculty must have it approved by the appropriate vice president. Click [...]
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Riley County commissioners this afternoon held a special meeting to close the county offices to the public. The offices will be closed for the next 14 calendar days effective tomorrow at 8 a.m. This also includes the health department. The only building excluded from closure is the county transfer station. County employees can still come [...]
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Universities and colleges across the United States are shutting down and moving online in response to the global coronavirus pandemic, and Kansas State University is anticipating losing tens of millions of dollars in revenue. K-State President Richard Myers said the universities “hastily” gathered figures estimate a $21 million impact as a result of ceasing in-person [...]
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With school out in the traditional sense for the duration of the academic year, it’s only fair that employees would worry about what that means for their own bottom lines. As part of her executive order to close K-12 schools Tuesday in favor of an online learning component, Gov. Laura Kelly promised all hourly and [...]
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