WAMEGO — For the better part of the new year, area schools have dealt with closings and delays due to winter weather. So far this semester, USD 320 Wamego has plowed through close to a school week’s worth of snow days already. It’s caused a financial burden on some teachers and staff, since they aren’t paid for [...]
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Officers filed a report for indecent liberties with a child and unlawful transmission of visual depiction of a child in Manhattan on February 13, 2019, at approximately 8:40 AM. Officers listed a 14-year-old female as the victim and a 14-year-old male as the suspect. Due to the nature of the crime reported, no further information will be [...]
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The Riley Cemetery has sustained thousands of dollars in damage after what’s being described as an act of vandalism. An unknown vehicle drove through the cemetery sometime between the evening of Saturday, February 4th and Monday morning, February 6th, tearing ruts in a 25 by 150 feet long portion of the lawn. A photo was [...]
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Officers filed a report for theft in the 500 block of Poyntz in Manhattan on February 12, 2019, at approximately 4:55 PM. Officers listed Chad Robertson, 45 of St. George as the victim when it was reported an unknown suspect took the victims 1996 Dodge Ram 1500. The estimated total loss associated with this case is [...]
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Members of the Manhattan business community talked about the future of economic development in the city at Tuesday’s Manhattan City Commission work session. The discussion followed a presentation on the annual economic development report. The city performs an accountability review of all organizations which receive Manhattan Economic Development Opportunity funds — including recipients of funds [...]
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MANHATTAN — With the upcoming retirement of its current president later this month and a new president taking the helm in March, the Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce has announced that Karen Hibbard will lead the chamber on an interim basis. Hibbard, who is Executive Director for the Manhattan Convention and Visitors Bureau received the [...]
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Manhattan Deputy City Manager Jason Hilgers expects the city won’t see any more return on $317,000 of investments it made in the Tallgrass Brewing Company. He presented the annual economic development report at the city commission work session Tuesday. Tallgrass suspended operations last August after negotiations with new investors languished. Recapitalization efforts seem to have failed for the time being [...]
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MANHATTAN — Time is running out to get your sweetheart a gift for Valentine’s Day. The Little Apple Barbershop Chorus in Manhattan is once again providing a unique gift idea, through the power of music, as heard on the KMAN Morning Show Tuesday. That is Charades, one of four Little Apple Chorus barbershop quartets this [...]
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Riley County was proclaimed a POW MIA (prisoner of war, missing in action) county from the Jefferson Barracks Museum out of St Louis during the Riley County commission meeting on Monday. VFW Post 1786 Commander Dan Watkins, along with fellow VFW members, presented the POW MIA county sign to commissioners. He said this day was [...]
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MARSHALL COUNTY — A Frankfort woman was hospitalized after her vehicle was struck by a semi in rural Marshall County Monday. The Kansas Highway Patrol says shortly before 12:30 p.m., 18-year-old Elizabeth Taylor was attempting a northbound turn from Parallel Road onto Kansas Highway 99. The location is about five miles north of Blaine. As [...]
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