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The USD 383 school board has approved on first reading new boundaries for its elementary and middle schools for the upcoming school year. The board voted 6-1 to accept the redistricting committee’s option 4, which allows students living along Scenic and Ledgestone Drives as well as Stone Pointe to stay in Manhattan instead of being [...]

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Ascension Via Christi in Manhattan has announced updated visitor guidelines. Beginning Thursday, the hospital will allow patients who are admitted to have one designated visitor. As a result, visiting hours will be from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily, with an exception for labor and delivery and pediatric patients. The hospital said in a news [...]

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New outdoor dining platforms will soon be constructed next to AJ’s Pizza and Pool House Kitchen and Bar in downtown Manhattan. The move, which was unanimously approved by the city commission, will bring the number of outdoor dining platforms in Manhattan to nine. Mayor Wynn Butler says he supports the decision because of how the [...]

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A name change for a Manhattan street will honor a late civil rights leader. The Manhattan City Commission Tuesday officially approved renaming 17th St. to Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. during its meeting Tuesday, While the decision was made unanimously, it has faced some opposition. Daniel Bosch, a 17th St. resident, says the change could [...]

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The weekly percent positive rate of new coronavirus transmissions the final week of January was the lowest in Riley County since mid-October. Riley County health officials confirmed Wednesday a 5.2 percent positive rate for the week ending Jan. 30 with 148 positive tests out of 2,868 total tests. It’s the lowest percent positive rate since [...]

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The following summary of calls for service/reports filed by the Riley County Police Department is a portion of those received by police.  Some names, addresses, and case details are withheld to follow local, state, and federal law as well as in an attempt to protect community members from being victimized further.  Those arrested are presumed innocent [...]

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Riley County is making a push to expand its free COVID-19 testing capabilities throughout February. “We are in some different parts of Manhattan this week and then we’ll be headed up to Randolph, over to Ogden, so we’re trying to reach everybody that might not be able to get in to Manhattan to get that [...]

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It’s no secret that housing continues to boom in Pottawatomie County. New home builds in 2020 were relatively on pace with previous years, according to Planning and Zoning Administrator Stephan Metzger, with an uptick particularly in non-subdivision home construction. In 2020, 46 houses were built outside of subdivisions in the county, the highest total since [...]

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A Clay Center man has been jailed in connection to a number of burglaries and thefts in Pottawatomie County recently. According to Sheriff Shane Jager, 28-year-old Phillip Rose was arrested in connection to a Jan. 26 burglary and theft from the Westmoreland Co-Op, as well as the Pottawatomie County landfill. Detectives gathered evidence and issued [...]

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A Manhattan man was arrested Monday night on a Geary County warrant for residential burglary. The Geary County Sheriff’s Office lists six total charges against 29-year-old Christopher Freeman, including two counts of burglary and two counts of theft involving stolen firearms and two counts of theft from a building. Online court records allege the incidents [...]

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