By Emma Loura The proposed USD 383 budget for fiscal year 2025 would raise taxes by 5% for the average homeowner in the Manhattan-Ogden school district. The USD 383 school board on Wednesday unanimously authorized a mill levy of 59.184 for fiscal year 2026, a 0.725 mill decrease from the 59.909 mill levy in fiscal [...]
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A new nightclub is planned to appear in Aggieville early next year. Allred Management owned Johnny Kaw’s House Bar at 1218 Moro St. since 2011, and now seeks to sell or lease the property. In an email to The Mercury and KMAN, owner Brett Allred said the company plans to combine a nightclub environment with [...]
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Officers filed a report for criminal damage to property in the 800 block of Colorado Street in Manhattan on August 6, 2025, at approximately 7:56 p.m. A 61-year-old man was listed as the victim and a 45-year-old man was listed as the suspect when it was reported he damaged a window. The estimated total loss [...]
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A Topeka-based electric company plans to build a $5 million facility in the Manhattan Business Park, near the airport. The Manhattan City Commission on Tuesday approved, through a 4-0 vote, a real estate agreement totaling $115,060 with Torgeson Electric Company for three vacant lots on 8.5 acres. Commissioner John Matta was absent from Tuesday’s meeting. [...]
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City commissioners on Tuesday unanimously approved a request to vacate a small public utility easement near the hotel project in Aggieville. The easement, in the 1200 block alley between Moro and Laramie Street, was created to allow telecommunications lines to enter the formerly-planned Midtown building while avoiding the narrow alleyways where utility lines were often [...]
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Riley County Police have identified the vehicle involved in a hit and run injury accident that occurred Monday afternoon near 6th Street and Laramie. Through further investigation, officers determined it was a Chevy Silverado, driven by 23-year-old Emma Malleck, of Manhattan. She was cited for failure to perform duty at a crash. The woman on [...]
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One person was cited after striking a motorcyclist with his truck Tuesday morning in southeast Manhattan. According to the Riley County Police Department, a Chevy Silverado driven by 55-year-old Ysidoro Arguello struck a Harley Davidson, driven by 71-year-old Donald Taylor in the 400 block of Levee Drive. Taylor had to be transported by LifeStar helicopter [...]
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The Pottawatomie County Commission’s decision to approve a conditional use permit for a rock quarry in the north-central part of the county was affirmed Friday by the Kansas Court of Appeals. The quarry sits on a portion of an 853-acre plot, just over one and a half miles south of Wheaton. Mid-States Materials is requesting [...]
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By Emma Loura Riley County has hired BBN Architects to manage a possible renovation and expansion of county facilities that could include moving some departments into the former First Christian Church building and a purpose-built judicial center. The county’s Judicial Center Selection Committee on Thursday chose BBN after reviewing and interviewing five firms: Anderson Knight, [...]
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By Cole Bertelsen The Manhattan Area Technical College saw an 11% decrease in state and federal funding starting July 1. “We were reduced about a million dollars out of a $9 million budget,” said James Genandt, the college’s president for the past decade. “That’s a hurt. I had to do a reduction in force with [...]
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