Author: Brandon Peoples

We continue our KMAN News Series “From the Principal’s Office” today highlighting the preschools in Manhattan/Ogden Schools. For this edition, we speak with Elisabeth Nelson at College Hill Preschool. Students in kindergarten through 12th grade are not the only ones starting school soon. The community’s youngest learners will be starting their first day of preschool August 20 in the district’s two early childhood education centers. One of those buildings — College Hill is under construction, meaning a temporary space had to be secured. Elisabeth Nelson is the principal and director of early learning. “We’ve recently moved to Trinity Presbyterian Church…

Don’t expect the construction zones across Manhattan to ease up much before the end of the month. On KMAN’s In Focus this week, Manhattan City Manager Ron Fehr updated the progress made so far by Public Works crews on a variety of projects. Weather has delayed some of that progress on multiple projects. Fehr says they had hoped to get most of the work completed by the time classes begin at Kansas State University. “We’re anticipating Kimball west of Hudson should be open to two-lane traffic by the first football game and we hope to have Kimball east of Seth…

Today we visit Manhattan High School as we continue our KMAN news series “From the Principal’s Office.” Manhattan High School students will see a new, but familiar face in the principal’s office for the new school year. MHS Principal Michael Dorst is starting his first year as the school’s principal next week. Dorst had been serving as the assistant principal at MHS for the past six years, and overall has spent 12 years with the district.  He has a combined total of 22 years in education. Dorst says he’s excited to get to work and see the school start to come…

Today we visit Woodrow Wilson as we continue our preview of the upcoming school year in Manhattan/Ogden Schools with our KMAN news series “From the Principal’s Office.” During the summer months, the halls of Woodrow Wilson Elementary in Manhattan have been mostly quiet, with the exception of some kids coming in for summer meals. Principal Deb Nauerth says she’s anxiously awaiting the arrival of students and is hoping for a great year. “Our schools are a home away from home for all of our kids across the district so we’re excited to have them back and they spend a lot of time…

RILEY, Kan. — A Clay County man was killed following a crash Thursday evening along Hwy 77 near Riley. The Kansas Highway Patrol and Riley County Police Department in addition to Riley County EMS responded to the collision just after 5:30 p.m. on Hwy 77, also known as Madison Road. KHP says a passenger car, driven by 20-year-old Kurtis Dean Anderson of Green, Kansas was westbound on US 77 when he swerved into the other lane attempting to not hit a non-contact vehicle. In doing so, the car struck a semi truck head on. The impact caused the passenger car…

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CLAY CENTER, Kan. — Emergency officials in Clay County investigated a bomb threat Thursday morning at a Wendy’s restaurant in Clay Center. According to Clay Center Police Chief Bill Robinson, authorities were alerted to a possible bomb threat around 6:23 a.m. Police called Kansas Highway Patrol who sent their canine unit to investigate and cleared the scene just after 9:30 a.m. Robinson says a sweep of the premises for potential explosive devices found nothing inside the building. The nearby premises were searched, that also resulted in no threats. KCLY Radio in Clay Center first broke the story around 8 a.m.…

JUNCTION CITY, Kan. — The Junction City-Geary County Drug Operations Group got a little more than they bargained for when they served a search warrant Wednesday at Junction City home. Officers were called out to an apartment at 311 West 8th Street as part of an investigation into drug distribution and person crimes. In addition to uncovering heroin, crack cocaine, marijuana, drug paraphernalia and two guns, a small alligator was also wrangled and removed from the home. Police arrested 37-year-old Lauren Vanarsdale Jackson of Junction City on three charges of possession with intent to distribute drugs within 1,000 feet of…

The Flint Hills Breadbasket is in dire need of restocking its shelves. Breadbasket Director Maribeth Kieffer says the need changes at different times of the year which causes inventory to dwindle. “We have just come out of the summer months when children aren’t in school and they’re not getting the hot lunches.  We have been really busy and have seen an unusually high number of people this summer and so our inventory has taken a hit,” Kieffer said. Currently there are a lot of needs in the pantry, as Kieffer alluded to during Wednesday’s edition of KMAN’s In Focus. “Some…

Today we visit Ogden Elementary as we continue our preview of the upcoming school year in Manhattan/Ogden Schools with our KMAN news series “From the Principal’s Office.” Jim Armendariz has lived and breathed Ogden Elementary for most of his life. In 1964 he roamed the hallways as a young immigrant child from Mexico. His family was quite poor and at the time Armendariz could barely speak English. “I came with eight kids and parents and everything we owned in one car. School was hard and not fun and there were a lot of teachers who didn’t understand where I came…