WAMEGO — Wamego High School principal Chad Brecheisen has announced his resignation, following a special USD 320 board meeting Wednesday night. The circumstances regarding the resignation or the settlement were not disclosed. The meeting was the fourth in a series of special meetings dating back to June 9 for personnel matters. The decision was unanimous 6-0. A posting for the Wamego High principal job was posted Thursday morning, with applications being accepted through July 3.
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WASHINGTON — Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran has broken with most other Republican senators in voting to block President Donald Trump’s administration from selling arms to Saudi Arabia. The Kansas City Star reports that Moran supported two resolutions Thursday disapproving of Trump’s use of emergency authority to make the sales. Moran was among seven Republicans to vote for the two measures. Fellow Kansas Republican Pat Roberts voted against them. One resolution objected to arm sales based on the Saudi regime’s involvement in a civil war in Yemen and evidence of a role in the murder of U.S.-based columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Moran…
SALINA — Salina police are investigating a widespread bank card fraud in the area. Since Sunday, police have received 147 reports of compromised bank cards, all from Sunflower Bank Customers or people who used a Sunflower ATM machine. KSAL reports Salina Detective Sgt. David Villanueva says the reports started Sunday, when four people reported unauthorized cash withdrawals from their bank accounts. He says the thieves have stolen PIN codes and use those to withdraw the cash. The total amount of losses has not been released but investigators say some people lost thousands of dollars. Authorities say withdrawals using the stolen…
Heavy rains and flooding that inundated Kansas in May and early June are slowing down the state’s wheat harvest. The Wichita Eagle reports the wheat harvest usually starts between early and mid-June and wraps up by mid-July. But the Kansas Wheat Commission says only 1% of the state’s wheat crop was harvested as of Sunday. Typically, about 12% of the crop is harvested by this time, and last year 20% was harvested by mid-June. The delay comes after the state got 10.26 inches of rain in May, more than double the 30-year average of 4.12 inches. It was the wettest…
TOPEKA — State universities will not be increasing tuition this fall for undergraduate students from Kansas. But the state Board of Regents on Wednesday approved tuition increases for some Kansas graduate students and out-of-state undergraduate and graduate students. The regents considered tuition proposals after the Legislature increased state funding for their operations by $38 million for the 2019-20 school year, or nearly 6.5%. Some lawmakers said they expected the universities not to increase tuition in return. Board of Regents members said they focused on helping undergraduates from Kansas the most and believe that they sent a clear message to lawmakers…
TOPEKA — The American Civil Liberties Union is asking a federal judge to make it easier to protest inside the Kansas Statehouse. The group sought to show during a court hearing Wednesday that restrictions on demonstrations violate protesters’ rights to free speech and due legal process. The ACLU asked U.S. District Judge Holly Teeter to block enforcement of the rules while a lawsuit challenging them goes forward. The ACLU sued after three college students were banned from the Statehouse for a year for hanging banners promoting Medicaid expansion in the Statehouse in March. The ban was lifted the next day,…
TOPEKA — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has named former state Senate President Steve Morris as co-chairman of a council she is creating to review the state’s tax laws. The Democratic governor said Thursday that Morris will lead her Council on Tax Reform along with former state Sen. Janis Lee. Morris is a moderate Hugoton Republican who was Senate president from 2005 through 2012. He lost his Senate seat in a primary-election purge in 2012 by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s conservative allies. Morris and Brownback had been at odds over income tax cuts championed by Brownback. Lee is a Kensington Democrat…
Story by Nick McNamara/News Radio KMAN The Manhattan City Commission was largely supportive of the sole proposal they received to renovate the historic Community House in which they would sell the building with limitations and protections of its historical registry status. The Commission discussed the proposal, but held no vote at its Tuesday meeting. The Community House was built in 1917 by Rotarians in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma as a refuge for soldiers of World War I and II and has been on the National and State historical registries since 2006. The current proposal would sell the building, which has…
MANHATTAN — Motorists have had their fair share of detours this month in and around Manhattan. City Manager Ron Fehr on Tuesday’s In Focus said drier weather has helped keep a number of street projects on or ahead of schedule. On Monday, city officials were able to reopen Vanesta Drive. That alleviates some of the congestion as construction continues along Kimball — specifically from Plymouth Road east to Hudson — which will be closed for the Summer. “A lot of businesses in Vanesta Village that relied on some of that traffic going by Kimball are feeling that, so if that’s…
The City of Manhattan and USD383 will share the costs to re-orient the planned Middle School recreation centers to accommodate planned additions at the schools that include storm shelters. The City Commission approved the decision 4 to 1, Mayor Pro Tempore Usha Reddi opposed. The cost of the change will be at most $500,000 (a guaranteed maximum price from McCownGordon) — though city administration believes it will total less than that — to be split 50/50 between the district and city. The two recreation centers will be rotated about 45 degrees in order to allow for multiple entry points into…