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The Wamego City Commission approved two ordinances amending the utility payment code. At Tuesday’s meeting, City Manager Merl Page reviewed the ordinances related to deadline of payments, defining and restoration of services in the event of disconnection for non-payment. The ordinance states the billing for utility services is due on the 1st day of each month and must be paid by 4:30 p.m. on the 16th day of that month at the City offices, or on-line by 7:30 p.m. on the 16th day of each month. The other related ordinance deals with disconnection and the fees applicable before services can…
Manhattan City Commissioners approved an ordinance on first reading prohibiting the use of electronic cigarettes in public places and places of employment. It also heard some backlash from local E-cigarette and Vapor businesses including vape shop owner Crayton Caswell, of Manhattan Vapors. Caswell expressed his concern that vaping provides an alternative to tobacco use and this ordinance undermines the distinction between the two products. Caswell shared a statistic of a two percent drop in the smoking rate in the United States in 2015, which was the first period of time e-cigarettes were widely available on the market, adding it is…
A Herington man died in a Tuesday afternoon accident in Morris County. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Eugene Ecklund, 79, was a passenger in a vehicle driven by Jean Ecklund, 77, also of Herington. The 2003 Dodge Grand Caravan the two were in was eastbound on highway 56 when it crossed the center line going across the westbound lane and striking a culvert. The vehicle rolled one time and came to rest in the north ditch. Eugene Ecklund who had a seat belt on died in the accident, with Jean Eklund who did not have a seat belt on taken…
Monday’s Pottawatomie County Commission meeting included reports from Public Works Director Peter Clark and the K-State Research and Extension office of Pottawatomie County. Clark proposed hiring a consultant to perform a 20 year life-cycle cost analysis on the current County Appraiser’s Office to determine the best course of action moving forward. The analysis is set to cost approximately $8,000 and will provide county commissioners with a variety of options in either renovating the existing building or starting construction on a new one. Clark stated the County Commission and himself share the same value of saving taxpayers the most money while…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas says its tax collections fell nearly $13 million short of expectations in October for the state’s sixth consecutive monthly shortfall. The state Department of Revenue’s report Tuesday came a week before the election with allies of Republican Gov. Sam Brownback facing a backlash in legislative races over the state’s budget problems. The state collected $447 million in taxes last month when its official projection was nearly $460 million. The shortfall was 2.8 percent. Since the current budget year began in July, total tax collections of $1.8 billion have fallen more than $80 million short of expectations…
MANHATTAN, Kan. (Ryan Lackey) – Kansas State junior punter Nick Walsh is one of 52 candidates nationally, including four from the Big 12, to be named a candidate for the 2016 Burlsworth Trophy, the Springdale Rotary Club announced Tuesday. The Burlsworth Trophy is presented to the most outstanding football player in America who began his career as a walk-on and has shown outstanding performance on the field. Walsh is the Wildcats’ fifth candidate since the award’s inception in 2010, joining William Powell (2010), B.J. Finney (2011-12), Ryan Mueller (2013) and Jonathan Truman (2014). Finney and Truman both advanced to become…
The 2016 presidential election has reached unprecedented levels of incivility, according to an ongoing collaborative research project that involves Kansas State University researchers and students. The project — a partnership between Kansas State University’s Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy and the National Institute for Civil Discourse — focuses on civility in the presidential and vice presidential debates. Results based on student surveys after the first three debates have shown that 2016 candidates are engaging in behavior that violates civil behavior and the traditional rules of engagement. The Kansas State University student participants will fill out the final presidential debate…
A Manhattan woman faces a theft charge in Pottawatomie County following her Monday arrest by Officers with the Riley County Police Department. 24 year old April Garner was taken into custody at the Riley County Police Department for the offense of theft of property or services listed on a warrant from Pottawatomie County. At last report she was still confined at the Riley County Jail. Garner faces two pending cases in Pottawatomie County with the most recent from June of this year involving Fritzon and Freiling Auto Sales. The bond on that warrant is $5,000. ### A collaboration between the…
The Manhattan Fire Department responded to a fire at an apartment building on Halloween night shortly after 7:30. Crews arrived at 926 Bluemont Ave. #9 for a report of an extinguished kitchen fire. Crews entered the apartment to ensure the fire was extinguished. One resident of the apartment was home at the time, and was uninjured. The building has an estimated loss of $10,000 with an additional $100 in damage to contents in the apartment unit. The property management company is McCullough Development and the owner is listed as BHD, LLC. both of Manhattan. The cause of the fire is listed…