The Manhattan City Commission approved an economic development package for a local company, voted to rezoned a plot on Laramie Street, and discussed new city and commercial planning regulations as well as a new policy on special events with alcohol at their meeting in City Hall on Tuesday. The commission approved the economic development package for Ultra Electronics I.C.E. Inc., an aerospace electronics business founded in Manhattan that was bought out by a U.K. holding company in 2014. The package was initially approved at commission’s first reading on June 6 and was not altered. Ultra Electronics is looking to expand and…
Author: KMAN Staff
The 2018 winter wheat harvest is underway and some local producers have been seeing better than expected results. “It’s been going real good,” said Dan Higgins, manager of the Farmway Co-op in Leonardville. “I think everybody is kind of surprised that the wheat is a little better than they actually thought it was going to be after all the dry weather.” Higgins told KMAN Tuesday Farmway is about 50 percent done with the harvest and averaging test weights of 60 pounds per bushel and yields averaging close to 40 bushels per acre. “That’s fairly typical for this area,” he said.…
TOPEKA — The state of Kansas has joined a multistate lawsuit challenging the legality of an immigration program that grants temporary legal status to immigrants without proper documents who came to the U.S. as children. The program, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, was established by former President Barack Obama in 2012. About 7,000 people in Kansas have obtained work permits under DACA. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said Monday he joined the lawsuit last week at the request of Gov. Jeff Colyer. Colyer said in a statement the lawsuit seeks to roll back executive overreach of Obama’s…
Tuesday’s guests were Manhattan Mayor Linda Morse and City Manager Ron Fehr.
The Riley County Law Board approved the 2019 Riley County Police Department budget at their meeting in Manhattan City Hall on Monday. The board voted 6 to 1 to approve the $797,000 increase from 2018 to a total budget of about $21.5 million for the year 2019. Riley County Commissioner Ben Wilson was the sole dissenter. The board had approved a draft that raised the 2019 budget to $21.6 million at a previous meeting, but approved this slightly smaller draft instead. That previously approved budget also included provisions for three new correctional officers which was not initially included in the…
The Kansas Supreme Court will conduct a special evening session Sept. 24 at Manhattan High School in Manhattan as part of its ongoing outreach to familiarize Kansans with the high court, its work, and the overall role of the Kansas judiciary. According to a press release from the Office of Judicial Administration, the court will be in session from 6:30 p.m. to about 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24, in the Manhattan High School Auditorium at 2100 Poyntz Avenue. It will be the Supreme Court’s first visit to Manhattan in the court’s 157-year history, and it will be only the ninth…
MINNEAPOLIS — A man from Maine will be sentenced in August after being found guilty of killing a Kansas man while on a cross-country trip. The Salina Journal reports 35-year-old Robert Colson, of Bucksport, Maine, was convicted Friday of killing Matthew Schoshke of Tescott in August 2017 during a burglary at Schoshke’s home. Prosecutors said Colson shot Schoshke five times before stealing his pickup, several other items and his dog. Colson drove to California, where he was arrested while trying to escape from an Amtrak train after a train passenger was stabbed. Prosecutors said Colson was on a bus trip…
MAYFIELD — Kansas farmers are harvesting a smaller winter wheat crop amid an ongoing drought, but the size of the crop is offset some by higher-quality wheat and rising prices. Kansas Wheat marketing director Aaron Harries says the state’s harvest is probably close to the halfway mark. The hot, dry weather this past week has created ideal harvest conditions. Yields are down but test weights are mostly good. Growers are also seeing higher protein levels in many loads, which leads to higher prices. Kansas is the nation’s leading wheat producer with a forecast of 270 million bushels, down 19 percent…
LAWRENCE — The Lawrence City Commission this week will again consider an ordinance creating a community police review board. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the commission will meet Tuesday after multiple revisions aimed at ensuring the board would have sufficient access to police files and recordings. The proposal calls for the board to review racial and other bias complaints made against police when the person filing the complaint disagrees with the findings by the police department. Approval was delayed over concerns that the ordinance allows for the board to be denied access to the police investigation files and recordings. The…
Monday’s guests were McCain Auditorium Executive Director Todd Holmberg and Riley County Historical Museum Director Cheryl Collins.