Today’s guests were Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce President Lyle Butler.
Author: KMAN Staff
Members of the USD 383 board of education heard an update on proposed parks and recreation improvements that were discussed at a Manhattan City Commission work session last week. On Wednesday evening, deputy city manager Jason Hilgers told board members about the resolution passed by city commissioners that allows a ballot measure to be prepared for the November election. The quarter-cent sales tax increase would fund $27.5 million in parks improvements — including the addition of two city-owned gymnasiums being built at Susan B. Anthony and Dwight D. Eisenhower middle schools. Hilgers unveiled a timeline for the projects that was also…
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LAWRENCE — The state’s three largest universities will be allowed to ban guns at large sporting events beginning in July. The Kansas Board of Regents’ governance committee on Wednesday approved a request by The University of Kansas, Kansas State and Wichita State to install security measures such as metal detectors and guards — either temporary or permanently — at games. Kansas universities are required to allow concealed handguns on campuses beginning July 1 but the universities can ask for exceptions. Kansas and Wichita State will ban guns from any event expected to draw more than 5,000 people. Kansas State will provide…
Update received by Riley County Police at 8:41 a.m. Thursday: RCPD received a request from Fort Riley to check the welfare of one of their soldiers. Police were initially unable to locate Garett Swift for several hours. In the time between when they began looking for him and when he was located, Fort Riley issued a warrant for Swift’s arrest. After RCPD made contact with Swift and verified that he was safe, RCPD arrested him on the Fort Riley warrant. RCPD Public Information Officer Alexander Robinson stresses at the time both Fort Riley and RCPD issued a plea for the…
Today’s guests on In Focus included Manhattan/Ogden USD 383 School Board member David Colburn with Assistant Superintendent Eric Reid, and also Monica Heasty from the Manhattan Area Technical College’s Admissions Department. Colburn & Reid: Heasty:
Two of three people convicted in connection with a February 1997 murder in Riley County have been passed over for parole. The earliest possible release date for Delisha Branch, 45, is May of 2020 and Shakeer Davis, 37, has a June 2018 date for the earliest chance at being released. The two, along with Duereal Campbell, 37, were convicted of the murder of Wanda Norman, 44, of Manhattan at Norman’s home at Countryside Estates more than 20 years ago. All three were up for public comment sessions in January, with the earliest release in March of this year…but the Kansas Deaprtment…
TOPEKA — Kansas will use $291 million in internal government borrowing to avoid a deficit in its current budget and pay bills on time through June. Republican Gov. Sam Brownback signed the budget bill into law Tuesday. The measure allows the state to avoid short-term cuts in aid to public schools, social services and other programs. The state plans to liquidate a special investment fund and loan most of the proceeds to its main bank account to cover general spending before the fiscal year ends on June 30. The loan would be paid back over seven years. Kansas would still face…
Manhattan City Commissioners voted to approve eight new items to be incorporated into the budget for the 2018 City/University Special Projects Fund, but not without some controversy. Assistant city manager Kiel Mangus told commissioners about the seven items that were recommended for approval but the special projects committee. The projects include updates to the main campus and along the North Campus Corridor. The special fund was created in 1994 after the city annexed Kansas State University, and the projects being funded must be deemed to be of mutual benefit to the community and university. According to Mangus, an eighth item was recommended…
TOPEKA — Hundreds of people have gathered in Topeka for a candlelight vigil in support of a financially troubled nonprofit Catholic hospital that faces an uncertain future. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that nurses, physicians, maintenance staff, security guards, clergy and former patients marched Monday night in front of St. Francis Hospital. Anna Munns, who works in patient access, created the event on Facebook. She says the 378-bed hospital is a “huge part of the community.” St. Francis’s Denver-based owners, SCL Health, has reported financial losses in recent years. It placed St. Francis on the market 11 months ago, leaving 1,600…