In just one month scores of community members may gather in Rezac Auditorium at Manhattan High School for what may be a long and impassioned public comment session hosted by the USD 383 board of education. The “mascot issue” is nothing new to the residents of Manhattan, although the topic has resurfaced in 2016 due to ReImage MHK, a new group seeking to rebrand Manhattan High School in an effort to make the Little Apple more culturally friendly. USD 383 has made local and regional media this week after Eric Reid, assistant superintendent, compiled a rough estimate of just how much…
Author: KMAN Staff
TOPEKA — Westar Energy has filed a request to raise its prices by about $17.4 million, which would raise the average residential bill in Kansas by about $1.54 per month. Westar spokeswoman Gina Penzig says the company filed the request with the Kansas Corporation Commission to recover costs that weren’t available when last year’s full price was conducted. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the bulk of the $17.4 million request is related to environmental upgrades at power plants, primarily in the LaCygne Generation Station, to meet federal requirements. Other costs include $6.5 million used to make investments in the grid design…
WICHITA — More than twice as many Kansas voters are now casting ballots at early polling sites across Kansas, compared to the last presidential election. The latest figures from the Kansas Secretary of State’s office show 67,211 people voted in-person as of 8 a.m. Thursday more than double the 33,832 who did so at that point in the 2014 election. Mail-in ballots are going out at roughly the same pace, with 173,893 mail-in ballots sent out since Oct. 19 across the state. Johnson County Election Commissioner Ronnie Metzger says they have broken all-time records every day since in-person voting began Monday.…
Today’s guests were Ken Woods from the Kansas Regenerative Medicine Center and Pawnee Mental Health Executive Director Robbin Cole. Ken Woods: Robbin Cole:
Officers with the Riley County Police Department arrested Tieler Reeves, 19, of Westmoreland, Kansas on October 26, 2016, at approximately 10:00 AM. Reeves was arrested on the offense of probation violation and given a bond of $10,000.00. The original offense listed on this warrant was conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery. Reeves was confined at the Riley County Jail at the time of this report. This arrest took place in the 800 block of Church Ave. in Manhattan. Jeffrey Hughes, 43, of Manhattan, was arrested while at the Riley County Police Department on October 27, 2016, at approximately 1:30 AM. Hughes…
October sales tax numbers for the city of Manhattan were impressive and described as “good” by City Finance Director Bernie Hayen. $970,635 were collected compared to $892,303 last year at the same time. That’s still lower though than the more than one million dollars collected in October of 2013 and 2014. It’s $74,219 more than budgeted for this month. Hayen adds the October numbers actually reflect the amount collected in August. Accomodation and Food Services accounted for about two-thirds of the increase. And a payment from a cellular cable provider for $12,000 was a payment which did not appear last…
In a story Oct. 26 about a Kansas couple whose children were taken into state custody, The Associated Press reported erroneously that an appellate court found that Raymond Schwab tested positive for methamphetamine and opioids during a court-ordered blood screening last year. The court found Schwab tested positive after a urine screening. A corrected version of the story is below: TOPEKA — The Kansas Supreme Court won’t consider the case of a couple whose children were taken into state custody. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the court Friday declined to hear the case of Raymond and Amelia Schwab, who claimed their children were…
Today’s guests on In Focus were: Riley County USD 378 Supt. Cliff Williams and Blue Valley Randolph USD 384 Supt. Brady Burton Mark Claussen, CEO with Konza United Way Melissa Linenberger, Community Volunteer Leader with American Red Cross
Election day is just around the corner and Kansas State Board of Education Incumbent , Denna Horst asks voters to allow her continue to represent the Sixth District. Horst, who visited Manhattan Wednesday, is a Republican candidate from Salina, and she helped to establish a new vision for education in Kansas during her first term. If elected for a second term, Horst says she’ll strive to complete her goal of moving schools away from “teaching to the test” and start focusing on a more complete education for children in the state. “We’d been accrediting schools based on their students’ scores…
Wengui Yan, 61, of Stuttgart, Arkansas, pleaded guilty to one count of making false statements to the FBI while working as a geneticist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture at the Dale Bumpers National Research Center in Stuttgart. Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security Mary B. McCord and Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall of the District for Kansas made the announcement. Yan, a scientist who worked with rice, admitted Monday that he knew about plans to steal samples and send them to China. In his plea, Yan admitted that on Aug. 7, 2013, agents of U.S. Customs and Border…