On today’s In Focus, Cathy spoke with Pottawatomie County Commissioner, Pat Weixelman; Health Director, Leslie Campbell; and County Clerk, Nancy McCarter. She also talked to Dr. Steven Smethers,.Associate Director for Undergraduate Studies, A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Kansas State University; Professor Emeritus and Co Founder of the Great Plains Radio History Symposium Dave McFarland.
Author: KMAN Staff
Wamego’s USD 320 Board of Educations called a Special meeting to discuss issues from the last meeting. At Monday’s meeting, Board President Richard Weixelman began the discussion of the Board’s advertising policy. The issue is an advertisement on the new scoreboard at the Sports Complex purchased by the Booster Club, who secured the advertising from a local liquor store, which was approved by the then Assistant Athletic Director. Superintendent Denise O’Dea had a handout of KASB’s (Kansas Association of School Boards) policy at the last meeting, spelling out “ads promoting the sale of any controlled substance, drug paraphernalia or any…
A teenager whose case got a lot of attention last May following a shooting on Manhattan’s north side was sentenced Monday morning to an underlying sentence of 25 months with the Kansas Department of Corrections and placed on probation for 18 months. Daeshawn Bryant of Manhattan was ordered to serve 60 days as a condition of probation. Bryant was originally charged with aggravated battery with a firearm in connection with the shooting of Dareen Starks,23, of Manhattan, who required treatment for several days following. But that charge and others were dropped as the case reportedly involved self-defense. Bryant ended up only…
Nearly every retail sector monitored by the Manhattan Finance Department is up 1-3% this month compared to this month last year. Finance Director, Bernie Hayen shared Manhattan’s sales tax numbers for October Tuesday morning. $1,049,448 was collected this month, which is up from last month’s figure of $832,645. Collections were also higher than the City’s prediction of $1,031,082. This month’s collections are up $36,214 when compared to the budget. This month was the highest month for sales tax collections so far this year, as October is the first month of 2014 to have over one million dollars in collections.
The Rob Ford era is over as Toronto elected a new mayor, someone who is unlikely to ever make headlines for illegal drug use and public drunkenness. John Tory, a straight-laced, button-down moderate conservative, won Monday’s election.
Hawaii officials will make arrangements for those living in the path of a lava flow to watch the destruction of their homes. Lava was about 100 yards from a home on Monday.
For their third, and final, meeting of the year, the Riley County Board of Health (BOH) focused primarily on two major assessments: the Comprehensive Community Needs Assessment and the Local Public Health System Assessment. The Riley County Commission serves as the board of health, so this open meeting was held in the commission room on Monday evening. Several dignitaries and local officials were in attendance, including Representative of the 66th District, Sydney Carlin and Manhattan City Commissioner, Usha Reddi. After Riley County Health Department Director, Brenda Nickel provided some opening remarks, President of En Visage Consulting, Connie Satzler shared a…
A fund set up for the family, and soldiers on Fort Riley was robbed by its own manager, and now that man has plead guilty to the act. 59-year-old Micheal Steffens of Junction City entered the guilty plea on Monday in federal court. According to court documents Steffens admitted to stealing approximately $62,000 in cash and coins from the U.S. Army’s Family and Morale, and Welfare and Recreation Fund(MWR). Steffens was in charge of the change fund for the program, and stole over the past year. Steffens faces sentencing on February 9, 2015. U.S. District Attorney Barry Grissom thanked the efforts…
Fans of the St. Louis Cardinals leave flowers and candles outside Busch stadium as the sports world says goodbye to 22-year old outfielder Oscar Taveras.
Javier Limon, the husband of Teresa Romero, the nursing assistant who is infected with Ebola, leaves a media conference in Madrid, Spain, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014. Ten people who had contact with a Spanish nursing assistant who survived Ebola have been released from a Madrid hospital, among them the woman’s husband. Javier Limon. A spokeswoman for Carlos III hospital says they left Monday after 21-days under observation with no symptoms. Nursing assistant Teresa Romero was cleared of the virus last week but is still being treated for aftereffects.