The Wamego City Commission made decisions on several key issues at Tuesday’s meeting. City Manager Merl Page requested permission to move forward with negotiating an agreement with MCM (Midwest Concrete Products) for leasing 5 acres of land south of their plant on Balderson Boulevard to use as a practice facility for the different sporting activities offered in Wamego. According to Page, MCM’s CEO Rob Eichman offered the land for a lease of $1.00 per year to use for practice fields until MCM needs the property. Page said the issue of needed practice fields came to light after the Kansas Sampler…
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Jewish worshipers returned on Wednesday to the Jerusalem synagogue that was attacked on Tuesday. Two Palestinian men killed 5 people. The attackers died in a shootout with police.
Massive mounds of snow are piling up in western New York State. More than four feet of snow fell in parts of Buffalo on Tuesday, while a second snowstorm is expected on Thursday. Temperatures dropped below freezing from coast to coast.
The Manhattan City Commission considered a request Tuesday to add new signage to the lot containing Mercy Regional Health Center and other health buildings. “It’s somewhat confusing for people going to the campus on just which building is which and which entrance is for which doctor and so that’s why they’re adding these signs. There’s 10 signs in all,” said Eric Cattell, assistant director for planning. The Commission also approved updates to aging sign regulations. “We researched regulations from similar cities around Kansas and other cities around the county,” Cattell said. City staff has conducted 15 public focus groups and…
It was standing room only on Tuesday night at the Kansas State Student Union as a first of its kind panel formed to tackle the issue of law enforcement’s use of racial profiling with a panel sponsored by the K-State Black Student Union. The panel consisted of Riley County Police Director Bradley Schoen, Philosophy professor John Exdell, Riley county Police Department Community Advisory Board chair Corey Leavell, Assistant director of the office of Institutional Equity and Community Advisory board member Michelle White-Godinet, nad Anthropology professor Jeremy Briggs. The panel used a recent study released by the American Civil Liberties Union…
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Missouri) presented House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-California) with Kansas City BBQ, to pay off their friendly bet on the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Kansas City Royals.
Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and the Keystone XL oil pipeline bill sponsor, walks from a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014. The U.S. Senate has rejected a proposal to fast-track the approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. The vote was 59-41, one short of the 60 necessary for passage.
KSU men pick up a win vs UMKC. Audio from Coach Snyder and players from today’s press conference. Get Fit to end hour 1. You Can’t Be Serious to wrap the show.
Manhattan Area Technical College’s President and CEO Dr. Robert J. (Rob) Edleston announced to his Board of Directors on Tuesday that he will enter into retirement on July 1, 2015, after serving in the office for more than a decade. Edleston is the senior technical college president and eighth most senior community college or university president of the 32 Regents institutions in Kansas. Edleston spent twenty years in the U.S. Air Force retiring in the mid-1990s, spent almost ten years as middle management at Southeast Arkansas College before followed his heart and passion to Manhattan in November of 2004. “This…
On today’s In Focus, Cathy spoke with Manhattan Mayor, Wynn Butler and Manhattan City Manager, Ron Fehr.