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.
Author: KMAN Staff
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.
Ebola was first discovered in 1976, but just recently made international news, with more than 10,000 currently having the illness. However there have been only three confirmed cases in the United States. Riley County Public Health Emergency Preparedness Coordinator Jason Orr told intergovernmental leaders Monday, while 50 percent of those in Africa have passed away, there are risk factors there the United States does not have–with people able to recover with appropriate care.Orr adds while ebola definitely is a health concern, we shouldn’t lose sight of other diseases such as whooping cough or influenza. What to release to the media,…
On today’s In Focus, Cathy talked to Director of Conferences and Non-Credit Programs with the Global Campus at Kansas State University , Jeff Wolfe; Manhattan Building Official, Brad Claussen; and Suzan Barnes with Grand Central Hotel in Cottonwood Falls.
After returning from a fire in Ogden, Riley County Fire Chief, Pat Collins spoke to the Riley County Commission about fireplace inspections during their Monday meeting. Ogden Elementary students were evacuated Monday morning, due to a small fire reported in the principal’s office. The fire caused the smoke detectors to go off, and students and faculty managed to leave the building in under a minute. Although the cause of the fire is unknown, Collins said there was only $100 damage to a power outlet. Collins transitioned from this topic, to his smoke detector topic he had prepared. Since Sunday is…