Powercat Gameday returns for its 29th season of K-State football coverage in 2024. This season, the biggest pregame show in the Big 12 will be presented by a four host panel that includes three new hosts. For the first time in nearly a decade, Powercat Gameday will be hosted by a former player. Zach Nemechek, K-State fullback/tight end from 2010-2014, joins the show this season. Nemechek played in 50 career games for head coach Bill Snyder. Won a Big 12 Championship in 2012 and what a part of a senior class that finished with a 38-14 record. Nemechek is now…
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by Emma Loura The start of a new school year involves a good deal of preparation for teachers, and Woodrow Wilson Elementary School second-grade teachers Catelynne LePage and Ina Holmes have high hopes for 2024-25. LePage has been a teacher for six years, starting at Woodrow Wilson as a kindergarten teacher in 2018 before teaching second grade the last two years. She said lesson-planning started a week before classes. To view the full story visit themercury.com
By Ned Seaton – nseaton@themercury.com In property tax rates, Manhattan is in the middle of the pack. New data from the Kansas League of Municipalities puts Manhattan in 15th place out of 26 of the state’s largest cities. The current tax rate here is 150.404 mills; a mill is $1 in tax for every $1,000 in assessed, taxable property value. That figure includes the taxes levied by the city government, the county and the school district — the three big tax entities here and nearly everywhere else in Kansas. The full story can be viewed at the mercury.com
by Michael Goens The jump. The joy. The gold. Tara Davis-Wood-hall has nailed longer jumps, sailed further distances. None though, on so big a stage as the 2024 Summer Olympic Games held in Paris earlier this summer. The big stage carries perspective. World-class athletes in Davis-Woodhall’s category don’t need further hype for world championships, grand prix races and high-caliber competitions. The full story can be viewed at themercury.com
Going into the 2024 football season, there’s no ambiguity around who will be under center for Kansas State football for the first snap of the season. Sophomore Avery Johnson locked up the starting quarterback spot many months ago after impressing coaches, teammates and fans alike throughout the season while splitting time with Will Howard and leading the Wildcats to a bowl victory. However, the pecking order behind Johnson remains a mystery. To view the full story visit the mercury.com
by Toby Hammes Expectations are soaring for Kansas State volleyball as the team enters the second year of the Jason Mansfield era — for good reason. “We’re starting from a completely different spot (than last year),” Mansfield said. “We’re more experienced together. We understand how we want to play together. We have all the pieces. We have good experience, good leadership, good competitiveness and very skilled people at every position. We’re a complete team.” For the full article visit themercury.com
Westwood Elementary third grade student Grayson Silver recently caught a 42-inch catfish while fishing with his family at Homer’s Pond in Junction City. Silver has now qualified to receive the Master Angler Award from the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks. “This fish was really cool. It was as long as me and I am actually getting an award for it, which means I am a professional fisherman. I really like to fish,” said Silver. A video of Silver catching the catfish can be found here.
RCPD recently identified Glen B. Raw, 78, of Junction City, as the man who was killed in a rollover crash Thursday afternoon in Manhattan. Riley County Police officials said a white Honda Civic was eastbound on Anderson when it collided with a green Chevrolet Equinox that was attempting to make a left turn onto Seth Child. Raw was the passenger in the Equinox, and the driver of the Equinox Karen Raw, 77, of Junction City, was life-flighted to Stormont Vail Hospital in Topeka. The driver of the Civic, Ronni Combs, 41, of Riley, was taken by ambulance to Ascension Via…