The Riley County Health Department has named Brenda Nickel of Olpe, Kansas as its new administrator according to a press release issued late Monday afternoon. According to the release, Ms. Nickel is currently employed at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment as Director and Accreditation Coordinator. Nickel has also served KDHE as a Public Health Nurse Consultant. Nickel also was employed as a nurse in the Emporia School District, the Lyon County Health Department and at St. Mary Hospital in Emporia. Ms. Nickel’s educational background includes a diploma from the Newman School of Nursing in Emporia and Bachelor and…
Author: KMAN Staff
In additional to the already vacant Health Department Director position, the childcare supervisor and the childcare facilitator position will both now be vacant by the end of this week. Riley County Commissioners discussed this during their meeting yesterday, with Human Resource Manager, Cindy Volanti leading the discussion. Volanti partnered with County Clerk, Rich Vargo to review the positions. In doing so, they found that the need for a facilitator is much higher than the need for a supervisor. Volanti and Vargo recommended the commission hold off on hiring either position until a new director is appointed. They also recommended hiring…
Manhattan’s “Local” non-profit restaurant closed its doors Sunday, after almost exactly a year of operation. The restaurant opened May third, and was described as one of the first non-profit restaurants in the nation. The restaurant, located in Village West Shopping center, has closed after a day of business Sunday. Blake Bauer, CEO for HCI hospitality tells KMAN the restaurant was losing too much money. For every dollar being donated, they were losing from two to four dollars depending on the month. Bower adds owner Dave Dreiling has done a lot of giving around town and this closure will not stop…
On Monday morning Governor Sam Brownback made the trip up to Kansas State University as part of his tour of Kansas Regents schools. Governor Brownback is conducting the tour to discuss his plans to fund higher education, and met with university leaders as part of that discussion. Governor Brownback says he wants to ensure schools have the stability to make plans for the future. This includes an understanding of the pressures higher education is facing to achieve higher standards. Those improvements for K-State include a higher ranking for the veterinary school, and more engineering graduates. Governor Brownback says higher education…
The Kansas State Track and Field team competed at the outdoor championships this past weekend down in Waco, Texas. The men came away in fourth with the best combined effort in conference history. The women also had a number of solid performances to finish in seventh place over the three days of action from Hart-Patterson Track and Field Complex. The men’s team had two champions at the Big 12 championship meet and scored a total of 96 points in the 21 events. Those 96 points are the most ever scored by the men’s team at the Big 12 Conference Outdoor Track…
Israeli warplanes have carried out strikes in Syria twice in the last three days, and now Israel is deploying two batteries of its Iron Dome rocket defense system to the north of the country.
Two Manhattan residents were involved in a fatal crash in Wyandotte county Saturday evening. The two were passengers on a party bus but they were not injured… they are identified as 27 year old Jamee Schwartz and 30 year old Taryn Oliver. A 26-year-old Kansas City, Kan., woman died after falling out of the bus on Interstate 35 and being struck by three other vehicles. The Kansas City Star reports the victim has been identified as Jamie N. Frecks. The Kansas Highway Patrol says she fell out of the emergency door of the party bus around 9:50 p.m. Saturday as…
Riley County will place an asphalt overlay to RL 376 Fancy Creek Road beginning at the Clay County line and continuing approximately eight miles east to the Winkler Mills intersection. The project will start on Monday, May 6, 2013 and continue through Friday, May 10, 2013. The road will be reduced to one lane during the construction process. Traffic will be allowed through the projects, but drivers should expect delays of up to 15 minutes. Be advised fresh asphalt oil will be applied – take alternate routes when possible. The schedule may change due to weather delays.
LeBron James is the overwhelming choice as the NBA’s Most Valuable Player. The Miami Heat star becomes the fifth player with at least four MVP awards, joining Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan, Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain.
President Barack Obama told college graduates Sunday that only their generation can break the cycle of a political system consumed by “small things” that works for the benefit of a few.