The Flint Hills Metropolitan Planning organization has a new Transportation Planner. Stephanie Watts, who has been serving with the Kansas Department of Transportation in a similar role, has been hired to work with the local group. The announcement was made at the group’s Wednesday meeting. Watts says the Flint HIlls Metropolitan Planning organization’s policy board dealt with just a few items earlier this week, taking action on the technical advisory board’s by-laws. A chair and vice-chair are to be selected to that group next month. In addition the local match for 2014 was approved by the group. Watts doesn’t…
Author: KMAN Staff
We’d recently heard about the closing of the Saline County Juvenile Detention Facility, and that will have a positive impact on Riley County in terms of expenses for the North Central Kansas Regional Juvenile Detention Center, located in Junction City. That’s according to Riley County Commission Chair Dave Lewis, who also serves as the Vice-Chair of the detention facility board. Saline County this week asked to become a member of the North Central Kanas group. Lewis tells KMAN the subject was examined in detail at the board’s Wednesday meeting. Lewis adds for Riley County the cost to participate will decrease in the neighborhood…
Update-Second Half of Meeting Riley County GIS Intern, Ethan Britt will be graduating this weekend from Kansas State University. Before he leaves, he presented a very special project, he has been working on, to the county commission. Britt created a new Historic Sites of Riley County map, which features 80 different locations. Each site is numbered on the light brown map. Each number then coincides to brief paragraphs describing the history of the site. County Historical Museum Director, Cheryl Collins said they have been waiting on someone to update the old map for years. The commission expressed their gratitude by…
By Mollie Miller 1st Inf. Div. As the clock winds down on America’s longest period of armed conflict, Army senior leaders are busy framing a future force designed to thrive in a changing global environment. This new force will be agile and adaptable and “will be asked to do more” to ensure the nation’s security, the Army’s senior officer said May 14 during a visit to Fort Riley. “Throughout time, our Army has been given one major mission, and that is to win our nation’s wars,” said 38th Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno. “We are not going…
Readers of all ages will explore things underground and beneath the surface, and discover groundbreaking reads this summer with Manhattan Public Library’s “Dig Into Reading” program. Summer reading begins with a kickoff party at the library on Saturday, June 1 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. This year’s party will be indoors, so no one will have to worry about hot, cold, or stormy weather! The 2013 Summer Reading Program is open to people of all ages, from babies to adults, with programs, prize drawings, story hours, reading clubs, and more. Registration for “Dig Into Reading” begins on May 20th,…
AFH’s last basketball game before the Kansas State Basketball team moved to Bramlage Coliseum. March 5, 1988 vs. Missouri.
Officials in Texas are awaiting daybreak to fully assess the scope of the destruction left in the wake of a deadly tornado in Granbury that killed six people.
President Barack Obama says the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Steven Miller, has submitted his resignation in the aftermath of an investigation that found the agency improperly targeted conservative groups.
After getting swept in a three-game series by the New York Yankees at the end of their homestand, the Kansas City Royals turned things around against the underachieving Los Angeles Angels by winning two out of three in the series. Lorenzo Cain hit a three-run double and Billy Butler capped his most productive series of the season with a two-run single, leading the Royals (20-17) to a 9-5 victory Wednesday night and helping them climb within 1½ games of AL Central-leading Detroit. Butler, who entered this series in a 4-for-35 rut, went 8-for-13 with a home run and nine RBIs in…
The Mutual of Omaha, Wild Kingdom TV series, was a popular show that aired for over 25 years, from 1963-1988. Hosts, Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler, traveled around the world to educate viewers about animals and their natural habitats. The show will return this fall, and Mutual of Omaha is holding an online competition to find a new host, or “Wild Guide”. Out of 200 applicants, 12 semifinalists remain; and one of them, is nature enthusiast, world traveler and K-State alumna, Regina Busse. She began her travels in 2004, and has visited over 50 countries. To reach the next level in…