The Sertoma service club held it’s fifty-first annual pancake and groundhog feed Saturday morning at Pottorf hall near Cico park in Manhattan. Guests had the option of either paying for their tickets in advance, or to pay at the door. Ticket prices were $5 for adults and $2.50 for children aged 6-12, with kids under 6 eating for free. The ticket got you all you could eat pancakes fresh off the grill and two sausages (groundhogs) with additional sausage available for a small fee. Chair for the event Ann Smit explains that that the Sertoma club’s name itself means service…
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The MHS boys won a thriller 31-30 over Topeka High thanks to Jacob Holloway’s game winning shot with two seconds to go. The Trojans missed two free throws to leave the door open for Holloway to drive the length of the floor and win the game. Manhattan was down 30-26 with under two minutes to go when Jonathan Taylor got the late rally started with a three pointer. Neither team led by more than 5 points in the game and it was tied at halftime 13-13. Holloway led the Indians in scoring with nine points and Taylor had seven. The…
Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan is retiring this month after 30 years with the agency. The retirement is effective Feb. 22, the agency said.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt’s office has filed its expected appeal of a ruling on school funding with the state Supreme Court. Schmidt’s office took the action Friday in hope of overturning a decision last month by a three-judge panel in Shawnee County. The judges said the state isn’t spending enough on public schools to meet its obligation under the Kansas Constitution to finance a suitable education for every child. Legislators would have to boost annual spending on schools by at least $440 million to comply with the order. The lower court ruling came in a lawsuit…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas House plans to name a handmade wooden ballot box that it uses in races for leadership positions for the late lawmaker who made it. The chamber’s Federal and State Affairs Committee is sponsoring a resolution to bestow the honor on the late Rep. Bob Bethell, an Alden Republican. He died in a one-car accident last year driving home after the annual legislative session ended. Bethell had served in the House since 1999. Bethell, a Baptist minister and talented wood worker, made the ballot box in 2002 because he thought leadership elections deserved something better than…
MISSION, Kan. (AP) Police in a northeast Kansas town say a 3-year-old boy shot and wounded himself with a handgun his father had left unattended. Mission police said the boy remained hospitalized in stable condition Friday, a day after the shooting in the father’s apartment. Investigators said in a statement the father was preparing to clean his Glock 9mm handgun and left it unattended within the boy’s reach. While the father’s back was turned, the boy pulled the gun toward himself. The gun discharged, sending a bullet through the child’s forearm, into his abdomen and out of his lower body.…
The year began with a slight jump in the unemployment rate, but job growth shows strength.
Hillary Clinton formally resigned Friday as America’s 67th secretary of state, capping a 4-year tenure and telling State Department staffers “I was honored to serve and lead as part of a huge extended family.”
On today’s first InFocus of February, Cathy talks with State Senator Tom Hawk of Manhattan, followed by Ginny Barnard, the Riley County Extension Family and Consumer Sciences Agent, and Bonnie and Jim Sherow on recent trip to Washington D.C. for the presidential inauguration and an essay they wrote. [mp3-jplayer]
PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) An historic Pittsburg theater will hold its first public event in nearly 30 years in April. The 90-year-old Colonial Fox Theatre will be the site of a live antique auction on April 27. People who are working to restore the theater say they hope the auction is the first of a wide range of events at the theater. The Joplin Globe reports the theater was one of several buildings that anchored Pittsburg’s downtown entertainment and nightlife district in the past. But it closed to the public in 1985 and fell into disrepair. A group of volunteers began…