Roger Sink, the long-time managing partner of accounting firm Sink, Gordon & Associates LLP died over the weekend following a brief illness. He was 87. Sink spent 65 years with the firm, joining full time in 1958, after receiving his Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Kansas State University. As managing partner, Sink worked with clients in general taxation, management services and planning, business management services, estate tax planning and financial planning. He was inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame in 2001. Among his leadership roles, Sink chaired the Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors in 1986.…
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Manhattan City Commissioners will hear from the Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce and the Convention and Visitors Bureau during Tuesday’s work session. The Chamber and CVB will provide mid-year/second quarter economic development updates as well as their 2024 budget proposals. The Chamber is requesting an economic development allocation of approximately $543,000, the same amount approved in 2023. The tourism promotion and visitor attraction funding request for 2024 is nearly $1,383,000, a 6.39% increase over the allocation in 2023. Also on Tuesday’s agenda, the commission will hear an update from the Riley County Police Department. The work session begins Tuesday night…
Riley County Police Officers are working to identify a car responsible for a motor vehicle accident that took place in Manhattan Saturday. Officers responded to a report of an injury crash around 10:30 pm near the intersection of Tuttle Creek Blvd and Casement Road. After arriving on scene, officers located a 2007 Mercury Mariner, driven by 19-year-old Amanda Gaul of Manhattan. Gaul had been traveling northbound on Tuttle Creek when an unknown car crossed into her lane forcing her off the road and into a ravine. The car that failed to stop had not been identified at the time of…
Riley County Police Officers arrested a man over the weekend at the Casey’s General Store in Ogden. 26-year-old Joel Antonio Fernandez of Manhattan was arrested around 11:11 pm Sunday at 329 Riley Avenue. Fernandez was arrested on one count of possession of an opiate, opium, narcotic, or certain stimulant as well as one count of use/possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia into the human body. Fernandez was issued a total bond of $1000. He was still confined in the Riley County Jail at the time of Monday’s report.
Brandon sits down with representatives of Sunset Zoo and the Flint Hills Discovery Center to discuss upcoming events and the latest news.
Officers filed a report for burglary in the 800 block of Mission Ave. in Manhattan on July 22, 2023, around 8:30 a.m. after a 28-year-old man reported his black and yellow Cannondale Habit mountain bicycle was stolen from his shed. The estimated total loss associated with this case is approximately $1,500. Anyone with information can contact Crime Stoppers. Using Crime Stoppers allows you to remain anonymous and could qualify you for a cash reward of up to $1,000. Gregory Garner, 28, of Eskridge was arrested on July 22, 2023, around 3:45 p.m. on a Riley County District Court warrant for two…
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs believe Arrowhead Stadium remains structurally sound and prefer to renovate their famous facility in the coming years, even if the neighboring Royals go through with plans to build a new ballpark elsewhere. The NFL franchise and its Major League Baseball counterpart have played at the Truman Sports Complex since the early 1970s, when Arrowhead opened just across the parking lot from Kauffman Stadium. Both have undergone massive renovations over the years, the most recent tying them to a new lease with Jackson County that expires in January 2031. Yet the Royals…
An Eskridge man was arrested Friday in Manhattan for a number of counts that includes harassment via telephone and a criminal threat. Gregory Walker Garner, 28, was arrested at the 1000 block of Seth Child Road just before 4:00pm in Manhattan. Garner was arrested on two counts of making a criminal threat that caused terror and led to evacuation or disruption, two counts of harassment via a telecom device with a phone call with intent to abuse, threaten or harass and one count of violating his probation. Garner is currently confined in Riley County Jail on a $10,000 bond.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A tactic known as the “Kansas Two-Step” that’s been used by the state Highway Patrol for years to detain out-of-state motorists long enough to find a reason to search their vehicles for illegal drugs violates motorists’ constitutional right against unreasonable searches, a federal judge declared Friday. Senior U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil also notified the patrol that she is ready to impose changes in its policing practices and appoint a special master to audit its work for at least four years. The changes would include a requirement that troopers specifically inform motorists they stop that they…