The City of Manhattan will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, March 25, to celebrate the opening of the new Douglass Activity Center. The ceremony, which will happen about one year after construction began, will begin at 3:30 p.m. at 925 Yuma St. and feature a number of speakers. Among the speakers who will be at the event are Manhattan Mayor Wynn Butler, city manager Ron Fehr, chair of the Douglass Center Advisory Board Deb Nuss and assistant director of Manhattan Parks and Recreation Wyatt Thompson. Following the ceremony, visitors can tour the building, interview city officials and watch the…
Author: KMAN Staff
One year after partially closing, Meadowlark Hills Retirement Community is officially reopening its Kimball Ave. entrance and suspending the use of the Tuttle Creek Blvd. check-point station. It will also begin allowing visitors on campus who do not have a current or suspected positive COVID-19 diagnosis, are not showing illness symptoms and are not a current COVID-19 close contact. People visiting Meadowlark’s Community Center will be allowed in common and public areas, such as the Prairie Star Restaurant and the Courtyard. These are not the first restrictions that have been lifted for the facility. Independent-living-area residents have been allowed to…
The Kansas Senate has given approval to Senate Bill 267. If it passes both chambers, the bill would rely on federal COVID-19 funding rather than Kansas tax dollars to cover up to $568 million of public education obligations in the proposed two-year budget. Tom Hawk, state senator, says disputes have arose surrounding this bill. He adds that the intentions his fellow colleague had while introducing the bill aren’t as bad as they seem. “What she was hoping to do by cutting that was to be able to use the new federal funds, the new recovery funds called ARP, the latest…
On Friday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with Greg McClure with Riley County K-State Extension. Deb Watkins with the Animal Shelter also joined the program. And in our final segment Dave Baker and Recreation/Fitness Coordinator Kyliah Kellerman with the Douglass Center joined the program.
The following summary of calls for service/reports filed by the Riley County Police Department is a portion of those received by police. Some names, addresses, and case details are withheld to follow local, state, and federal law as well as in an attempt to protect community members from being victimized further. Those arrested are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. MANHATTAN, KAN. – Officers filed a report for aggravated criminal sodomy and criminal restraint in Manhattan on March 18, 2021, at approximately 9:35 a.m. Officers listed an 18-year-old male as the victim and a 24-year-old male known…
OMAHA, Neb. — A new monthly survey of bankers points to a quickly recovering economy in rural parts of 10 Plains and Western states as the survey’s individual indicators soared and the overall index rocketed to its highest reading since it began in 2006. The overall index of the Rural Mainstreet Survey shot up more than 18 points to 71.9 in March from February’s 53.8. Any score above 50 suggests a growing economy. Creighton University economist Ernie Goss credits in part sharp gains in grain prices, federal farm support and the Federal Reserve’s record-low interest rates. Bankers from Colorado, Illinois,…
TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas legislators are working to give prosecutors and courts time to clear a backlog of several thousand criminal cases that built up during the coronavirus pandemic, though they disagree about how much is enough time. The Senate approved a bill Wednesday night that would suspend until May 1, 2023, a law aimed at protecting criminal defendants’ constitutional right to a speedy trial. The law requires cases to come to trial within five months of a defendant who has been jailed entering a plea, and within six months if the defendant is free on bond. Lawmakers say there’s…
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — A Kansas City suburb has been ordered to turn over records related to the 2018 police killing of a teenager after The Kansas City Star sued for the documents. The Star reports that a judge found that that the severance agreement for Clayton Jenison must be disclosed under the Kansas Open Records Act. Jenison, who was paid $70,000 through the agreement, didn’t face charges for fatally shooting 17-year-old John Albers as he was backing a minivan out of his family’s garage. The officer had responded to the home because the teen was believed to be suicidal.
City of Manhattan staff presented Wildcat Creek flood models and projections to city and county officials Thursday. From these animated models, staff can see where flooding occurs, how severe it can get and where the water flows. While city commissioner Linda Morse was supportive, she says they must also keep in mind the people who are impacted by other bodies of water. “The only people really involved in this have been the Wildcat Creek public,” Morse said. “The Blue River public and Northview has not been involved at all. That’s why I wanted to be on this, because I wanted to see how…