The online retailer Amazon plans a one million-square-foot fulfillment center in the Wichita area. The Wichita Eagle reported Friday that the center will be in Park City and will be similar to one in Kansas City, Kansas. Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon’s vice president of global customer fulfillment, said the company is “excited to continue our growth and investment across Kansas so we can better serve our customers throughout the state.” Amazon also recently selected a Wichita site for another distribution center. That 140,000-square-foot delivery station opens later this year. The Park City center will open in 2021.
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Rock Creek Public Schools had an encouraging Count Day this year. Rock Creek superintendent, Kevin Logan, tells KMAN the district was excited to receive their final count day numbers and to see that their numbers went up by 22 students. Logan says this puts them near 1200 students total for Pre-K through 12. “We actually anticipated being somewhat flat this year. We knew that we had lost about 20 students to either remote or a virtual learning environment. And to be up 22 was really a surprise because that put us back up to our average of the last five…
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 theft in the 3900 block of Bayside Way in Manhattan on October 15, 2020, at approximately 6:29 a.m. Officers listed a 20-year-old male as the victim when it was…
On Friday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with KSRE 4H Agent John Jobe. We also spoke with Jami Ramsey with the Senior Center. Marcia Locke with the Johnson Cancer Center also joined the program. And in our final segment we spoke with K-State Econ. Club Advisor Dan Kuester and Club VP Suzanne Roggenkamp.
Data collected by Kansas State University’s Economics Club shows the cost of living for an average K-State student has decreased in the past year. The 2020 Student Price Index (SPI), compiled by the Kansas State University Economics Club, decreased by 1.5 percent from 2019, while the national Consumer Price Index increased mildly at a rate of 1.4 percent from 2019 before seasonal adjustment. The Student Price Index is based on prices collected on a bundle of goods a typical Kansas State University student purchase compared to the previous year’s prices. Sophomore in Economics and VP of the K-State Economics Club…
Advanced voting in Riley County just began on Wednesday and the votes are already rolling in. “The first day, we had 344 people vote on the machines, three by paper and 92 provisionals,” Rich Vargo, Riley County clerk, said during a meeting involving Riley County and Manhattan commissioners. Vargo says there has been an uptick in provisional ballots being cast in part because people who requested a mail-in ballot changed their mind about how they wanted to vote. Once a voter applies to vote by mail, the only other way to vote is through a provisional ballot. If a voter…
A Riley County Emergency Medical Services employee has tested positive for COVID-19. Riley County EMS was notified Wednesday that the part-time employee tested positive and believe the employee was exposed during their last shift. The employee was last on duty and in contact with the public on Oct. 8. While contact tracing for this case is still in progress, the employee is believed to be the only emergency-services worker or member of the public to have been exposed. Riley County EMS will not publish news releases covering positive cases among employees in the future. Instead, it will address such information…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Republican state treasurer and Democratic Topeka mayor who are running for the open seat in Kansas’ 2nd Congressional District clashed over police reform and racial justice in a debate. Jake LaTurner, the state’s treasurer, was on the attack Wednesday for much of the 30-minute debate, televised by KSNT in Topeka. He accused Michelle De La Isla, Topeka’s first Latina mayor, of holding “radical” beliefs such as defunding police, The Kansas City Star reports. De La Isla said she does “not support defunding the police” and called a LaTurner ad that suggested she was actively doing…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — With COVID-19 cases surging in rural areas across the Midwest, a county sheriff in northwestern Kansas found himself struggling to breathe and landed in a hospital room more than an hour from home because there was no space at the local medical center. The county’s emergency management director, the hospital CEO and more than 50 medical staff have also tested positive. Most of the 30-plus residents in the local nursing home caught the virus, and six have died since late September. Gove County, with a population of 2,600, is among many rural counties in Kansas and…
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 theft and criminal trespass in the 200 block of S. Seth Child Rd. in Manhattan on October 14, 2020, at approximately 7:47 a.m. Officers listed a 51-year-old female and…