Looking to shore up future finances, Manhattan is looking at replacing the existing economic development sales tax with one that extends city-wide. City Commissioners at their Tuesday work session discussed 2021 budget requests from the Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce and affiliated organizations like the Convention and Visitors Bureau. They further examined Manhattan’s economic development fund and ways to use existing and possible future revenue to support job creation and employee retention, public infrastructure and housing projects as well as debt and property tax reduction initiatives. Chamber officials requested just over $383,000 in the next fiscal year, a $150,000 drop…
Author: KMAN Staff
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 burglary and criminal trespass in the 5700 block of Saddle Rock Rd in Manhattan on July 14, 2020, at approximately 3:22 PM. Officers listed a 49-year-old female as the…
Local emergency-services departments are set to face off in the 17th annual Battle of the Badges blood drive. The friendly competition will take place at St. Thomas More Catholic Church, which is located at 2900 Kimball Ave., on July 20 from 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and July 21 from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.. In a addition to giving blood, donors will have a chance to vote for either the Riley County Police Department, Riley County Emergency Medical Services or the Manhattan Fire Department. “We all wear a lot of different hats,” Gregg Van De Creek, a captain in…
USD 383 Manhattan/Ogden Schools Assistant Superintendent Eric Reid and school board member Jurdene Coleman previewed Wednesday’s school board meeting and reopening draft plan for the schools. Manhattan Christian College President Kevin Ingram also joined us to discuss the schools plans for the fall.
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 transmit visual of child 12-18 years with intent to harass; offender less than 19 and computer unlawful acts in Manhattan on July 13, 2020, at approximately 4:43 PM.…
Riley County Commissioner Ron Wells and Riley County Clerk Rich Vargo joined us for the hour to discuss mail balloting, advance voting and the upcoming primary as well as CARES Act funding distribution.
The Riley County Commission Monday gave consensus to put a mask recommendation into the county’s next local health order. Commissioners debated the language of the mask recommendation. With Manhattan’s mask ordinance, the commission didn’t want to mandate masks for residents living outside the city, nor have language that closely resembled that. Commissioner John Ford stated the order needed to include the recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and suggested the phrase “strongly encouraged” for masks. “Given the dynamics of everything and where we’re going to be the next couple months or so, I thought back and forth on whether…
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — The latest government report shows the winter wheat harvest in Kansas is nearing completion well ahead of last year or the average for this time of year. The Agriculture Department’s National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that 95% of the state’s wheat crop has now been cut. The state’s other major field crops are also making progress this summer. The agency says that 47% of the corn in Kansas is silking. About 6% of the soybeans are now setting pods. And 9% of the sorghum has headed in the state.
Health officials plan to release a new local health order Friday to go into effect on Monday, July 20. During a Facebook live update, Riley County Health Department Director Julie Gibbs reported 18 new positive COVID-19 tests and 9 recoveries since Friday, July 10. That brings the county to 150 active cases, 202 reported recoveries and 3 deaths out of 355 total confirmed cases. No positive patients are accounted for in Manhattan’s Ascension Via Christi Hospital, though 2 persons with symptoms are at the facility awaiting test results. Overall, nearly 60 percent of all confirmed positive individuals in the county…
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — A former Boy Scout leader was charged with rape and child abuse for crimes dating back years. The Kansas City Star reported 45-year-old Andrew Rowland of Overland Park faces charges of rape, aggravated indecent liberties with a child involving sex, and two counts of child abuse. The allegations in a July 4 criminal complaint date from 2010 to 2018. Rowland was the scoutmaster for Boy Scouts of America Troop 284 in Overland Park.