Manhattan’s Customer Service Department is closed the rest of this week due to staffing shortages resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The City says in a release that services are still available by phone and online. Utility payments can be made using the drop box in the southeast parking lot at City Hall or via cityofmhk.com. To request utility connection or disconnection, please call 785-587-2480. City Hall is open through Wednesday and closed Thursday and Friday for Christmas. “We continue to do everything we can to minimize the spread of the disease, protect our employees and customers, and provide services for…
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The Greater Manhattan Community Foundation Hour featured a discussion with Meadowlark in segment one and the rest of the hour was dedicated to Manhattan philanthropist and former K-State Dean of the College of Business C. Clyde Jones, celebrating his 98th birthday Monday. Friends and community members called in to wish him well.
Outgoing Riley County Emergency Management Director and Fire Chief Pat Collins joined us for the hour reflecting on his 43 year career with the county. Collins is retiring from public at the end of the year.
A $3 million grant has been awarded to a Kansas State University researcher to improve the resilience of smallholder livelihoods through the application of digital and geospatial decision support tools under diverse farming systems. Associate Agronomy professor Ignacio Ciampitti received the grant from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Sustainable Intensification. He’ll lead the three-year project which involves farming systems experts in the area of crop-livestock integration, modeling, mobile technologies and remote sensing for crop mapping, production and human nutrition. Ciampitti will lead a consortium of researchers from five U.S. universities, establishing a strong collaboration with…
Riley County Police Department officers will not face criminal charges for their involvement in the fatal shooting of a Manhattan man. The announcement was made Friday by Barry Wilkerson, Riley County attorney, who says he believes the officers were justified in their actions. Jarred Kemp, 41, was shot on Oct. 2 by an officer after reportedly pointing a gun at his father’s head. Kemp’s father had put himself between Kemp and the officers and attempted to get Kemp to give up the gun. Instead of giving up the firearm, Kemp proceeded to beat his father and hit him with the…
This annual adoption event, offered now through December 23rd, attempts to house animals before the holiday stress of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. T. Russell Reitz Animal Shelter Director Deb Watkins realizes Christmas is probably going to look different this year for a lot of people, but the prevailing trend is, “People are adopting”. “Right now we have about 13 dogs and cats available. So, let’s get them all in homes for the holidays so that they’re in their homes for Christmas,” Watkins said. “So far our numbers this year, you know, we’ve done 972 adoptions… It is a bit…
LINCOLN, Neb. — – A whistleblower says a cash-strapped Kansas foster care contractor spent $80,000 on tickets to see the Chicago Cubs, a club owned by the Nebraska governor’s family, as it sought new business in that state. St. Francis Ministries bought the tickets in 2019. That same year, the agency was awarded a $197 million, five-year contract from the state of Nebraska to oversee the care of abused and neglected children in the Omaha area. The Omaha World-Herald reports that Nebraska’s Department of Health and Human Services says St. Francis won the contract because it presented the best bid.
TOPEKA, Kan. — Doses from Kansas’ first shipment of a COVID-19 vaccine are arriving in rural Kansas for hospitals to administer to health care workers, though the state expects its second shipment to be smaller than anticipated. The state health department said Thursday that Kansas received its first full shipment of two doses of the Pfizer vaccine for 23,750 people. Agency spokeswoman Ashley Jones-Wisner says federal authorities initially told Kansas that it would get a second vaccine shipment of 29,000 doses next week, but the state has since learned it will receive 17,550 doses. She did not elaborate.
DODGE CITY, Kan. — Investigators have concluded that angry emails about mask requirements that prompted a Kansas mayor to resign did not directly threaten her safety. Dodge City Mayor Joyce Warshaw resigned Tuesday. City police, the city attorney and the Ford County prosecutor reviewed three emails sent to Warshaw. The Dodge City Daily Globe says the emails were written by a man in Kentucky who was upset the city didn’t implement a mask requirement sooner. The mandate was imposed Nov. 16. Warshaw said Thursday that she is relieved with the finding, but that she has received verbal and other communications…
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 2200 block of College Ave. in Manhattan on December 17, 2020, at approximately 8:10 a.m. Officers listed a 20-year-old male as the victim when it was…