Homecare and Hospice held its 15th annual wine walk Thursday in Downtown Manhattan. The wine walk, dubbed he “Promenade on Poyntz”, is an annual fundraiser for the only non-profit hospice provider in the Flint Hills Region. In the event, participants who purchased a ticket, all met up and checked in at the intersection of 3rd and Poyntz. Participants then made their way to a host of local merchants who opened their doors. Twelve of the local downtown businesses served as stops along the promenade. Each store offered a red or white wine as well as a small treat or snack…
Author: KMAN Staff
With some cuts made to the plan for the Manhattan High School West campus construction, the district is still over budget. During the school board meeting Wednesday night, representatives from McCown Gordon and Gould Evans presented the cuts they made to the plan. Project Manager Whitney Lang first went over the things they were able to keep. This included the elements in scope that would allow the ninth graders to be able to make their move to the campus, such as additional classrooms and parking. Other additions include the auxiliary gym, turf for the practice field, and new tennis courts.…
Local voters will be seeing new voting machines at polling places this year. New electronic-voting machines were unveiled to local government officials during a meeting Thursday afternoon. The old machines have been replaced simply because the technology being used needed to be updated. “We started those (the previous voting machines) in 2006,” Rich Vargo, the clerk for Riley County, said. “Their life cycle was projected to be eight years, so we got an extra four years out of them. They had gone beyond their life cycle. And of course with anything new (technology-wise), there’s newer security measures.” Each machine costed…
DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) — Two Cargill employees are being treated for burns after an explosion at a Cargill plant in Dodge City. Cargill spokesman Daniel Sullivan says the explosion occurred early Thursday in a stand-alone building away from the main plant. The two employees were the only people in the building. Their conditions were not immediately available. Sullivan said the cause of the explosion is under investigation. The plant stopped production for the day Thursday while the explosion is investigated. Sullivan said Cargill expected the plant to resume operations soon and said it will meet its commitments to customers.…
DALBEY, Kan. (AP) — Two Missourians were killed when the vehicle they were in was hit by a train in rural northeast Kansas. Atchison County Sheriff Jack Laurie says deputies were called late Wednesday to the scene of the crash near the former settlement of Dalbey. The Atchison Globe reports Laurie says 34-year-old Jeremy McAfee, of Savannah, Missouri, was found outside the truck. He later died at an Atchison hospital. Deputies found 34-year-old Allison Richardson, of Platte City, Missouri, dead at the scene. The sheriff said the truck apparently was stopped on the tracks. The train was believed to have…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A man who helped kidnap a 9-year-old girl in Wichita and assisted her killer is up for parole for the fifth time. The Wichita Eagle reports that Bo Shoemaker told members of the Prisoner Review Board on Wednesday that 56-year-old Donald Wacker should remain behind bars for failing to help his daughter, Nancy Shoemaker. Wacker has a parole hearing next month. He’s already spent 27 years in prison for helping Doil Lane kidnap Nancy near her south Wichita home in 1990. After the abduction, the men drove Nancy to a Sumner County field where Lane raped…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas officials say law enforcement agencies have nearly eliminated a backlog of 2,200 sexual assault kits that had gone untested after the evidence had been collected from victims The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said Thursday that law enforcement agencies have had 2,000 of the kits tested by forensic labs and that the remaining 200 should be tested by the end of the month. Officials say the additional testing allowed 373 biological profiles from the evidence to be entered into a computerized DNA database and resulted in 243 hits that could provide leads. They say two cases…
Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce Director of Membership Sharla Meisenheimer and Military Community Liaison Janet Nichols joined us for an update on the recent AUSA Conference in Washington, D.C., leadership and educational opportunities for businesses coming up from now into early 2020 and a reminder to shop local this holiday shopping season.
A KDOT project will expand a sidewalk on the northside of a K-18 bridge over Wildcat Creek in partnership with the City of Manhattan. The state project will replace the two bridges into one, install longer turn lanes onto Poliska and raise the bridge two to three feet — which is approximately four feet higher than the creek level during the 2018 flash flood. It was originally planned for 2015, but budget cuts caused multiple delays. The state agreed to widen the sidewalk beyond the standard plan on the bridge from six to 10 feet and install a road-side guardrail…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — An anti-abortion group is opposing two candidates for a Kansas Supreme Court vacancy before a state commission selects finalists for Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly. Kansans for Life announced Tuesday that it opposes state Court of Appeals Judge Melissa Taylor Standridge and Shawnee County District Judge Evelyn Wilson. The move comes as conservatives seek to overturn a Supreme Court decision protecting abortion rights and to require state Senate confirmation of the justices. A nominating commission is set to interview 20 applicants Thursday and Friday. After it picks three finalists, Kelly will appoint one, with no role for…