The Manhattan Urban Area Planning Commission earlier this month green lit a plan for a new Culver’s restaurant. The restaurant will be constructed in a vacant lot at the northwest corner of the intersection of McCall Road and McCullough Place, directly west of K-State Credit Union and just in front of Menards. The Planning Commission [...]
Authorities are investigating more vandalism at Anneberg Park. The Riley County Police Department noted in its Tuesday activity report that a criminal damage to property report was filed Monday morning after an unknown suspect damaged a shed, an old baseball score sign and several bulk bags of sand. The estimated total loss associated is around [...]
Riley County volunteer firefighters responded to several out-of-control fires this past weekend, though county officials noted greener vegetation and recent rains helped firefighters extinguish them quickly and prevent further spread. Among the weekend fires, one utility tsk vehicle was destroyed in a seven-acre burn north of Manhattan, and another, unpermitted burn resulted in a citation [...]
The City of Manhattan paid over $11,000 to Lenexa-based Hinkle Law Firm in its failed appeal of attorney fees stemming from a lawsuit involving a damaged residential mailbox. Electronic copies of the records, obtained by KMAN from an open records request earlier this month, show 10 transactions were made between April 5, 2022 and March [...]
Kansas legislators will make their way back to Topeka this week after a two week recess. News Radio KMAN caught up with two of the Manhattan area’s newest legislators this week on In Focus, State Sen. Usha Reddi (D-Manhattan), who assumed Sen. Tom Hawk’s seat in January, following his abrupt retirement and State Sen. Kenny [...]
Friday marks the 11th annual Grow Green Match Day in Manhattan. It’s the day when donations made through the Greater Manhattan Community Foundation to participating nonprofit endowed funds receive a 50% match. Last year, about $1.7 million was raised for 78 area organizations. GMCF President Vern Henricks says this year there are 95 participating nonprofits. [...]
The Manhattan-Ogden School Board on Wednesday approved the purchase of additional security cameras for elementary schools. The district will spend over $142,000 with American Digital Security, LLC, of Liberty, Missouri to purchase cameras both for indoor and outdoor spaces and for a new server capable of holding several days’ worth of information that can be [...]
Registration opened Monday for the 8th annual Camp Kindergarten hosted by the Riley County Health Department and USD 383. It’s open to children eligible to start kindergarten this fall and will be held at Lee Elementary School in Manhattan. The camp is free and the deadline to register is April 30. Applications are available in [...]
Northview Elementary will host its second annual Color Trot April 27 and students will have a refurbished trail to utilize for the event. Just last week, concrete was poured on the trail, which curves around the greenspace east of the school. Principal Nick Goos says the idea came together at the right time, when money [...]
Riley County Police are investigating after an apparent burglary at Vista Drive In. Investigators say a report for burglary and criminal damage to property was filed Thursday afternoon when an unknown suspect reportedly broke into the company’s warehouse and attempted to break into the restaurant overnight. Nothing was reported stolen, however a door was damaged [...]
