Finance and Budget Officer Brittany Philips presented Monday to the Riley County Commission the bids for the temporary note approved to pay for sewer projects. The funds are for the University Park Sewer District and the Lake Park Sewer District. They are intended to pay a portion of preliminary costs of engineering, design, and construction [...]
Manhattan High School held its open house on Saturday to show off the new additions that have been added to the high school’s West Campus. The addition was passed via a bond referendum in November 2018. USD 383 Superintendent Eric Reid thanked the contractors, school board members and residents who helped make the addition possible. [...]
A Manhattan man has been arrested for suspected stalking and violating a protection order. 39-year-old Donald Juarez was arrested just after midnight on Saturday at the 100 block of North 11th street in Manhattan. Juarez is charged with two counts of stalking after being served a protection order and two counts of violating a protection [...]
Riley County Public Information Officer Vivienne Leyva presented commissioners Thursday with results of a July public survey, regarding a potential switch to a 4 day, 40 hour work week. Leyva spoke about the first question on the survey. Close to 2,000 respondents took the survey, with greater than half saying the new schedule would make [...]
With the beginning of school around the corner, construction projects are beginning to wrap up for the summer in Manhattan. One of those projects is the Kimball Avenue and Grand Mere roundabout reconstruction. As of July 18, demolition has been completed of the old roundabout according to the City of MHK Public Works Projects website. [...]
The Riley County Fair was held last week, and KMAN had the opportunity to visit and interview some of the participants. Kate Kennedy, Bernie Fancella, and AJ Shaw report. The Riley County Fair wraps up Monday with the 4 H Livestock Auction at 7 p.m. The Pottawatomie County Fair begins [...]
Attorneys for the man suspected of killing a Fort Riley soldier outside an Aggieville bar in February 2022 filed a motion in limine Monday to have certain testimony excluded from an upcoming jury trial. Brenda Jordan and Lora Ingels noted at a pretrial conference for Tremelle Montgomery, that interactions Montgomery had with law enforcement before [...]
A Manhattan woman was arrested on Thursday for suspected identity theft. Rachel Ligenfelter (Ling-gin-fil-tr) was arrested at 9:30 am by the Kansas State University Police at the 1400 block of Claflin Road in Manhattan Ligenfelter is charged with two counts of identity theft with intent to defraud someone receiving benefits more than $100,000, single counts [...]
Area firefighters responded to a grass fire near Tuttle Creek Blvd. and Purcell Road, north of Manhattan Friday morning. Firefighters were called out around 9:30 a.m. and contained the fire shortly after 11 a.m. The fire ignited a wooded area west of the highway, leading officials to block a single lane of southbound traffic on [...]
EMS/Ambulance Director David Adams requested the necessary funding for two new full time employees. One is to replace an employee who had resigned their position, the other is to bring the currently in construction EMS station to full staff. Adams explained why they need another EMT. Adams gave a brief timeline as to when the [...]
