Facing a severe blood shortage after storms and disasters around the nation, the American Red Cross has issued a call for donations of all blood types — especially from people with blood types O positive and negative. As a result, local Red Cross branches are advertising multiple blood drives being held around the Manhattan area [...]

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Fort Riley will be honoring former Italian and German prisoners of war with a wreath-laying ceremony on Thursday at Fort Riley. Guest speakers for the morning will be Italian Army Major Stefano Catania and German Army Colonel Carsten Doding, both currently stationed at Fort Leavenworth. Fort Riley housed 4500 Italian and German POWs during World War II — one of 600 [...]

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The latest updates on plans for two planned recreation centers and the future of City Park were presented at the Manhattan City Commission’s work session in City Hall Tuesday. City Park Master Plan The plan lays out the long-term vision for improvements and projects around the park. The last version of the plan was adopted [...]

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Students at 42 Kansas schools including a couple in our region will have better access to breakfast thanks to more than $142,000 in grants through the Kansas State Department of Education to help bolster breakfast programs. Area grant amounts included: Wabaunsee High School: $3,000 Washington Elementary in Junction City: $1,200 The funding is said to [...]

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A Manhattan woman was arrested Tuesday on a Pottawatomie County warrant for a number of charges involving forgery and theft. The Riley County Police Department says 28-year-old Sara Marie Boatman is jailed on three charges of making false writing, five counts of forgery and eight counts of theft of property or services of less than [...]

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