The Pottawatomie County Commission has approved the 2022 wage plans that will see county employees receiving a 3 percent raise. It accounts for the 1.6 percent cost of living adjustment approved in the budget in August, plus an additional 1.4 percent increase approved recently by commissioners through American Rescue Plan Act funds. Director of Human [...]

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Riley County commissioners have adopted new land development regulations and driveway standards for the county. These new regulations and standards will repeal and replace the current ones on Jan 1. Planning Director Amanda Smeller says there are some regulations that are carrying over. Public hearings were held with the planning board to get recommendations for [...]

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A pair of funds have been set up to help cover funeral expenses for two Manhattan teenagers killed over the weekend in an early Sunday morning car crash. Eisenhower Middle School students , Gaysha Alfred and Kenni Cantu, both 14, died in the crash along K-18 at Scenic Drive. Three others were injured, including one [...]

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As they continue to envision the future, Kansas State University has created an economic prosperity plan. Richard Myers, K-State president, says the Kansas Board of Regents, as part of renewing their vision, ask the universities to put these plans together based on what the university brings to their communities. Myers says its important that those [...]

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The Riley County Law Board plans to hold a special meeting next week to discuss a plan to move forward on hiring the next director of the Riley County Police Department. Riley County Commissioner and Law Board member John Ford tells KMAN that’s partially due to a lack of planning. “We haven’t really had time [...]

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The Crisis Center, Inc. in the final phase of its fundraising campaign to support the construction and furnishing of a new safe shelter to service survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. The service organization, founded in 1979 and incorporated in ’81, supports victims in Riley, Pottawatomie, Geary, Clay and Marshall Counties as well as [...]

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