Manhattan city officials are pumping the brakes on a $13.3 million cemetery improvement project, signaling a desire to scale back spending. During a work session Tuesday, commissioners expressed concerns about the overall cost, particularly for a new Sunrise Cemetery shop and office, estimated at $4.5 million. “We just don’t have the dollars,” said Mayor Karen [...]

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Andrew Von Lintel filed with the Riley County Clerk’s office on Monday. The 42-year-old said he has concerns with the city’s rising debt and a growing annual budget. “It seems like in recent years we’ve been increasing both a lot,” he said. “I noticed that the state of Kansas has a debt limit on Manhattan, [...]

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Housing projects, street maintenance and cemetery improvements will be discussed at Tuesday’s city commission work session. In April, the city opened the first round of workforce housing sales tax funding applications and have since received two applications for potential housing projects, both along Moro Street. The first is from local developers Zach and Michelle Burton, [...]

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City officials this week rejected the nomination of a former mayor and city commissioner to serve on the Manhattan Urban Area Planning Board. Commissioner Peter Oppelt moved Tuesday to pull Linda Morse’s appointment, citing the need to encourage others in the community to serve. “How can we do that if we continue to appoint the [...]

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Three people, including a Manhattan teenager were injured Wednesday in a crash on US 77 in Geary County. The Kansas Highway Patrol says 16-year-old Salman Shinwari was northbound on the highway, just after 2 p.m. near the intersection of West Lyons Creek Road, when his vehicle crossed the center line and struck a southbound passenger [...]

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City commissioners have advanced an ordinance to rezone K-State’s Unger Complex from a business commercial district to high-density residential, following a contentious meeting Tuesday evening with neighboring residents. The decision paves the way for the building to be converted into apartments for middle- to moderate-income people. K-State intends to sell the property at 2323 Anderson [...]

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A critical project to preserve water supply and remove sediment at Tuttle Creek Lake will begin this summer. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials are preparing for a first-of-its-kind water injection dredging project. Operations Project Manager Brian McNulty said the technology has been around for while but has never been used at an inland lake. [...]

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Tariffs could spell trouble for farmers, according to the executive director of the Kansas Farmers Union. “Tariffs are not good,” said Nick Levendofsky, who was a guest Wednesday on Within Reason with Mike Matson on KMAN. “They don’t work. Nobody wins in a trade war.” Levendofsky said current trade policies being implemented by President Donald [...]

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WESTMORELAND — One year after a tornado ripped through Westmoreland, the community is still reeling, but looking toward the future. “Everything’s kind of still in progress right now,” Mayor Waide Purvis said in an interview last week. “I believe, from the last report I got, there was one house that was destroyed that is completely [...]

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Three teenagers have been arrested in connection to a stolen vehicle from an east Manhattan convenience store. According to the Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office, dispatchers received a report shortly before 5 o’clock Monday that an SUV had been stolen from the Casey’s parking lot on East Highway 24. A short time later, dispatchers received a [...]

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