Two people received treatment for minor injuries following a car accident Monday afternoon. Ieasha Wallace-Garvin, 24, was driving west in a 2007 Chevy Cavalier on Fort Riley Boulevard when she rear-ended a 2012 Toyota Prius being driven by Benjamin Shubert, 31, at the intersection of Fort Riley and South Manhattan Avenue. Wallace-Garvin and Shubert received treatment
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Mary Mertz was born and raised in Chicago before she married a Kansan and relocated to Riley county. More than 20 years later, Mertz is hard at work in the dirt and advocates for agriculture with Kansas Farm Bureau. Mertz spends her time producing crops and informing the general public on where exactly their food
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Pottawatomie County Commissioners have signed a contract with Bayer Construction for improvements at the Highway 24/Excel Road intersection and other work on Excel Road. A starting date of March 28th is planned. The project will take approximately 210 days to complete. Commission Chair, Dee McKee encourages folks to plan ahead as traffic will be impacted by
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Vacant space in a county-owned building could be used to aid Pawnee Mental Health Services. Robbin Cole, Pawnee’s executive director, pitched the idea to Riley County commissioners Monday morning. Cole said vacant space in the lower level of the Riley County Family and Child Resource Center at 2101 Claflin Rd. could be used to either
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Another Manhattan man has been sentenced to nearly five years with the Kansas Department of Corrections in connection with a series of robberies in the central portion of Manhattan in September of last year. Sean Johnson was sentenced to 59 months for aggravated robbery Monday in Riley County District Court, the same as Jonathon Elliott,
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A Wamego man was arrested at the Riley County Police Department shortly before 5 on Friday evening. Brian Lee Havens, 36, was arrested for failure to appear. His bond was set at $10,000. A Junction City man was arrested Friday afternoon at the Riley County Police Department. 42-year old Kenneth Fleury Jr. was arrested for a probation violation at approximately
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The 38th Annual Aggieville St. Patrick’s Day Parade made its way through Moro Street Saturday afternoon. This year’s parade titled, “The Emerald March on Moro,” followed the annual 10K and 2 mile runs. Click any photo to open the entire gallery in a larger format Staff photos by Brady Bauman
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A Manhattan man was sentenced to 59 months in the Department of Corrections for aggravated robbery charges Friday afternoon in the Riley County District Courthouse. Jonathon Elliot, 20, made a motion of departure through his defense attorney, Brenda Jordan, and hoped for probation, but Judge David Stutzman sided with the state. Elliot was one of
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Riley County Police arrested Delilah Britt, 73, of Manhattan on a warrant while in the 2500 block of Farm Bureau Road on March 10, 2016 at approximately 4:15 PM. Britt was arrested on the offenses of distribution of opiates, opium, narcotics, or stimulants/heroin, endangering a child, and distribution with intent to distribute a controlled substance
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A new sign welcoming all to Manhattan was finished on Thursday afternoon on one of the old bridge piers at the Highway 177 entrance to town. The powder coated letters were attached to the pier in the warm weather on Thursday, with donated work from three different sign companies in Manhattan and a fundraising effort lead by
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