Fort Riley will be hosting military retirees of all services, and their spouses, widows or widower at Retiree Appreciation Day. Fort Riley Retirement Services Officer Kevin Walker explains the purpose of this event. Many veterans service organizations will also be on available for more information. Command Sergeant Major (retired) Ricardo Guiterrez speaks about who the [...]

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New Community Health Educator Jennifer Ebert presented to the Riley County Commission for the first time on Thursday. Ebert is presently working through goals she set when accepting the position working for the Riley County Health Department. Some of these include communicating with every school district in the wildcat region, which also includes Geary and [...]

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Riley County Police arrested a 19-year-old Manhattan man Wednesday on a past Pottawatomie County warrant. Phillip Ikya was arrested on two misdemeanor counts of lewd and lascivious behavior. According to an online criminal complaint, the charges stem from an Aug. 22 incident where Ikya allegedly exposed himself to two males who were at least 16 [...]

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A Junction City woman was injured Wednesday in a hit-and-run crash on Interstate 70 in Geary County. The Kansas Highway Patrol says two vehicles were eastbound on I-70 just after 5 p.m, Wednesday. As one vehicle came to a sudden stop, the second moved in front and was then hit from behind, pushing the second [...]

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The USD 383 Manhattan-Ogden School Board went over their final report on student counts at their bimonthly meeting on Wednesday. USD 383 Assistant Superintendent Nathan Downs delivered the report saying that K-12 has seen an increase in students from the previous school year. The school district has seen about a 0.7% increase in students from [...]

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Fort Riley welcomed back the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team with an uncasing ceremony Wednesday. Casing is the packing of military colors and uncasing is the unpacking for transportation. The 1st Combat Aviation Brigade Combat Team is deploying to Europe. Colonel Chad Corrigan, 1st Combat Aviation Brigade Commander spoke about departing. Corrigan adds they have [...]

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Dr. John Mather, Nobel Laureate in Physics and Senior Project Scientist for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), gave a presentation to Kansas State University students on Tuesday. Dr. Mather discussed the historical background of telescopes and cosmology, and the work of JWST in studying distant objects to explore the origins of the universe. Mather [...]

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A local district magistrate judge was injured Tuesday evening in a crash in northern Riley County. According to the Riley County Police Department, officers were called out just after 5:30 p.m. for a single vehicle crash in the 6000 block of Tuttle Creek Blvd. Police say 74-year-old William Malcolm, of Clay Center, was injured after [...]

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The Riley County Police Department hosted its annual Community Night Out Tuesday at City Park. RCPD staff served up barbecue pulled pork sandwiches. RCPD Director Brian Peete explains the purpose of the community event. The evening included demonstrations from various law enforcement staff. RCPD Patrol Officer/Bomb Tech Jarrod Sheldon showed a robot. The event preceded [...]

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The Manhattan-Ogden School Board will hear an update Wednesday on the district’s student enrollment data for the fall. Superintendent Eric Reid will present the annual fall enrollment report, which accounts for the student population, based on counts from Sept. 20. Preliminary data shared in August noted about a 1.6% increase in enrollment for the fall, [...]

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