Riley County Police are investigating after a body was found outside of the Apartment Towers Wednesday afternoon. According to a press release from RCPD, officers responded around 3 p.m. Wednesday to 300 N. 5th St. after the body of Rick Stradtner, 45, was found on the roof of the first floor. Stradtner lived on the [...]
Pottawatomie County officials on Wednesday made the decision to immediately close Louisville Road between Rockenham and Emile Road, due to the deteriorating bridge deck over Rock Creek. The detour for eastbound traffic will be south on Rockenham to Hanson Road, then north on Jenkins to Louisville Road. The detour for westbound traffic will be south [...]
After years of collaboration between the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate, a ribbon cutting and dedication ceremony was held Wednesday at the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility. The ceremony lasted close to two hours on the west lawn of the facility and included a panel conversation moderated [...]
Riley County Police filed a report for aggravated battery, aggravated assault and criminal damage to property Tuesday night at Northeast Community Park. Two men, aged 19 and 20, told police their vehicle was surrounded by a group of people in three cars at the park, just before 10 p.m., placing them in fear. A man [...]
A Manhattan man sustained injuries Tuesday afternoon after being struck by a car while riding his bicycle. The injury crash occurred near the intersection of North Seth Child Road and Kimball Ave. around 2:30 p.m. According to RCPD, 20-year-old Alexa Bell was northbound on the exit ramp from North Seth Child to Kimball when the [...]
Former Manhattan High School Principal Greg Hoyt has filed for a seat on the Manhattan-Ogden School Board. Hoyt retired as principal in 2019, after six years at MHS and 31 years total working in the district, both as a teacher and as principal also at Eisenhower Middle School. In an emailed statement to KMAN, Hoyt [...]
Manhattan City Commissioners on Tuesday were presented a six-year review of street maintenance and Safe Routes to Schools projects. Public Works Director Rob Ott says the city has a current Pavement Condition Index (PCI) of about 70, meaning most of the city’s paved arterials are at a fair to satisfactory level. But questions remain over whether the [...]
Pottawatomie County Treasurer Lisa Wright informed commissioners Monday of a budget error involving two local townships. Wright says a member of one of the two impacted township boards informed her office that the money being distributed to them from the county was going into the wrong funds. “We saw that the levies had been flopped [...]
Work toward a new Riley County Comprehensive Plan is moving along. During Monday’s commission meeting, Planning Director Amanda Webb noted she had planned on having a committee together to work through a plan by late May or early June. However, she says delays, such as not having a readily-available consultant just yet to not having a [...]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is hosting a dedication ceremony and ribbon cutting for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility Wednesday morning. NBAF leadership, along with a federal delegation will provide remarks during the event, tentatively scheduled to begin around 10:30 a.m. The event is not open to the public. U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran spoke [...]
