The Riley County Commissioners heard the amendment to increase the budget for the Keats lagoon, necessary due to the deteriorating septic tanks in the area. Planning Director Amanda Webb updated the new costs. The total project cost is now $16,000. Planning Director Amanda Webb explained that some of this money could be recouped. A representative [...]
Fort Riley has postponed the planned installation wide power outage, the Black Start exercise, initially planned for Wednesday due to extreme high temperatures and heat indices. Black Start will be rescheduled to a later date. Fort Riley will hold its annual full-scale exercise Wednesday as planned but won’t include shutting off power to the installation. [...]
A Topeka man was in Riley County District Court Monday for sentencing after pleading guilty to domestic violence charges. 22-year-old Ronald Saunders received probation from Judge Kendra Lewison after entering a plea agreement and subsequently being found guilty in June on six counts of domestic violence and interference with law enforcement charges. The charges stem [...]
Kansas State University has announced that the open house for the Tracz Family Band Hall has been rescheduled for this Saturday. The come-and-go event will take place from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. The space is the new home for the Pride of Wildcat Land and Classy Cats, located in the northwest corner of the [...]
Roger Sink, the long-time managing partner of accounting firm Sink, Gordon & Associates LLP died over the weekend following a brief illness. He was 87. Sink spent 65 years with the firm, joining full time in 1958, after receiving his Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Kansas State University. As managing partner, Sink worked with [...]
A 31-year-old Sacramento man has entered into a plea agreement with the Riley County Attorney’s Office related to a 2020 case involving attempted murder. Travell Hairston was set to face a jury trial this week in Judge John Bosch’s courtroom on those charges. Details of the plea agreement are unknown at this time. A plea [...]
Manhattan City Commissioners will hear from the Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce and the Convention and Visitors Bureau during Tuesday’s work session. The Chamber and CVB will provide mid-year/second quarter economic development updates as well as their 2024 budget proposals. The Chamber is requesting an economic development allocation of approximately $543,000, the same amount approved [...]
National Day of the Cowboy was celebrated Saturday at the Flint Hills Discovery Center. Assistant Director of Development Stephen Bridenstine says the event drew a large turnout thanks to its many community partners. Those who came out Saturday enjoyed wagon rides, cowboy tic-tac-toe, horseshoes, roping and live entertainment from Miss Rodeo K-State and an old [...]
Riley County Police Officers are working to identify a car responsible for a motor vehicle accident that took place in Manhattan Saturday. Officers responded to a report of an injury crash around 10:30 pm near the intersection of Tuttle Creek Blvd and Casement Road. After arriving on scene, officers located a 2007 Mercury Mariner (mare-in-er) [...]
Riley County Police Officers arrested a man over the weekend at the Casey’s General Store in Manhattan. 26-year-old Joel Antonino Fernandez of Manhattan was arrested around 11:11 pm Sunday at 329 Riley Avenue. Fernandez was arrested on one count of possession of an opiate, opium, narcotic, or certain stimulant as well as one count of [...]
