The Riley County Law Board has approved a $1.9 million increase to the RCPD budget for 2023, an increase of about 8.5 percent. The increase, approved by a 6 to 1 measure Tuesday, more than doubles the 3.5 percent increase approved for 2022. It includes over $1 million in additional funds aimed at making RCPD [...]
Riley County offices will have no access to internet services Wednesday as Cox Communications performs some planned network maintenance. This will impact internet and email services for all Riley County offices and employees. Phone lines will still be available, but staff will not be able to respond to email messages or access online databases. The [...]
Early Wednesday morning storms are being blamed for a pair of house fires in Manhattan’s Northview area. The Manhattan Fire Department was called out to 2300 Blueberry Drive around 1:30 a.m. and found smoke showing from the home’s attic. Crews were then alerted by the homeowner that smoke was coming from the house next door [...]
Maren Morris appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show and had red wine. As Maren came out to sit on the couch with other guests Howie Mandel, and Iman Vellani (Ms. Marvel), Kelly brought up an old twitter comment from Maren about how she didn’t like red wine. Being the good hostess, Kelly then offered Maren […]
There’s no better way to celebrate the first official day of summer than being on a boat! On June 21st, Old Dominion took the opportunity to commemorate the start of the season with sharing the fan mix version of their “I Was On A Boat That Day” music video. And if you weren’t able to […]
There’s no better time to become a dad than on Father’s Day! Congrats to Luke and Nicole Combs as they welcomed their son Tex Lawrence Combs into the world this past Sunday, June 19th 2022 – which just also happened to be Father’s Day this year. Luke shared the happy news on social media, “Welp, […]
Dr. C. Clyde Jones, who some call Mr. Manhattan, celebrated his 100th birthday on Friday, albeit about six months before his actual 100th. Organizers decorated the Atrium lounge in K-State’s business building with balloons, signs, banners, and a photo montage. Jones served as the first dean of K-State’s College of Business and was instrumental in its [...]
The Manhattan Juneteenth organization wrapped up a week of activities with a day in City Park full of local vendors, speakers, and a unity walk. Mayor Linda Morse read out the Juneteenth proclamation in between stories about people who have recently passed and were pillars in the town’s African-American community. One of those figures being [...]
On June 21st – the official start of the summer season, Lady A dropped their next single – “Summer State Of Mind” Talking about the new track, Lady A’s Hillary Scott, “Our new song, ‘Summer State of Mind,’ is all about the person you love in your life helping you come out of the cold. […]
Congrats goes out to Scotty McCreery and his wife Gabi as the two announced that they are expecting a baby boy this November. Talking to People Scotty says “We’ve gotten to live a lot of life and do some cool things, so seems like now’s a good time to settle down a little and expand […]
