Picture this: a college course dedicated to the evolution of Taylor Swift. Rolling Stone’s music writer, Brittany Spanos, has diligently dedicated her career to covering and studying the pop-culture phenomenon. After pondering the idea to share her kno...
Geary County Schools USD 475 plans to highlight its strategic plan at a rescheduled 2022 State of Education address. Superintendent Dr. Reginald Eggleston joined KMAN’s In Focus Friday, discussing numerous topics including the address. That event is now planned for March 22nd at 7 p.m. at the Junction City High School auditorium after being postponed [...]
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USD 383 is seeking public input on a budget plan for millions of dollars of federal funding coming to the district. The Manhattan-Ogden school district was allocated over $7.25 million by Congress in March of 2021 intended to help elementary and secondary schools respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in various ways. This is the third [...]
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Country music icon Tim McGraw made a guest appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday, Feb. 2, to discuss his role as James Dutton on the hit television series, 1883. The musician turned Hollywood star revealed what it was like to wo...
Fridays are for new music and this week is heavy on debuts. Kassi Ashton dropped her debut single for country radio “Dates In Pickup Trucks” while newcomer Karley Scott Collins shared her major-label debut, “Heavenly.” Cole Swin...
Valentine’s Day is just over a week away and downtown Manhattan invites you to celebrate. Gina Snyder, Downtown Manhattan Incorporated executive director, tells KMAN that several restaurants are running specials during the holiday weekend and on Valentine’s day itself. She says whether it’s dining in or picking up or whether its a full meal, drinks, [...]
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Joshua Hedley calls himself a “singing professor of country & western,” and he earns his title in his new song “Neon Blue.” An up-tempo, twangy tune about a broken heart, “Neon Blue” sounds like a mid-‘90s honky-tonk anthem. “The last bastion of c...
Governor Laura Kelly recently vetoed the congressional redistricting map. The map splits Wyandotte County into two separate congressional districts. It also separates the city of Lawrence from Douglas County and places urban boundaries of Lawrence into the Big First Congressional District. 51st district representative, Ron Highland, voted present on the bill the first time around [...]
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Image by Daniel Reche from Pixabay I may never understand health trends. Apparently, the new, hot exercise that everyone is doing is "retro running." Which is a weird way of saying "I'm going to run backwards and most likely fall on my butt in front of half of the town." In fairness, it's [...]
Maddie & Tae had their winter tour and their album release all planned. By this point in the month, the women thought they would be two-thirds of the way through their 2022 CMT Next Women of Country Tour Presents: All Song No Static Tour dates and...
