Little Apple Pride held a picnic Saturday in Manhattan’s Blue Earth Plaza. The picnic is a change from the normal, larger pride festivities that would traditionally take place in April. Both the 2020 and 2021 April festivities had to be cancelled due to COVID-19. Kevin Stilley, Treasurer of the Flint Hills Human Rights Project and [...]
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A Lawrence woman in her late 20s is the latest to bring forward additional rape allegations in an ongoing sex abuse case against a former Manhattan restaurant owner. The woman, who was 19 and living in Riley County at the time of the alleged incident, accuses Bob Iacobellis of raping her at his restaurant in [...]
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Tonight, during a broadcast of the Grand Ole Opry, and on one of most hallowed stages in all of country music, Trisha Yearwood declared “love is love.” The moment came, as described on social media by fans in attendance, when Yearwood joined country artist, and open member of the LGBTQIA+ community, Brooke Eden on the... Read more »
USD 475 Geary County Schools students and staff will not be required to wear face masks during the upcoming school year. The district is encouraging those who have not been vaccinated to continue wearing a mask, per Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines. Administrators are acknowledging that the policy could change as the CDC [...]
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The Riley County Police Department is expanding its fingerprinting services for general licensing applications effective July 1. Among the application types involved in this expansion are teaching, daycare, adoption, nursing and insurance. Fingerprinting services will be available Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the RCPD front lobby on a walk-in only basis. [...]
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A 12 person passenger bus, retired by the Flint Hills Area Transportation Agency, was officially donated to Morning Star CRO Friday. Morning Star Inc. CRO serves clients in substance abuse recovery or suffering from severe mental health matters. Elizabeth Stitt is the a driver and peer support specialist with Morning Star. She says having this [...]
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A Manhattan man is jailed in connection to sex crimes involving a child. Brewster Lee Jones is charged with three counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child under the age of 14. Riley County District Court records allege the alleged crimes occurred on three different occasions between November 2018 and December 2020. Jones is [...]
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Finally, back after “Hard To Forget” and “Breaking Up Was Easy In The 90” — two of 2020’s most beloved country anthems — is vocalist Sam Hunt. Via Instagram, he previewed a track tentatively titled “Came ...
After a year of preparations, Flint Hills Christian School broke ground on their new building Thursday which will see an expansion of the school to accommodate growth. The project has raised $5.9 million of its fundraising goal so far, nearly $2.5 million ahead of initial projections. Honorary Chair and school co-founder Dennis Mullin spoke about the project, which [...]
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