According to the National Weather Service of Topeka, an area of showers and isolated thunderstorms are expected to dissipate by late morning across north central and northeast Kansas. It will be another windy day with winds of 15 to 25 mph with gusts of 35 to 40 mph in the afternoon.
Chances for thunderstorms increase Thursday afternoon through Friday night when a cold front will move through the area. Some of the storms could be severe with damaging winds and hail the main hazards. Locally heavy rainfall is also possible which may lead to flooding.
Cooler temperatures and dry weather is expected for the weekend with highs in the 70s and lows in the 50s.
Today: Breezy. Mostly sunny. Slight chance of showers and isolated thunderstorms in the morning. Highs around 90. South winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts of 30 to 35 mph. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
Tonight: Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 15 to 20 mph.
Thursday: Mostly sunny. Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph.
Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
Friday: Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph shifting to the west 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
Friday Night: Cooler. Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
Saturday: Cooler. Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
Saturday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
Sunday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
Sunday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
Monday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
Monday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
MANHATTAN- Law enforcement authorities in Riley County have made another arrest in connection with a string of recent aggravated robberies that led to a nearly four-hour lockdown at Kansas State University on September 4.
Just before 3:30 a.m., the Riley County Police reported they were searching for a suspect considered ‘armed and dangerous’ in the area of Manhattan Area Technical College.
The suspect was scene running through backyards and jumping fences to avoid police.
Police caught the suspect just after 4:30 a.m.
Additional details on the arrest are expected to be released later Wednesday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Olive Garden is bringing back its “Pasta Pass” that lets people gorge on as much pasta as they want for seven weeks. And friends and family are welcome to pig out too this year.
The restaurant chain says it will sell 1,000 of the $100 Pasta Passes starting Thursday at 2 p.m. EDT on its website. It will also sell 1,000 family Pasta Passes, which will cost $300 and let cardholders bring up to three guests.
The passes sold out in 45 minutes last year and generated considerable publicity for Olive Garden, which is trying to modernize its image.
Late night talk show host David Letterman even devoted a top 10 list to the Pasta Pass, saying that one of its clauses is that a person’s dignity is not refundable.
Last Thursday was the deadline to submit a sealed bid on 25 land bank lots in Junction City, and only two bids were received on two of those lots.
On Tuesday the Land Bank Board of Trustee’s accepted the proposal to purchase the two lots for $6,180 to New Horizons Home LLC of Manhattan. The two lots are side-by-side lots in the Sutter Highlands Addition north of K-18 Highway and west of U.S. 77 and Spring Valley Road.
Dr. Pat Landes, Trustee and a member of the Land Bank Ad Hoc Committee explained that he thought the sale of the two lots was a start.
“We just got the neighborhood Revitalization Plan approved for it from three different entities, the City, County and the school district. We’re just starting to get the word out now about it, the lots that are available,” explained Landes.
He went on to explain that he does know of developers out there that are interested in purchasing specific lots that are included in the land bank, but were not included in this particular sale.
Moving forward Landes said that he hopes that they look into better ways of marketing the lots to potential developers.
An Ad Hoc meeting is expected to be scheduled in the near future to further go over the results of the sale and determine what steps to take next with the remaining 23 lots.
The Junction City Commission approved a special use permit to allow a small animal veterinary clinic to be built off Spring Valley Road and Strauss Boulevard.
Dr. Theresa McCreath talking to the Metropolitan Planning Commission on August 13th
Dr. Theresa McCreath is planning on opening the clinic and explained that she will offer all the normal services you would expect from a small animal clinic,”vaccines, wellness care, surgery. Whether that be elective surgery, soft tissue, other types of surgery.”
It will be strictly small animal care at the hospital, but she explained that she is a mixed animal practitioner and as time allows she will still conduct house and farm calls.
McCreath hopes that construction can begin by the end of October early November and be complete by the end of February.
The Geary County Republican Party will hold a fundraiser, a Grassroots Country Barbecue, with homemade ice cream, Sunday evening ( Sept. 20 ) from 5-7 p.m at the Black Horse Hitch Event Center at Munson Angus Farms at 4820 Liberty Hall Road.
Barbara Craft of Junction City notified JC Post that the guest speaker will be Kansas Republican Party Chairman Kelly Arnold.
Tickets are also being sold for $10 for a raffle that will include cash prizes of $500, $250, $150, and $100.
Meal tickets will be $5 for the dinner. Raffle and dinner tickets are still available. You can get them by calling Rick or Kimberly Roberts at 785-209-1009 or 785-223-3308.
The drawing for the raffle will be held during the 5-7 p.m. time frame. You do not need to be present to win.
How will bills be paid for the proposed new sports complex project?
That was a topic of discussion at the Geary County CVB board meeting on Tuesday.
There is a one-cent transient guest tax in effect in Geary County to help fund the project.
Connie Hall, CVB Director, said, “But we haven’t really sit down and come to what is the procedure for presentation of any bills to be paid. How does that go?
Hall said CVB and Chamber of Commerce officials will meet later this week to work out that procedure. At this point there are no bills for the sports complex, since the project is still a work in progress.
MANHATTAN — Kansas State University fans will have something extra to cheer about at the Wildcat football game Saturday, Sept. 19, at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.
“There are literally thousands of students, staff, directors and administrators who share in this honor,” said Frank Tracz, director of bands at Kansas State University. “This is simply recognition and validation for the ‘K-State Way,’ and I could not be any more proud of these kids and what they stand for.”
It’s Sudler Day at the stadium with The Pride of Wildcat Land, the Kansas State University Marching Band, being honored with the 2015 Sudler Trophy from the John Philip Sousa Foundation. At a halftime ceremony, the band will receive the trophy, which is presented every two years to a college or university marching band that has demonstrated the highest of musical standards and innovative marching routines and ideas, and that has made important contributions to the advancement of the performance standards of college marching bands over a number of years.
The presentation ceremony will include Louis and Virginia Sudler, whose grant to the John Philip Sousa Foundation made the trophy possible, as well as representatives from the university and the College of Arts & Sciences’ School of Music, Theatre, and Dance. It’s also Band Day and Alumni Band Day at the stadium, so joining the Kansas State University Marching Band on the field for the presentation will be 1,250 high school band members and 250 alumni members of the university’s marching band.
The Sudler Trophy was designed by artist Ed Blackwell and executed by Dieges and Clust, who also produce the Heisman Trophy. Consisting of a bronze drum major astride a football stadium and mounted on a marble base, the trophy stands 22.5 inches high.
Under direction of Tracz and Don Linn, assistant director of bands, Kansas State University’s 400-plus member marching band includes musicians, twirlers, color guard and Classy Cats dance squad. The band performs at home football games, at bowl games, pep rallies and at special events throughout the fall, including the university’s annual Homecoming Parade, Week of Welcome Pep Rally and more.
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INCLUDING THE CITIES OF…WASHINGTON…CLAY CENTER…ABILENE…
JUNCTION CITY…COUNCIL GROVE…EMPORIA
1132 AM CDT TUE SEP 15 2015
…WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING…
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A WIND
ADVISORY…WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING.
* TIMING…STRONGEST WINDS EXPECTED DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS.
* WINDS…SOUTH 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH.
* IMPACTS…THE STRONG SOUTH WINDS WILL MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT
ON EAST AND WEST ORIENTED ROADWAYS…ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH
PROFILE VEHICLES. SECURE LAWN FURNITURE AND TRASH CANS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH ARE
EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT…ESPECIALLY
FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION.
The drivers in a non-injury accident on Monday afternoon on U.S. Highway 77 have been identified by the Geary County Sheriff’s Department.
The S-O said James Schmidt, Junction City, was driving a Kenworth semi north on U.S. 77 when Michael Gannon, Junction City, was driving a Chrysler 200 and tried to pass Schmidt who was turning into a harvest field. Gannon struck the semi in the left side of the lower cab.
Again….there were no injuries.
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There was a car – grain truck collision Monday afternoon on U.S. 77 just south of Old Milford Road.
Geary County Sheriff Tony Wolf confirmed there were no injuries.
“It appears that one of the Kramer Brothers trucks was going out to the field to get another load of corn, and there was another individual that was following along behind, that got impatient, and tried to pass the vehicle in a no passing zone as it was turning, and hit the side of the semi.”
The call came in to law enforcement authorities on the accident at 1:33 p.m.
The identifies of those involved in the accident are not yet known.
another windy day with winds of 15 to 25 mph with gusts of 35 to 40 mph in the afternoon.
