The Geary County Sheriff’s Department reported that Deputies responded to mile marker 96 on K-177 at 12:39 a.m. Monday for a single vehicle injury accident.
Heather Emberry, Manhattan, was operating a Chevrolet Traverse when she swerved to miss a deer. The vehicle entered a ditch, striking a rock wall. Non-life threatening injuries were reported as a result of the accident.
Increased security meant traffic backups at the entrance gates to Fort Riley Monday.
Geary County Sheriff Tony Wolf explained it caused problems on Interstate 70.
“As with any time Fort Riley restricts any movement in and out of those gates it will cause a problem. I hope that in the next few days or week once they get this system organized and better attuned as to what they’re going to do that the traffic will flow much better. In the next few days yeah, you might want to start out a little bit early to go to work if you work on Fort Riley.”
There were also traffic backups at other entrances onto post Monday.
According to the National Weather Service, the weather will be nice today with sunny skies and afternoon temperatures around 70 degrees. Unfortunately the weather turns stormy for Wednesday through Saturday night. Periods
of heavy rain are expected Wednesday night into Thursday morning when some locations could pick up around an inch of rain. There are also chances for thunderstorms Friday through Saturday night. Some of these storms could be severe Saturday and Saturday night.
Today: Sunny. Highs around 70. Northwest winds up to 5 mph shifting to the south 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight: Mostly clear. Lows around 48. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph.
Wednesday: Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 70. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
Wednesday Night: Showers and isolated thunderstorms. Locally heavy rainfall possible. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
Thursday: Mostly cloudy with showers likely and slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
Thursday Night: Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of thunderstorms. Lows around 60.
Friday And Friday Night: Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the lower 60s.
Saturday: Thunderstorms likely. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s.
Sunday: Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s.
Sunday Night And Monday: Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Highs in the lower 70s.
The Junction City Education Association held it’s annual spring banquet Monday night recognizing this years retiree’s, including one retiree who has been with the Geary USD 475 for half of a century.
Margaret Kilpatrick has been teaching for 54 years, all but four of those years have been with Geary USD 475. During her 50 years with the school district she has been a member of the JCEA, and even served as President of the JCEA for a couple of years. At the end of the school year, which is just over a week away, Kilpatrick will be saying goodbye to her class room and the district for the last time as she is retiring from teaching.
“I see the end, but I have enjoyed every step of the way,” Kilpatrick told the JCEA Spring Banquet audience.
She later told JCPost.com that she will miss her students the most.
“It’s amazing, I’ve met so many students and that will be one thing that I will miss, the students that I have worked with. I see so many of them and they will say ‘Hi Miss. Kilpatrick, his Miss. Kilpatrick,’ and I love it. I will miss the students that I work with.”
Kilpatrick started out in 1964 at Westwood School and now teaches at Junction City Middle School.
Junction City, KS – The Boys & Girls Club of Geary County will resume its Summer Camp program on June 1st. After consulting with our community partners it was determined that there were an inadequate number programs in place to meet the needs of students in the summer. The USD 475 Board of Education and Administration determined it was necessary to resume the 2015 Summer Camp program to meet the needs of families. USD 475 is happy to share that there will be a program this summer.
The summer program hours are:
The program will be located at:
Hauge Center
1833 Elmdale Ave
Junction City, KS
Hugh Davis
Executive Director of Communications – USD 475
Manhattan Regional Airport’s two phase terminal expansion project was expected to be completed by this summer, but at this point they are still wrapping up phase one of the project.
Phase one of the project was expected to be completed by August of last year but the project fell 177 days behind 
schedule. Peter Van Kuren, outgoing Airport Director, updated the Airport Advisory Board Monday that officials are still working with the contractor to determine what penalties need to be applied due to the delay. He noted. “177 days they were over, 71 days they feel they can defend and attribute it to weather. We withheld $150,000 from one of their pay applications. We provided $71,000 back, so approximately $79,000 is still being withheld,” said Van Kuren.
Van Kuren is expecting that the City of Manhattan and the contractor will come to an agreement soon and a pre-construction meeting for phase two will take place soon. When asked when construction of phase two could begin Van Kuren said,”I would expect to see construction activity in June.”
Phase one of the project added 20,000 sq. ft. to the terminal, and phase two is expected to add an additional 20,000 sq. ft..
Commencement on the Kansas State University campus in Manhattan is Friday and Saturday.
The class of 2015 will be the 148th to graduate from K-State since the first class graduated in 1867.
Ceremonies begin Friday ( May 15 ) with commencement for the Graduate School at 1 
p.m. in Bramlage Coliseum. Nancy Kassebaum Baker, a native Kansan and former U.S. Senator for nearly two decades will be the commencement speaker and receive an honorary doctorate from Kansas State University, the 129th person to receive the honor.
Commencement for the College of Veterinary Medicine will be at 3:30 p.m. Friday in McCain Auditorium. Dan Thomson, Jones professor of production medicine and epidemiology and director of the Beef Cattle Institute, will deliver the commencement address.
Commencement activities on Saturday, May 16 will range from the College of Arts and Sciences at 8:30 a.m. in Bramlage Coliseum to the College of Engineering at 6:30 p.m. in Bramlage Coliseum.
Other ceremonies include the College of Architecture, Planning & Design at 10 a.m. in McCain Auditorium, and in Bramlage Coliseum the College of Education, 11 a.m., College of Business Administration, 12:30 p.m. , College of Agriculture, 2:30 p.m., and the College of Human Ecology at 4:30 p.m.
Handicapped accessible doors will be installed at the Geary County Office Building front entrance.
County Commissioner Larry Hicks said the governing body was updated by Public Works Administrator Dennis Cox that the doors will be installed in the next week. “There have been some expressions by people who are disabled that it’s been a little difficult to enter that side of the building.”
Hicks noted the doors are expected to arrive over the course of the next week. “Which will be a major plus for those who are disabled.”
Freedom Park in Geary County overlooking I-70 and the Marshall Army Airfield is closed.
Geary County Sheriff Tony Wolf confirmed at Fort Riley’s request the park area that 
includes the large atomic cannon atop the hill overlooking the airfield is no longer open to the public.
“Late last week I received a phone call from Fort Riley. Part of their security measures that they’re taking out there on Fort Riley they asked if we could close down Freedom Park out here on I-70 at the 301 – Exit off I-70,. We got the park shut down. There is no vehicles allowed in the parking lot, and no foot traffic up to the top of the hill for an undetermined amount of time.”
Geary County Commissioner Larry Hicks says the members of the governing body were also informed that Freedom Park would be closed. Commissioner Florence Whitebread noted it was a request made by the federal government, the County needs to abide by it. “Since it’s right next door to the facility it’s very important that we follow their directions.”
There will be numerous scheduled events in Junction City this upcoming weekend.
Friday and Saturday the 1000 block of Grant Avenue will be the location for the annual Mudd Bogg which brings in drivers from across Kansas and some other states. This event is the biggest fundraisr for Sundown Salute, as well. This will be the first year it will be scheduled for two days.
Coordinator Eric Boland said gates will open at 4 p.m. with competition at 7:30 p.m. and Friday at 8 a.m. with competition at 1 p.m.
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Run for the Wall arrives in Junction City on Sunday.
Connie Hall, Convention and Visitor’s Bureau Director, expects the riders to arrive at approximately 4:15 to 4:30 p.m. for a memorial service in Heritage Park at the Kansas State Vietnam Veterans Memorial. They will stay in Junction City overnight before departing on Monday.
The riders make Junction City an annual stopping point on their cross country ride from California across the nation to The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.
Hall estimated there will be 350 to 400 riders visiting Junction City.
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Commencement for Junction City High School is scheduled at 6 p.m. Sunday at Al Simpler Stadium. There will be a Baccalaureate Ceremony at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Settles Auditorium at JCHS.
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Commencement for Saint Xavier High School is also scheduled Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Saint Xavier Catholic Church.