The Eagles 830 Auxiliary & Eagles 830 Aerie present Black Light Bash Bingo Saturday evening at the Eagles at 203 East 10th Street. Proceeds will benefit local charities.
Doors will open at 5 p.m. and bingo begins at 7 p.m. Admission is $25 in advance or $30 at the door. There will be more than $2,000 in cash prizes. Food will be available for purchase.
For more information or to purchase gift certificates contact Melinda Smelley at 785-375-3112.
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Training exercises and an increased social media presence are among the 2019 plans for the Geary County Emergency Management Office.
One event will be a mass casualty exercise involving a bus and a semi-truck at a site to be determined. A highway will not be closed, but Emergency Management Director Garry Berges indicated a parking lot will probably be used. “Because with the amount of traffic on interstate, with the semi’s going back and forth, with the big vehicles, plus a lot of school buses, activity buses are up and down interstate, up and down 77. ”
Berges noted there have been school bus accidents all over the state.
The Emergency Management Office is also planning more of a social media presence in 2019. They want to establish a Facebook page and Twitter feed for Emergency Management and Rural Fire. A new administrative assistant could help with that project.
The annual Little Apple New Years Eve celebration in Manhattan’s Aggieville sector is set for Monday evening and early Tuesday morning.
The celebration will kick off at 10 p.m. with live entertainment and a performance by M31.
You can watch the ball drop and enjoy a fireworks show as you ring in the new year during the celebration.
According to the Geary County Attorney’s office bond has been set at $2 million for 33-year old Dorian Green, Junction City, in a Geary County District Court case. Green was arrested Christmas evening on suspicion of First Degree Murder in the Christmas Day shooting of Jenna Schafer, 31, Junction City. A status check / preliminary hearing has been scheduled in Geary County District Court for Green on January 8th, although it is not unusual after the status check for the initial preliminary hearing setting to be continued to a later date.
Police reported that they responded to 948 grant Avenue Number 154 on Christmas Day where they found Schafer dead from an apparent gunshot wound. Green was arrested several hours later.
There will be no trash / garbage pick-up by the City of Junction City Public Works on Tuesday, New Year’s Day due to the holiday.
Tuesday’s pick-up day will be Wednesday, and the pick-up for each day next will be moved back one day.
In order to ensure your trash is picked up it should be set out by 6 a.m.
Carts should be removed from the curb or alley by the following day of their scheduled pick-up.
A Kansas City, Missouri man, Scott Keady, was arrested on multiple allegations following a high-speed pursuit through Geary County and into Dickinson County on Wednesday afternoon.
The Geary County Sheriff’s Department confirmed no one was injured and there was no damage to the vehicles involved in the pursuit, which involved an average speed of about 100 miles per hour.
The pursuit began near mile marker 301 on I-70 for an alleged stolen license plate and proceeded into Dickinson County near mile marker 275. Authorities later learned the vehicle being pursued, a 1999 Jeep Cherokee, had allegedly been stolen as well.
Keady was taken into custody just before 4 p.m. on suspicion of Fleeing and Eluding, Possession of a Stolen Vehicle, two counts Possession of Stolen Property, Driving while License Revoked, Passing on the Left, Improper Driving on Laned Roadway, No Turn Signal, Speeding, Reckless Driving, Possession of Heroin and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.
By Dewey Terrill
JC Post
Listeners to 107.9 FM / 1420 KJCK heard a new format that went into effect Thursday morning. Emphasizing music from the 1970;s, 80’s and 90’s, there is also local and national news coverage, weather, and the JC Now community affairs and topics programs. Mark Ediger is hosting the morning show with Dewey Terrill providing news updates.
Sports broadcasts including the Junction City Blue Jays and Lady Jays, Kansas State Wildcats, Kansas City Royals and Chiefs plus the Sports Saturday show will continue to air on the stations.
Local news will also be available online at JC Post.
The Geary County Rural Fire Department has acquired a new brush unit fire truck. It is a former 5-ton military truck. The total cost was about $60.000.
The truck, which was primarily built by volunteer firefighters, carries 930 gallons of water. It will be stationed at the Clark’s Creek Rural Fire Station.
BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) — Authorities have released the names of the three teens killed in a weekend crash in suburban Kansas City.
Blue Springs police identified the teens Wednesday as 15-year-old Nicholas Fordham, 16-year-old Darrian Warmack and 16-year-old Kaylen Wright. Warmack was a star athlete and the younger brother of Kansas State University running backs, Dalvin and Michael Warmack.
The crash happened Saturday when the vehicle in which the teens were riding crested a hill, clipped another car and landed in a ravine. One person was injured in the other vehicle.
Dalvin Warmack, who was a senior for the Wildcats last season, expressed thanks on Instagram for the outpouring of support his family had received. He described his younger brother as “special” and already “years beyond” him.
