The Regional Collective Training Capability / Total Army Support report shows the number of off-post units that have trained at Fort Riley.

The post has been the site for many Army Reservists and National Guard units training this summer.

As of July 31  22,592 troops had trained at the installation. Another 2,843 are scheduled between now and September 16.  The total training number for fiscal year 16 at Fort Riley is 25,795.

The Geary County Sheriff’s Department has reported that Deputies responded to US 77 and mile marker 168 for a single vehicle accident on Friday.

Todd Collette, Wamego, was northbound on US 77 when he swerved to miss a deer, causing him to lose control of his 2004 Pontiac passenger vehicle and slid off the roadway, causing minor damage. There were no injuries reported.

In a second case Friday Deputies responded to 8300 Old Stage Road for a single vehicle accident. Karina Grestly was southbound on Old Stage Road in her Chrysler passenger vehicle when she lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a ditch. No injuries were reported.

Advance voting for the Aug. 2 primary election ends today ( Monday ) at noon.

You can cast an advance ballot in the County Election Office ( county clerk’s office ).

On Tuesday, primary election day, the polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas voters will decide whether they want to alter the balance of power in the Legislature and replace two Republican congressmen in Tuesday’s primary election.

The GOP and the Democratic Party are picking their nominees for the U.S. Senate, congressional seats, the Kansas Senate, the Kansas House and hundreds of county offices.

Moderate Republicans are hoping to knock off conservative legislators in GOP contests, and U.S. Rep. Tim Huelskamp is facing a tough challenge from Roger Marshall, a Great Bend obstetrician, in the big 1st Congressional District of western and central Kansas.

What to know about the election:

KEY RACES

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran is seeking a second, six-year term and is expected to win easily over a largely unknown opponent, D.J. Smith, of Osawatomie, in the GOP primary.

U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder also is expected to score a big victory over his Republican primary opponent, retired Army officer Greg Goode, of Louisburg, in the Kansas City-area 3rd District.

The biggest race is Huelskamp’s contest against Marshall. The incumbent is a tea party favorite who first won the seat in 2010, but his conflicts with GOP leaders turned agriculture and business groups against him.

More than two dozen Republican legislators, most of them conservative allies of GOP Gov. Sam Brownback, face primary challengers. Three House Democrats also do, in relatively safe Democratic districts.

POLLING HOURS

All polling places across the state must open at 7 a.m., though local election officials have the authority to allow voting to begin at 6 a.m.

Polling closes at 7 p.m. local time. Four counties on the state’s border with Colorado — Greeley, Hamilton, Sherman and Wallace — are on Mountain time, an hour earlier than the rest of the state.

WHO CAN VOTE

Kansas recognizes only three political parties, Republican, Democratic and Libertarian. Libertarians do not appear on the primary ballot because they choose their candidates at a state convention.

People who affiliate with one party when they register to vote can’t vote in another party’s primary. But voters who register as unaffiliated can declare an affiliation at the polls and vote in a Republican or Democratic primary.

Also, under a 2011 state law, voters must show a photo ID at the polls.

PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP

Election officials will be required to count potentially thousands of votes in legislative and local races even though the people casting them didn’t comply with a 2013 state law requiring them to document their U.S. citizenship when registering.

A federal judge ruled in May that people who registered at motor vehicle offices without providing proof of their citizenship still had the right to cast ballots in federal races under federal law.

The federal judge’s ruling prompted Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a Republican who has championed the proof-of-citizenship law, to direct county election officials to set their ballots aside for later review and count only their votes in federal races.

But the American Civil Liberties Union filed a state-court lawsuit challenging Kobach’s rule, and a Shawnee County District Court judge ruled Friday that all votes on such ballots must be counted. Ahead of Tuesday’s primary, about 17,600 people registered at motor vehicle offices without providing proof of their U.S. citizenship.

TURNOUT

Kansas has about 1.7 million registered voters, and turnout in primaries in presidential-election years has averaged about 28 percent since 1996.

But turnout has been lower in more recent years, and was 23 percent in 2012.

A 28 percent turnout would bring about 480,000 voters to the polls.

James Craig, “JT” a 2005 Junction City High School graduate, has earned his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. He attended the University of Kansas for his undergrate studies.

Craig is currently in Omaha, Nebraska undertaking a post-doctorate year of clinical practice at Boys Town. He is married to Dr. Sarah Bujarski Craig, and has a three-month old daughter, Charlotte.

James Craig is the son of Dr. Thomas Craig, an Internal Medicine physician at Geary Community Hospital.

A school bus full of school supplies for low income children was the end result of the Stuff the Bus Collection on Saturday in the parking lot of Walmart on East Chestnut Street.

United Way Executive Director Nicole Mader said it was an “amazing collection again.”

Mader said at the end of the collection period that the bus was overstuffed. “We had the seats full, we have the aisles full. It was a blessing day.’ It was the second consecutive successful Saturday for the Stuff the Bus project.

Mader noted that on the first Saturday of Stuff the Bus one week ago for example, more than 1,000 boxes of crayons were donated and more than 200 style notebooks. She expects the amount donated yesterday ( Saturday ) to be even better.

The school supplies will be seperated and counted out, and then delivered to the schools on August 10-11. Mader added they want the supplies to be available to the students on the first day of school, August 15.

On Monday, August 1st around noon, ANR Pipeline will be conducting a blow down on one of the main line that goes through Geary County.

Two valves will be opened to release the pressure on the line.

The valves are located on US-77 Highway about 4 miles south of Junction City, wast about 1/2 mile in a field; and on K-177 north of I-70 about 1 mile on the east side of the roadway.

People in the area will hear a very loud high pitch noise. Pipeline personnel will be in the area monitoring the release.

Once the blowdown is complete, crews will be replacing pipe between the valves; there will be no danger to the public during this controlled blow down.

JC Post has confirmed with Junction City police dispatch that an accident occurred in the McFarland Road – U.S. 77 Highway area Friday afternoon.

Only a few details are available at this time, but dispatch confirmed one person was transported to Geary Community Hospital. The accident was reported to authorities at approximately 3:15 p.m.