Lois Ann Blenn Dickson, 82, of Westmoreland, died Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, in Manhattan.
The family provided some of the following information.
She was born May 6, 1932, in rural Louisville. She was daughter of Charles and Alice Tucker Miller. She married Louis E. Blenn in 1952. He died in 1993. Lois then married Charles V. Dickson, ...
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Big 12 office reprimands K-State
After reviewing the events following Kansas State’s 70-63 win over Kansas on Monday, Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby issued a public reprimand to the school on Wednesday.
Bowlsby was upset with both the contact between fans and visiting players and personnel, as well the chant students orchestrated while the song “ ...
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Texada, Woods lead Wildcats past Jayhawks, 55-48
LAWRENCE — In a span of eight minutes Wednesday night, Kansas State built its largest lead of the game, lost it and then regained it again to finish off a season sweep of the rival Kansas Jayhawks with a 55-48 victory at Allen Fieldhouse.
The Wildcats led by eight points with 9:19 ...
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Board discusses options to relieve school crowding
Manhattan-Ogden school board members brainstormed for possible solutions to a crowding issue in some USD 383 schools at a Wednesday retreat.
Numbers from a Jan. 22 enrollment count show that there are 555 kindergartners enrolled among the district’s nine elementary schools, one of the largest classes, associate superintendent Robert Seymour said Thursday.
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Bridge bids come in below estimate
Bids for a proposed bridge replacement southeast of Manhattan generally came in below estimate during a bid opening at Thursday’s Riley County Commission meeting.
County engineers had anticipated the replacement to cost $274,000, but three of the four bids were below the estimate. Ebert Construction Co., of Wamego, submitted the ...
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KBI investigating death of 24-year-old inmate in Pott County Jail
A 24-year-old Pottawatomie County Jail inmate was pronounced dead in the early morning hours Wednesday.
The inmate, whom the Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office has not identified because officials have not been able to notify family members, was found unresponsive in his cell just after midnight and transported to Wamego ...
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Attorney: There’s still work to be done with civil rights
Eric Seitz went to Mississippi in December 1964 to help rebuild a church that had been destroyed because it was being used as a home base for civil rights activity.
“I was terrified,” he said Wednesday during a lecture sponsored by the Manhattan Alliance for Peace and Justice. “I can still ...
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Housing Authority to relocate residents
Sometime this year, the Manhattan Housing Authority Apartment Towers will be vacated temporarily.
The residents will move out while construction crews come in to rehab the towers with mold remediation, asbestos removal, flooring replacement, thermal moisture protection and changing of fixtures.
JoAnn Sutton, executive director of the housing authority, said ...
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Board to vote on ballot measure
The Manhattan-Ogden school board could decide to ask voters for more taxing authority as early as next week.
At a retreat on Wednesday, board members discussed holding a mail-in ballot election that would allow the district to raise its local option budget taxing authority. Members said they supported voting on ...
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Book sale, ‘Fox on the Fairway,’ improv and more
With snow in the forecast this weekend, book lovers can stock up on reading materials at the Manhattan Library Association’s Annual Book Sale, through Sunday.
The sale features books, CDs, DVDs, audiobooks and LPs that have been donated throughout the year or removed from the library’s collection. All ...
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Indians ready for state tournament
At this time last week, Manhattan head coach Robert Gonzales expected to have a minimum of eight wrestlers make the trip to this weekend’s Class 6A state wrestling tournament in Wichita.
He thought if things went right, the team could take 10.
Instead, 12 of his 14 wrestlers boarded the bus Thursday ...
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Thousands of K-State fans ignored the ‘Wildcat Way’
To the Editor:
I couldn’t help but notice that Nathan Power stated in his apology letter to KU and everyone that he was sorry for “…breaking from the Wildcat way and stepping outside what is acceptable in the spirit of the game.” I went to http://www.k-state.edu/ ...
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Just smile along with ‘Hot Tub Time Machine 2’
Do you remember a 2010 movie called “Hot Tub Time Machine”? If not, you may want to rent a copy of it before you go see its sequel, the recently-released “Hot Tub Time Machine 2.” And even then, some of the new film’s talky explanations may leave you shaking your head.
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Misinformation threatens lesser prairie chickens’ future
To the Editor:
It is depressing to see all the politics surrounding the lesser prairie chicken.
My experience with this species spans more than 35 years, and I have seen most of its remaining Kansas habitat plus much of what little remains in New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado. Thank goodness ...
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Can Mars One accomplish its mission?
Readers might remember earlier this month a splash of publicity about manned missions to Mars — one-way missions.
That publicity involved the Mars One Project, which plans to establish a permanent mission on the Red Planet in 2024, and had narrowed its list of potential pioneers to 100. That’s 50 women and 50 men — 39 ...
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Do or die for MHS girls against Seaman
Grant Guggisberg
gguggisberg@themercury.com
There’s not much mystery left for the Manhattan High girls’ basketball team.
The Indians will be the No. 1 seed at next week’s sub-state tournament and will almost certainly host Wichita Southeast on Thursday and Wichita North two days later with the opportunity to ...
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Sheriff identifies inmate who died in Pott County Jail
The Pottawatomie County Sheriff on Thursday identified the inmate who was found unresponsive in his cell on Wednesday.
Pottawatomie County Sheriff Greg Riat said the inmate was 25-year-old Andrew J. Brown, of Wamego. Riat originally reported Brown was 24, but corrected himself in a later statement. Pottawatomie County Jail records confirmed ...
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USD 383 candidates discuss school crowding, budget
The five candidates running for a seat on the Manhattan-Ogden school board told potential voters how they felt about everything from the size of classrooms to budgets to their biggest regrets at a forum on Thursday.
Our Manhattan, a political action action committee that describes itself as nonpartisan, hosted the ...
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Riley County pulls away for 37-31 victory
RILEY — The Riley County girls’ basketball team, again playing without leading scorer and rebounder Alyssa Kulp due to sickness, didn’t start pretty, but found a groove in the second half to beat St. Marys, 37-31, Thursday night in its regular-season finale.
Sophomore Bethany Crubel led the Falcons with 12 points, ...
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Roundtable aims to bring local food to restaurants
Offering local fare is becoming increasingly appealing for restaurants in Kansas, but sometimes it can be a challenge to connect with local producers.
A roundtable discussion on Thursday at the From the Land of Kansas’ annual meeting at the Hilton Garden Inn aimed to address some of the issues between ...
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