Sara Marie Hallowell
Sara Marie Hallowell, 86, of St. Joseph died Thursday at Heartland Regional Medical Center. ...
View ArticleHogan pans Rights Board
A City Commission candidate endorsed last week by a group advocating for inclusion of sexual orientation in the city’s human rights ordinance issued a statement Friday distancing himself from some of...
View ArticleCity Commission candidates’ views are in stark contrast as election looms
Dave Schafer is a locally known conservative and Gary Stith is a locally known liberal. While they disagree on their preferred outcome of Tuesday’s city election, they are in full agreement that the...
View ArticleAnnual Lions Club hunt in City Park is a tradition for area kids
Out of the 2,500 plastic eggs at City Park, Andrick Kelley, 2, found the one for him Saturday morning. It was Andrick’s first Easter egg hunt, but he knew what to do. He strolled over to grab the egg...
View ArticlePope Francis, a humble man, has huge challenge ahead
To the Editor: What irony that the new pope chose the name of a sweet, humble, nonmaterialistic man who certainly would not have spent time hanging around the Vatican. St. Francis grew up in wealth but...
View ArticleSequester cuts need not inflict much pain on citizens
To the Editor: Listening to the radio or watching TV, we all know that sequestration is upon us. We would hope that our government would react the way we citizens would when having to scale back from...
View ArticleDo you need a reason to vote?
It’s the custom on the Monday before an election for The Mercury to urge citizens to vote — and to cast informed ballots on Tuesday. Sometimes we appeal to residents’ sense of citizenship or ask lazy...
View ArticleMHS tennis takes 3rd at doubles tournament
Manhattan High boys’ tennis coach Chuck Kipp is still figuring out which of his varsity players will make the best doubles teams. Saturday’s doubles-only tournament in Salina provided him the chance to...
View ArticleMHS softball splits with Topeka
The Manhattan High softball team opened the 2013 season with a split at Topeka High on Friday, winning the first game 8-7 in eight innings and losing the second 6-5 in a pair of back-and-forth games....
View ArticleMHS golfers loaded with young talent
When the Manhattan High boys’ golf team takes to the course today to start its season, it will have what many teams envy — young talent. In addition to one senior, last year’s Manhattan High boys’ golf...
View ArticleDad’s influence evident in her professional focus
Like father, like daughter. Stephanie Pierce’s dad went to K-State, so she did as well. He graduated from the business school, and she followed in his footsteps. He’s a business owner, so naturally...
View ArticleHow did this one-man movie machine fail his audience?
I’ve been to see a lot of Tyler Perry’s baggy pants comedies and race-specific melodramas. But before I saw his latest, “Temptation,” I’d never known his audience to dismiss one of his movie stories...
View ArticleAlma woman gets two years probation
An Alma woman has been sentenced to two years federal probation and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine for mortgage fraud U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said Linda Kay Miller, 51, of Alma, pleaded guilty to one...
View ArticleHarriet E. Maskil
Harriet E. Maskil, 87, a lifetime resident of Westmoreland died Sunday at the Westy Community Care Home. ...
View ArticleJess E. Stewart
Jess E. Stewart, 87, a lifetime resident of Wamego died Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Tampa, Fla. ...
View ArticleHorne pleads not guilty to apartment robbery
A man accused of shooting another man while robbing him and others in an apartment in October pleaded not guilty during his arraignment hearing Monday. Levertis Horne made that plea to two counts of...
View ArticleDrainage plans reviewed
Riley County commissioners heard an outline of plans for the second phase of the Tecumseh-Quivira project Monday. The project, which will begin in fiscal year 2014, is the second phase of a city-funded...
View ArticleNow it’s up to the voters
Riley County Clerk Rich Vargo said Monday that nearly 1,400 voters had cast ballots as of Saturday in Riley County, the hotly contested election for three seats on the Manhattan City Commission drawing...
View ArticleCity to determine short-term fate of tower
City officials have hammered out a contract for commissioners to consider Tuesday night that would apply to staffing of the airport control tower for the remainder of the federal fiscal year. The FAA...
View ArticleLaVon Blevins
LaVon Blevins, 89, died Monday at the Via Christi Village in Manhattan. ...
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