Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday passed a budget that includes a property tax increase, a utility rate increase and $17 million toward a new police headquarters. Commissioners at their meeting approved an approximately $255 million budget for 2018 that increases the property tax rate by ...
In Tuesday's primary election for the Lawrence City Commission, incumbents Lisa Larsen and Matthew Herbert easily earned the right to move on to the November general election.Larsen established her spot on the top of field of eight candidates when advance voting totals were released shortly ...
Topeka ? Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach does not appear to have conducted any public information campaign, as required by law, to publicize the fact that the state recently shifted the election cycle for municipal elections from the spring to the fall of odd-numbered years.Douglas County ...
The intersection of 24th Street and Ousdahl Road will be closed for part of this week, the city announced Tuesday.The intersection will shut down completely Thursday and Friday to allow for the installation of a waterline, according to a city news release.
About 6.5 percent of eligible voters have cast ballots in today’s Douglas County Commission primary, according to a midafternoon update from the Douglas County clerk’s office. According to the 3 p.m. update, 2,855 voters had cast ballots at Lawrence polling sites Tuesday, while another 967 ...
The string of traffic signals on south Iowa Street now extends into rural Douglas County with the placement of signals at the intersection of U.S. Highway 59 and County Route 458.The signals are only partially functioning currently — blinking red for traffic on County Route 458 and yellow for ...
After an unfruitful first attempt, the process to select a location for a city bus transfer hub is starting anew.The first public meetings as part of a new transit center location study are scheduled for Thursday. City officials said the meetings will gather feedback from residents on desired ...
After more than three hours of deliberation Monday night, representatives of the Lawrence school district and local teachers union agreed to extend contract negotiations for the upcoming school year. At the meeting’s end, Lawrence Education Association negotiators were left to consider the ...
An administrator with a Nebraska nonprofit agency has been selected as the next CEO of the United Way of Douglas County. Peggy Johnson, United Way president-elect, said Jannette Taylor, the statewide administrator of children services for Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska, Inc., had been ...
Topeka ? A legislative committee agreed Monday to authorize audits of the state's animal inspection program and its wildfire suppression efforts and to put those audits in line ahead of two previously scheduled audits.State Sen. Marci Francisco, D-Lawrence, was one of three lawmakers who asked ...
An England-based company that makes tough labels for tires and many other rubber products is opening a manufacturing plant in Lawrence. Polymeric Labels of Oldham, England, has reached a deal to open a $1.5 million facility in vacant space near 31st Street and Haskell Avenue, an official at the ...
Award-winning author George Saunders will visit Lawrence this fall as part of the Lawrence Public Library’s 2017 Ross and Marianna Beach Author Series, the library announced in partnership with the University of Kansas Libraries Monday. “George Saunders is a literary master at his peak,” ...
Lawrence voters will decide Tuesday which Lawrence City Commission candidates will move forward. The primary election for the three open seats on the City Commission includes eight candidates. Voters can select up to three candidates, and the top six vote winners will move on to the general ...
Those taking in last week’s Douglas County Fair saw lots of new facilities, but little in the way of new activities.That was by design, fair officials say.This was the first year all the new facilities included in the $7.95 million fairgrounds renovation project were available for the fair. ...
The fair season continues in Douglas County this week with a decidedly different flavor as the Vinland Fair returns for its 110th year.As he watched 4-H’ers remove the last of the livestock from the Open Air Pavilion on the Douglas County Fairgrounds Sunday morning, Mark Brown, a member of ...
At the time of his death in 1999, Parker McKenzie was regarded as the oldest living member of the Kiowa tribe. Born in a teepee in Oklahoma three years prior to the 20th century, he was also widely recognized as an amateur linguist who played a fundamental role in developing a dictionary of his ...
Local tourism leaders are estimating that the Junior Olympics and the thousands of people who came to Lawrence for the events pumped more than $17 million into the northeast Kansas economy. As the event concluded on Sunday, Lawrence’s convention and visitors bureau released a report ...
Not many artists readily admit that their intention with their work is to disappoint the viewer. Anson DeOrnery, who goes by the artist name Anson The Ornery, on the other hand, has a show at the Lawrence Arts Center titled "Deluge," which is, well, kind of a bummer the more it is explored. ...
The public hearing for the city’s 2018 budget will take place Tuesday.As part of their Tuesday meeting, Lawrence city commissioners will hear public comment and make changes to the proposed budget for next year. The budget currently calls for a 1.25-mill increase in the property tax rate, a ...
Although several Lawrence city commissioners say they want to minimize the property tax increase next year, exactly what will be cut from the 2018 budget won’t be known until Tuesday. The public hearing for the budget will take place during the commission's Tuesday meeting, and longtime ...