Douglas County’s top election official has begun notifying about 1,200 county voters that they may have incorrectly received an extra ballot in the mail for the upcoming city and school board elections. But Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew said Wednesday that he’s confident the ballot mistake — caused by a third-party printing and mailing company — would not affect the operation of November’s local ...
Members of the public will have a chance later this month to tour one of Douglas County’s most pristine woodland areas as part of a University of Kansas open house. The Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research at KU will host a public tour of the Baldwin Woods Forest Preserve from 10 a.m. to noon on Oct. 30. The Baldwin Woods Forest Preserve, which is between Baldwin City and Lawrence ...
Some news and notes from around town: — I’ve had many dancing partners who I am sure would have enthusiastically endorsed the idea of a “virtual dance.” While their feet may love the idea, it is not an ideal arrangement for a dance studio, yet many studios found themselves in such a situation during the height of the pandemic. “It was very rough,” Rachel Weitekamp, owner and director of Sunflower ...
The same energy firm proposing to build a 3,000-acre solar farm in southeast Douglas County also is exploring the feasibility of building a large wind turbine farm in southwest Douglas County, I’ve confirmed. Florida-based NextEra Energy has begun reaching out to large landowners in southwest Douglas County and northwest Franklin County about a project dubbed the Larksong Wind Energy Center. “We are just ...
Thanks to COVID, it had been nearly two years since former director of bands Bob Foster had climbed that ladder with baton in hand to conduct the KU Alumni Band on the football field. Not that Foster was particularly worried about the layoff. The organizers, after all, had given him the song to conduct in advance — and he had heard of it. Maybe you have too: “I’m a Jayhawk.” While members of the ...
The dichotomy of retirees living across the street from one of the city’s largest high schools is about to get deeper in northwest Lawrence. Plans have been filed to build another retirement complex — this one with an Alzheimer’s facility — in the Bauer Farm development near Free State High School. A St. Louis-based company is seeking to build 53 units of assisted living and 22 units for residents in ...