In recent days, Douglas County has crossed a COVID threshold that at one point would have led to celebration: We’re in Code Green, the lowest COVID risk tier established by county health leaders.
But don’t celebrate quite yet, and certainly not without a mask.
While the Code Green designation is a sign that COVID cases have fallen to recent lows, the local health department is backtracking from its ...
The president and CEO of the United Way of Douglas County has left his position, and the nonprofit organization is unsure of how or whether it will fill the spot.
Jeffrey Cornish departed as leader of the organization on Monday, Peggy Johnson, interim CEO of the United Way of Douglas County, confirmed to the Journal-World. Johnson said Cornish left the position as part of a decision by the board to undertake ...
Lawrence is a town that likes to go round and round about lots of things, so maybe it is appropriate that it is gaining a national reputation for the ultimate whirling machine — helicopters.
While locals may picture airplanes when they think of the Lawrence Municipal Airport, the airfield in North Lawrence actually may have more of a national — or even international reputation — for helicopters.
The ...
My Fourth of July party was big, but not this big. Something caused a retail explosion in July that has contributed to a more than $3 million budget surplus at Lawrence City Hall, according to the latest sales tax reports from the state.
The new reports are technically the September sales tax reports, but due to normal delays in the state's reporting system, they largely reflect spending that occurred in July. ...
U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner in Lawrence on Thursday declined to say whether he supported longstanding vaccine mandates for schoolchildren, as he was pressed on why states could mandate vaccines for certain childhood diseases but not COVID-19.
At the forum, LaTurner — a Kansas Republican who represents Lawrence as part of the 2nd Congressional District — told the crowd at the Lawrence Public Library that he ...
Some of the hundreds of volunteers who staffed the COVID-19 vaccination clinics at the Douglas County fairgrounds will be back there next week, but this time they won’t have to deliver any shots.
Good thing, too, because the line of visitors that will be at the fairgrounds this time would require a pretty big needle.
Lawrence’s Anheuser-Busch distributor is bringing the famed Budweiser Clydesdales to the ...
