Douglas County is home to numerous parks to toss a Frisbee but these parks have dedicated disc golf courses for a real challenge and for competitions. In Lawrence • The city’s 18-hole disc golf course resides in the center of Lawrence at Centennial Park, 600 Rockledge Road. It’s easy enough to find if you keep your eye out for a large rocket as you pass Iowa Street while driving on Sixth Street. The ...
Disc golf and regular golf have a lot in common as far as scoring, fresh air, and the risk of landing in the rough, but the Kaw Valley Disc Golf Club sees tossing a Frisbee through the park as a more accessible way to make friends and enjoy the outdoors. Each Tuesday, the club meets at one of several disc golf courses throughout Lawrence and players are assigned into groups to compete against one another and ...
If you're heading east out of Lawrence on Kansas Highway 10, you might have noticed a little patch of water just off the highway with a ramp sticking out of it and a sign that says "Crown Lake." If you blink, you’ll miss it. But the lake and its resident, MoKan Ski Club, have been a fixture for 44 years, said club president Todd Bays. The lake, really a large pond, was born out of the construction of the ...
A young woman has been charged with arson in connection with an incident that allegedly led to a shooting at a Lawrence residence by the woman's mother. The woman charged with felony arson, Jayda Renae Kelly Neal, 20, of Lee's Summit, Missouri, is the daughter of Natasha Renae Neal, 45, who faces charges in the alleged gun crime. The arson charge against Jayda is in connection with an incident on March 19 in ...
Two women have been charged in connection with a shooting in downtown Lawrence in April that damaged the windows of a local business. The women, Demetria Myerick Warner Wooden, 30, of Lawrence, and Lakeisha Breeann Warner Bass, 36, of Raymore, Missouri, are each charged with one misdemeanor count of discharging a firearm within the city limits and one misdemeanor count of interfering with law enforcement. ...
An Oskaloosa man was ordered to stand trial on Wednesday in Douglas County District Court after a 15-year-old girl testified that he contacted her on social media and asked her to be his “sugar baby” before he took her to a hotel in Lawrence to sexually assault her. Kenneth John McClelland, 30, is charged with one felony count of aggravated human trafficking and one count of aggravated indecent liberties ...