Douglas County Republican leaders will soon select a new sheriff to finish out the term of recently retired Sheriff Ken McGovern. Republican precinct committee members of Douglas County will hold a convention on Friday to nominate and vote to appoint a sheriff. Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew said the appointment is necessary because McGovern retired before the end of his four-year term, which he was elected to ...
The Douglas County Commission has again deferred taking action on a company’s request to expand a rock mining operation near Eudora. This time, the commission scheduled about a month before it will reconsider the issue, providing time for the Hamm Quarry representatives to meet with the Eudora Planning Commission to discuss the project. Hamm Quarry, 2364 North 1200 Road, is seeking an amended conditional use ...
No Douglas County organizations failed health code inspections in June. That is partly because only four locations were subjected to the state's in-person inspections. All four of the locations are part of the Lawrence school district's summer meal service program. Three City of Lawrence locations — South Park, 1141 Massachusetts St.; Holcom Park Recreation Center, 2700 West 27th St.; and East Lawrence ...
The Douglas County Commission on Wednesday will continue its consideration of a company’s request to expand its quarry operation just outside of Eudora. The commissioners will consider amending a conditional use permit for Hamm Quarry, 2364 North 1200 Road, which wants to expand its extraction operation into 51 acres west of its property. The amended permit would also allow the rock quarry to expand the ...
A third Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence location has closed because of a staff member contracting the coronavirus. The club announced in a news release on Friday that it closed its summer site at Pinckney Elementary School, 810 W. Sixth St., because of a staff member testing positive for the virus last week. Monica Dittmer, CEO for the club, said in an email to the Journal-World that it would reopen when ...
Although Lawrence students have not been in their classrooms for months, the school district is still working on upgrading school buildings with construction projects this summer. Tony Barron, the district's executive director for facilities and operations, recently told the Journal-World that the continued renovation of Lawrence High School and upgrades to the exterior of the school district's administrative ...