While high school students in Lawrence can often be caught up in the Lawrence High School and Free State High School rivalry, another team in town overcomes school district lines to compete for a common goal.
Team STEAM, a Lawrence student-led robotics team, has been operating for years and consists of Lawrence public, private and home-schooled students. Although Team STEAM is made up of more than 50 students ...
A student-run fundraising event for Australian wildfire relief came up big last weekend.
Deerfield Elementary third grade teacher Madeline Herrera said her students’ trivia night event raised about $4,800 for Australian organizations providing recovery efforts — and a few more donations may still be coming in the mail.
A big reason the event was so fruitful was because Lawrence resident Ron Wilson matched ...
Fire Chief Mike Baxter likes to refer to a proposal to consolidate four rural Douglas County fire departments by another term — unification. That’s because he believes a “consolidation” implies that services will be reduced, he said.
But the plan his Wakarusa Township Fire Department and three other rural fire departments — Clinton Township, Eudora Township and Kanwaka Township — proposed to the ...
Several rural fire departments in Douglas County are proposing a plan to consolidate into a single county fire district to streamline their operations.
Mike Baxter, chief of the Wakarusa Township Fire Department, told the Journal-World Tuesday that the Clinton Township, Eudora Township, Kanwaka Township and Wakarusa Township fire departments proposed the plan to the county to make them all more efficient and ...
Eight organizations in Douglas County failed health code inspections in February.
Each month, I take a look at inspection results and list every place either listed out of compliance or with 10 or more code violations. Full reports are available online at agriculture.ks.gov.
There, you can find details about specific violations, which can vary. Noncritical citations include unlabeled products, improperly ...
Employees of Douglas County’s criminal justice system may someday participate in training to better understand unconscious biases about race and ethnicity.
However, a work group formed by the county's Criminal Justice Coordinating Council doesn't yet know what that might look like, and officials said they might even have to develop a training program from scratch to meet the county's needs.
“This is brand ...
