Douglas County leaders discussed a slate of proposed changes to the county's zoning regulations on Wednesday, including a measure that would allow for more public feedback before rural land could be divided into residential lots.
Zoning Director Tonya Voigt and Planner Mary Miller presented a broad overview of the proposed regulations to the County Commission during a work session. They explained that the ...
Since Shannon Kimball began serving in the Lawrence school district in 2010, the Lawrence school board has approved several construction projects to renovate buildings across the district.
While Kimball, who served on a special elementary school facilities task force for the district in 2010 prior to joining the board in July 2011, helped craft the plans for those renovation projects during her two terms on the ...
The Douglas County Commission will soon begin a process to change zoning regulations in the unincorporated parts of the county.
During a work session on Wednesday, the commission will get its first look at the proposed zoning regulation changes, which include adding a public feedback step to the county’s process when considering applications to subdivide land in rural parts of the county.
Currently, those ...
When Carole Cadue-Blackwood was a fifth-grade student at Cordley Elementary School, a teacher told her she didn’t think Cadue-Blackwood would finish her education.
“I was really skinny, we were really poor, and I got bullied,” she said. “(The teacher) said, ‘I bet a dime to a dollar you won’t finish high school.’ And I believed it.”
Editor’s note: The Journal-World over the next several ...
A group of protesters gathered on Monday to call for a Douglas County prosecutor to be removed from her position for what they believe to be prosecutorial misconduct.
In a protest outside the Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center, local defense attorney Sarah Swain led the group in calls for the firing of Amy McGowan, the chief assistant district attorney for Douglas County. Some protesters were ...
In a new area of Lawrence High School, students are now seeing a lot of something that they only got a little bit of before — sunlight.
Large glass windows are a major feature in LHS’s new “innovation corridor,” a renovation that aims to bring the decades-old school into the 21st century. The new area was constructed this summer as the first part of a multi-phase renovation of the school, a $46 million ...
