Rural residents of Douglas County who want to divide their land into residential lots may have to wait half a year before they can get that process started.
The Douglas County Commission on Wednesday unanimously approved a six-month moratorium on the county’s processing of applications for certificates of survey outside of the county’s urban growth area. Submitting an application is the first step in the ...
The Douglas County Commission will forgo a search to fill its vacant county administrator position and will instead appoint interim County Administrator Sarah Plinsky to the permanent position.
At their meeting Wednesday, commissioners unanimously approved directing the county counselor to begin contract negotiations with Plinsky.
Plinsky has been serving as the interim county administrator since December, ...
Story updated at 5:19 p.m. Tuesday
Students at Lawrence High School return from summer break this week but 36 classrooms in the building are not ready for use yet.
Julie Boyle, a spokeswoman for the school district, said in an email to LHS families Monday evening that some classrooms in the building will not be available for use for the “first few weeks of school.” Those classrooms were part of the summer ...
Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday will continue discussing their plans for hiring a new county administrator, but it's not yet clear what those plans are.
The commission did not provide any background information on the subject in its meeting agenda, even though a majority of the commissioners said last week that they would support hiring interim county administrator Sarah Plinsky for the permanent ...
Along with math, science, history and other important topics, Lawrence’s West Middle School aims to educate students on how to be active members of their local community, said Principal Brad Kempf.
And now the school is being recognized for it.
The Kansas State Department of Education’s Civic Advocacy Network, or CAN, recently announced in a news release that West Middle School is one of 10 state schools ...
The rural areas of the county are where the Douglas County community least wants development to occur, but the county's zoning regulations make it one of the easiest places to be developed, Karen Willey said.
“The processes we have in place are absolutely turned on their heads, in terms of how easy or difficult that process is,” said Willey, who is a county appointee on the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning ...
