A Lawrence resident has been selected to serve on the board of directors for a statewide organization. Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly recently appointed Brad Allen to the board of directors for Humanities Kansas, according to a news release from the governor’s office. Allen is currently the director of the Lawrence Public Library, which he has led for the last seven years. Allen told the Journal-World that he was ...
After a night of excessive drinking and her friends helping to get her to sleep at a Lawrence apartment in May 2018, a University of Kansas student woke up to find a man on top of her, she testified in Douglas County District Court on Thursday. Although she said she did not remember most of the night, she said she remembered getting up and going to another room of the apartment to find her best friend, which is ...
Today’s educators are teaching students who will one day establish living quarters on the moon or even travel to Mars. That’s according to Sam Ortega, of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, who told the Journal-World the federal space organization thinks it's important to offer resources to K-12 educators and college faculty because they are helping to create a pipeline of workers who could soon expand ...
The Douglas County Commission kicked off discussions about finding a permanent county administrator on Wednesday, but a majority of commissioners said they believed they have already found one in Sarah Plinsky. Plinsky has been serving as the interim county administrator since December, when the previous administrator, Craig Weinaug, retired after working for the county for 26 years. Although Weinaug announced ...
The Lawrence school district unveiled a new logo through its social media platforms on Monday. The new logo features a lit lightbulb — with a star representing a student as the light source — wearing a blue mortar board, above the district’s name. Superintendent Anthony Lewis said on Monday during the Lawrence school board meeting that the logo represented the students of Lawrence: “bright, creative ...
The Douglas County Commission will soon consider authorizing its 2020 budget and begin discussions about finding a permanent county administrator. The commission previously said it would not begin the search for a new county administrator until the budget work was finished. Commissioners are expected to hold a public hearing on the budget and finalize it during their regular meeting on Wednesday. The budget ...