The local 2021 fall harvest got underway in earnest last week, about three weeks behind the normal schedule, said the general manager of a large area elevator cooperative. The local corn harvest normally starts about Sept. 1, said Clark Wenger, general manager of the Ottawa Cooperative Association, which owns elevators in 13 area communities, including two in Lawrence. However, spring rains delayed planting in ...
Voters in the city and township of Eudora will be asked this coming spring to approve a $4.6 million bond issue to construct a new library, the president of the Eudora Community Library Board said. The board is currently working with Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew to ensure that paperwork is in place to give the library board the authority to advance a bond issue, said Eric Magette, library board president. ...
The Eudora City Commission is going forward with its original plan to pay for the design and installation of youth soccer fields on Eudora school district property after it had entertained a proposal from a private soccer youth organization to pay for and manage the new facility. Eudora City Manager Barack Matite said the city was now having the design for the soccer fields prepared. The fields are to be ...
Lawrence firefighters made quick work of a fire at a 23rd Street business early Sunday morning. Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical Battalion Chief Brandon Holloman said firefighters from Station No. 2 were able to get water on a fire at Automotive Technology Specialist Inc., 1226 E. 23rd St., eight minutes after receiving a 12:17 a.m. dispatch of flames inside the business. Firefighters from the station at ...
Lawrence has received a little more than 3 inches of rain since Thursday morning, but the National Weather Service is forecasting a lovely end to Labor Day weekend. Chelsea Picha, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Topeka, said 3.02 inches of rain have been recorded at Lawrence Municipal Airport since a series of thunderstorms started on Thursday. She said 1.5 inches fell from 7 a.m. ...
Newly married couple Emily and David Owens made a visit to the Lawrence Humane Society on Saturday to take the next step in their life together. “We just got married,” Emily said. “This is what married couples do — get a dog.” Although they were open to any dog that won their hearts in the shelter’s kennels, they were looking more for an older pup or adult dog. That meant they could take advantage ...