Cory Venable says circumstances forced him to go big or stay home when it came to a Baldwin City microbrewery that he and his wife, Jenni, look to open next year.
The Venables are starting renovations to transform the old Antiques on the Prairie building on the northeast corner of Sixth and High streets into a microbrewery and restaurant. The 7,800-squre-foot building was the town grocery store before it became ...
New laws that the Republican-dominated Kansas Legislature passed last spring already have had a chilling effect on local voter registration activities, the leader of one such effort said at a Saturday forum at the Lawrence Arts Center.
Cille King, board member and former president of the League of Women Voters of Kansas and League of Women Voters of Lawrence/Douglas County, said the county organization has ...
Although Stu Moeckel has been on the job as superintendent of the Eudora school district since July 1, he said he felt like his work really started Thursday when school doors opened for the 2021-2022 year.
“July and August are a little slow,” he said. “It really gets going with the start of school. Watching the smiles on students’ faces and their excitement, you can’t help but get caught up in ...
At a public hearing Sunday, more than a dozen people called for the State Board of Indigents' Defense Services to open a public defender office in Douglas County as a way to help address inequity in the county legal system.
In remarks before the hearing at the Lawrence Arts Center, Heather Cessna, BIDS executive director, said the board would consider the comments made at the hearing when deciding whether it ...
One woman was killed and two other people were injured in an accident Friday evening at the intersection of U.S. Highways 24 and 59 in eastern Jefferson County.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol online crash report, the accident occurred at about 8:50 p.m. Friday at the intersection of the two highways about 4 miles east of Perry.
The Highway Patrol reports the accident occurred when a southbound 2016 ...
The proposed 2022 city budgets for Baldwin City and Eudora would both keep the mill levy flat, but they would collect more in taxes because of increases in property values, and thus they wouldn't be “revenue neutral” as defined by a new state law.
The new law, Senate Bill 13, requires governing bodies to notify their taxpayers and hold a special public hearing if they are going to consider a budget with a ...
