A once-popular tourist railroad in Baldwin City has settled an unpaid tax bill and a pair of lawsuits, but its future remains cloudy with no date for when train rides may resume. The Baldwin City & Southern Railroad and its fellow nonprofit railway association also continue to face nearly $1 million in legal claims between the two entities, including a more than $300,000 dispute with the city of Baldwin ...
Updated at 2:52 p.m. Wednesday The first of three candidates for the Eudora school district superintendent position will make a daylong visit to the district Wednesday, with the other two candidates visiting Thursday and Friday. Mark Dodge, district communications director, said each candidate would arrive at 9 a.m. to visit district schools and then would have a 4 p.m. meet-and-greet with the public at ...
UPDATED: 10:50 A.M MONDAY, APRIL 26, 2021 A man was taken by helicopter to the University of Kansas Hospital after a single-car accident early Sunday morning. The Lawrence Police Department confirmed that a vehicle traveling northbound on Kasold Drive veered off the road and struck a light pole near Harvard Road at about 4:25 a.m. on Sunday morning. The driver of the vehicle had serious injuries and was ...
Jonathan Hart, the chairman of Black Jack Battlefield's board of trustees, wants to restore the historic site to a condition that John Brown, Henry Clay Pate and the other men who fought there in 1856 would recognize. The Battle of Black Jack on June 2, 1856, marked an escalation in the violence of the Bleeding Kansas era that preceded the Civil War. It was the first time organized, armed militias from ...
United Way of Douglas County has opened a satellite center to make the organization's programs more accessible to Eudora residents, and an AmeriCorps volunteer with deep Eudora connections is running it. The resource center opened on April 1 at 726 Main St. in Eudora, and it is currently staffed by Mary Kirkendoll, an AmeriCorps volunteer assigned to the Douglas County United Way. Daniel B. Smith, director of ...
Even though he and other volunteers Sunday had put a big dent in the amount of trash left behind at an abandoned homeless campsite deep in the timber north of Burcham Park, Greg Kipp was still amazed at the sheer volume of garbage that remained. “I’m shocked,’ he said. “I never thought it would be this bad. We helped with the cleanup last week of a campsite out at Clinton Lake. It was nothing compared ...