About an hour before the first Downtown Lawrence Farmers’ Market of the year wrapped up, Roger Gipson had no products left to offer shoppers on a chilly, rainy Saturday morning. “We’re sold out,” he said as he stood under the Firefly Farm booth's awning to escape the light rain. He was running the booth for his son, JT Hamilton Slate, and the lilacs and potted plants from Gipson’s North Lawrence home ...
Five Star Senior Living Inc., which provides management for Brandon Woods at Alvamar, will close the skilled nursing units in the facilities it manages to concentrate on independent living and “active adult properties," the company announced Friday. Brandon Woods offers a skilled nursing unit, as well as units for independent living, assisted living, memory care and short-term recuperative care. According to ...
The incumbent mayors of Baldwin City and Eudora will both seek another four years in their respective offices. Baldwin City Mayor Casey Simoneau said he filed Thursday for a second term, and Eudora Mayor Tim Reazin said he would file again for the Eudora City Commission. Eudora has a city manager/commission form of government in which the five commissioners annually elect one of their members to serve as mayor. ...
Baldwin City has been awarded another Kansas Department of Transportation grant that will allow it to become the first city in Douglas County to complete its Safe Routes to School network of trails and sidewalks. Ed Courton, Baldwin City community development director, said the latest KDOT award was a gap grant, which allows the city to target areas of missing sidewalk in its Safe Routes to School network. The ...
As he walked Saturday along Lawrence's river levee trail, explaining what he hoped a cleanup effort would accomplish, Alex Hormell spotted what he said was another homeless camp abandoned last fall with the onset of cold weather. Hormell, who organized the volunteer cleanup, had spotted tarps barely visible in the tree line beyond the steep slope south of the levee. The tarps, draped over or tied to branches, ...
Baker University is eliminating four full-time faculty positions and four major programs in response to the financial strains of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the action has sparked a backlash among some students and community members. The Baker Board of Trustees approved the faculty and program cuts on Feb. 19, and Baker University President Lynne Murray gave more details about the cuts in a video posted to the ...