Eudora water and sewer service rates will increase in 2021 to help fund future upgrades to the city's water and sewer plants. On Nov. 23, the Eudora City Commission approved an 8% increase to water rates and a 2% increase to sewer rates for next year. These amounts were originally decided as part of the 2021 budget process this past summer. Eudora Mayor Tim Reazin said the increases are intended to cover the ...
Jennifer Pellegrini said there was a smile under her face mask as she prepared to enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner provided by the Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition Kitchen. “I’m happy,” she said Thursday afternoon. “This is a feast.” The meals Pellegrini, her partner, Matt Chambers, and his son, Alex Chambers, had before them included turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes and other holiday trimmings. It ...
For 10 years, the Lumberyard Arts Center has offered Baldwin City residents a venue to view or make art. Now it has expanded their opportunity to buy the creative output of local artists. Lucy’s Corner art boutique opened Sept. 21 at the Lumberyard, occupying the southwest corner of 718 High St. Jeannette Blackmar, Lumberyard executive director, said its shelves and walls feature the drawings, paintings, ...
Baldwin City is experiencing its best year of housing starts in well over a decade despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic downturn it spawned, city officials said. “We’re having the best year since the early 2000s,” said Ed Courton, Baldwin City's community development director. “COVID isn’t having any impact. Interest rates are so attractive, people are willing to step up.” So far this ...
A small group of nature lovers spent Saturday morning cleaning up a sandbar in the Kansas River in hopes that more people can enjoy the river's natural beauty in the future. Kansas Riverkeeper Dawn Buehler, who leads the Friends of the Kaw advocacy group, said about 10 members of the group turned out to clean junk and scrap metal from a sandbar just below the Bowersock Dam. Buehler said a lot of the metal they ...
Work will start this week to prepare the old Nottingham Elementary School site for commercial development, five years after the city of Eudora bought the 15-acre property with the vision of expanding the community’s retail tax base. That vision received a boost in September when the Eudora City Commission finalized the sale of a second lot in Nottingham’s four-lot first development phase. The agreement ...