A number of residents and two businesses face eviction in a month after Baldwin City recently purchased a site on U.S. Highway 56.
At its Sept. 1 meeting, the Baldwin City Council approved the purchase of the property at 109 U.S. 56 from Les Foster for $250,096. The property, which fronts the south side of the highway east of First Street, is currently the site of an old motel and a mobile home park that ...
The relationship between Baldwin City and Midland Railway has unraveled to the point the company is vowing to move its tourist train operation to Franklin County and the city is demanding the railway immediately repay more than $300,000 it received last year from a Kansas Department of Commerce grant that the city administers.
A.J. Stevens, chief financial officer of Baldwin City & Southern Railroad, a ...
Northeast Kansas residents might want to pull out the blankets they stashed for the summer as a strong cold front blows through the Midlands.
Shawn Byrne, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service Office in Topeka, said the cold front will drop tempatures the next three day well below the normal daytime high of 84 and overnight low of 51.
“We have a pretty strong cold front coming at us,” he ...
The Baldwin City Council now has plans and a cost estimate for converting the old Chapel Street gym into a community center as it moves toward a voter referendum on funding for the project.
At an Aug. 25 special meeting, Lawrence architect Jay Zimmerschied presented plans for the gym’s conversion into a community center. The project would cost an estimated $2.2 million, but Zimmerschied said it would qualify ...
Five years after purchasing the old Nottingham Elementary School property, the city of Eudora has approved the first commercial project for the site: a Casey's General Store.
In 2015, the city bought the closed Nottingham school building and the surrounding 15 acres from the Eudora school district for $850,000 with the goal of bringing commercial development to the site. The property is just north of Eudora’s ...
About 15 protesters gathered Saturday at the downtown Lawrence post office to protest what they viewed as a transparent attempt by the Trump administration to slow down mail delivery and discourage mail voting during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The protesters said they were astonished by the cuts that U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy had made to the United States Postal Service since he took over in June, ...
