A recently opened park named in honor of 19th-century Baldwin City mayor Lucy Sullivan now has a new piece of public art to pay tribute to her life and legacy.
About 30 people gathered Saturday morning for the unveiling of a bench with a mural depicting Sullivan and scenes associated with her term as mayor and life in Baldwin City. The bench is located in Sullivan Square, a three-month old city park built in a ...
The COVID-19 pandemic accomplished what two world wars, the Great Depression and the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918 couldn’t do: lead organizers of the Vinland Fair to cancel the annual three-day event.
The board of the Vinland Fair announced the cancellation on its website, http://www.vinlandfair.com/. The fair was scheduled for Aug. 6-8. A posting on the Vinland Fair Facebook page says the decision is ...
Baldwin City residents would see neither a property tax increase nor utility rate hikes under the 2021 budget that City Administrator Glenn Rodden is proposing.
The Baldwin City Council will consider approving Rodden’s proposed 2021 budget for publication at its meeting Tuesday. Should the City Council take that action, it would set a public hearing on the budget and then consider it for final approval at 7 ...
A proposed budget that Eudora city commissioners recently approved for publication has utility rate hikes but no property tax increases, and the city manager says it represents a conservative approach to unknowns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
The $14.3 million budget plan would maintain the 2020 mill levy at 39.506 mills. At that rate, the city’s share of the 2021 tax bill on a $200,000 home in ...
Baldwin City will have a second convenience store if Casey’s General Store follows up on informal plans it shared with the city.
Ed Courton, Baldwin City community development director, said Casey’s hasn’t yet filed the required plans or paperwork with the city, but officials with the Des Moines, Iowa-based convenience store chain did present an informal sketch of a store it is looking to build on the ...
The Lawrence Police Department is investigating an early Saturday morning incident involving a weapon that resulted in a minor injury.
Sgt. Mike Cobb, of the Lawrence Police Department, said the incident occurred at 12:43 a.m. Saturday in the parking lot of an apartment complex at 2500 W. Sixth St. Upon their arrival, police officers found a victim of what Cobb called a “distrubance with weapon,” who was ...
