The Baldwin City Council has approved a $2.01 million bid to upgrade the main sewer trunk line serving the eastern part of the city.
The contract was awarded July 7 to Nowak Construction, of Goddard, the low bidder on the project. David Hamby, of B.G. Consultants, told the City Council that although Nowak was the low bidder, one of the other two bids the city received for the project was within $15,000 of the ...
This year’s Douglas County Fair will go on despite the coronavirus pandemic, but it will be a very restricted event, open only to 4-H participants and a few close friends and family members.
“The fair is not open to the public,” Kaitlyn Peine, 4-H youth development agent with Douglas County's K-State Research and Extension office, said of the event, which is scheduled to run from July 28 through Aug. 1. ...
Because of the recent spike in COVID-19 cases, the annual Baldwin City Maple Leaf Festival has been canceled for this year.
Mike Curran, Maple Leaf Festival Committee chairman, said the committee last week voted to call off the festival, which annually draws more than 30,000 visitors to Baldwin City during its two-day run. This year’s festival was scheduled for Oct. 17-18.
Curran told the Journal-World last ...
With a red, white and blue face mask, Abbey Berland, of Lawrence, was appropriately accessorized for the current COVID-19 pandemic and the Fourth of July holiday as she shopped Saturday at the Downtown Lawrence Farmers' Market.
“This is my first time here this year,” she said in front of the booth of Pendleton’s Country Market. “We always come here for tomatoes. It’s good to see all the booths ...
Judy Erpelding, her 17-year-old daughter Kate and Kate’s friend Madison Grosdidier grabbed free pizza lunches from the Feeding Eudora summer meal program on Friday, joining hundreds of other people who took part in the program over the past few days.
“It frees me from cooking,” Judy said as they sat down to eat at Eudora’s CPA Park. “And the girls enjoy having a picnic.”
Friday was the third day of ...
Founding a Lawrence institution was not on the mind of Don “Red Dog” Gardner when he helped start a summer-conditioning program 36 years ago for Lawrence High School athletes.
“Oh no,” he said. “That never crossed my mind. We had six athletes the first year.”
Nonetheless, the idea of a summer-conditioning program caught on in the community. A new exhibit, which will run through Sept. 18, at the ...
