As of now, Maple Leaf Festival organizers continue to plan for the annual October arts and crafts festival that draws an estimated 30,000 people to Baldwin City. However, Mike Curran, chairman of the Maple Leaf Festival, said concerns about holding the festival during the COVID-19 pandemic could cancel this year’s event, which is scheduled for the weekend of Oct. 17-18. The plan now is to make a final ...
Baldwin City's local government has received state funding to help businesses survive and reopen after the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Mayor Casey Simoneau said the Kansas Department of Commerce approved $132,000 in Community Development Block Grant funding for the city to distribute. The funding is intended to help businesses that were forced to close or limit activities because of public health orders ...
In contrast with the city of Lawrence, Baldwin City and Eudora are planning to open their municipal swimming pools this month with modifications designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Although the two cities are taking different approaches to opening their pools, officials in Baldwin City and Eudora said safety was the foremost planning consideration. “We know everybody is itching to get out, but at the ...
Lawrence firefighters quickly suppressed a house fire Sunday afternoon in northwest Larence. Capt. Chris Morrow of Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical said firefighters responded at about 3:30 p.m. to a reported structure fire at 3545 Morning Dove Circle. Firefighters arrived to find light smoke coming from the exterior of the rear of the duplex unit after a neighbor had knocked back the flames with a garden ...
Residents of Baldwin City and Eudora appear to have done more of their shopping close to home since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the latest sales tax figures from the Kansas Department of Revenue suggest. Both communities collected more revenue from their local sales taxes in March of this year than in March 2019. And Baldwin City Administrator Glenn Rodden and Eudora City Manager Barack Matite say that's ...
The honor guard of the Lawrence Dorsey-Liberty American Legion Post fires a rifle salute Monday, May 25, 2020, to mark Memorial Day. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the post had a brief ceremony with the playing of "Taps" and the gun salute in the parking lot of the post rather than its traditional ceremony at Memorial Park Cemetery. Related story - May 10 — Pandemic forces Lawrence veterans’ ...