The recently named executive director for the Baldwin City Chamber of Commerce will have a small commute when she starts her duties next month, but that is nothing for a woman who now travels half a continent to her job.
Mandy Latzen currently splits time between Sacramento, Calif., where she works as the deputy director of the California Department of Conservation’s Division of Land Resource Protection, and ...
As the city of Eudora starts updating its comprehensive plan, it's asking residents how they want their community to grow over the next 20 years.
An 18-question survey on the comprehensive plan is now available on the city's website. Mayor Tim Reazin said it's important for residents to fill out the survey because the plan will provide a blueprint for the city's growth, land use and infrastructure ...
Three people were displaced on Friday after a fire started in the chimney of their Baldwin City home and spread through the attic.
Julie Koerner said she called the Baldwin City Fire Department at 11:18 a.m. after discovering smoke billowing from the roof vents of her two-story wood-frame home at 1011 High St.
“It sounded like it was hailing,” she said. “I went outside to see if it was hailing on the ...
Lawrence received 2 to 3 inches of snow Saturday — deposited on a layer of ice from Friday's freezing rain — before the first winter storm of 2020 cleared the area.
Daniel Reese, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Topeka, said the weather service did not officially track snowfall amounts in Lawrence, but he estimated from social medial reports and photographs that 2 to 3 inches ...
Buoyed by a successful second year of the holiday season Polar Express rides and a $750,000 state grant, Midland Railway is upgrading its passenger cars and making ambitious plans that include a possible railroad museum.
Wrapped up in those plans are changes that stem from the Midland Railway Association board’s decision last year to create a wholly owned for-profit subsidiary, the Baldwin City & Southern ...
The year ahead will be one in which the Baldwin City government is occupied overseeing the completion of projects that have been in the pipeline for one to four years.
“We did a lot of planning last year,” said Baldwin City Administrator Glenn Rodden. “Now it’s time to get things completed.”
Two projects planned during 2019 are either underway or slated to start, Rodden said. Work has started on the ...
