The first baby born at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in the new year arrived at the wrong holiday. “She was due on Christmas, actually,” said Christin Bowman, who delivered Brynne Paige Bowman at 1:35 a.m. Wednesday. “She’s a little late. We joked she’d show up on New Year’s. I think it’s better. She will have more fun in the future having her birthday on New Year’s.” Parents Christin and Sarah ...
With an annual rainfall total more than 9 inches above normal, 2019 was the wettest year in Lawrence since the National Weather Service placed a station at the local airport in 1998. Daniel Reese, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service office in Topeka, said the airport received a total of 47.69 inches of rain over the past year, including the 1.14 inches of rain that fell on Saturday. The Lawrence ...
The Eudora City Commission will get a jump on an issue that will be on its plate throughout 2020 when it is asked early next month to approve the sale of a lot on the former Nottingham Elementary School property. Eudora Mayor Tim Reazin said he expects the City Commission to consider selling part of the property to a chain restaurant company at its Jan. 13 meeting. He did not specify which company wants to buy ...
On a recent Thursday, Dorothy Resco and Wilbur Heath enjoyed a noon meal and conversation with Rhonda Seitz at the Eudora Community Center. Seitz had delivered the meals Resco and Heath were eating through her job with Meals on Wheels of Eastern Kansas. She had time to visit with Resco and Heath because the Eudora Community Center was the last of four Douglas County sites where she delivers the meals that her ...
Baldwin City officials are starting to make plans to celebrate the city’s 150th birthday. Baldwin City Mayor Casey Simoneau appointed a committee earlier this month to help plan the sesquicentennial celebration. Historic Baldwin City, about 20 miles south of Lawrence, was founded on Sept. 22, 1870. The committee is charged with developing proposals on how the community can mark the event and suggesting how ...
The striking contemporary design of the newest item on view at Lecompton’s Territorial Capital Museum is at odds with the antique furnishings that fill the first-floor room in which it is displayed. The translucent piece sits on a wooden base with brass plate identifying it as the Governor’s Tourism Award. Below that is a line reading “Paul Bahnmaier" and another reading “Lecompton.” The award was ...