The Baldwin City government will ask city residents to approve on the November ballot an additional half cent of sales tax authority to be used to rehabilitate brick streets in its historic district.
Baldwin City Mayor Casey Simoneau said that the City Council in June approved placing the sales tax referendum before voters. If approved, the additional half cent in sales tax, which would be permanent, would be ...
The Lawrence community dedicated a marker Sunday at the Outdoor Aquatic Center that will remind future generations of the city’s past racist history and the struggle against injustice.
The marker placed at the entrance to the center at 727 Kentucky St. through the efforts of the Lawrence/Douglas County Community Remembrance Project Coalition, the Lawrence NAACP branch and the City of Lawrence tells the ...
Ryan Robinson spent his Labor Day weekend painting the interior of the Santa Fe Depot in Baldwin City.
In addition to the fresh paint, Robinson, the new owner of the legally troubled and recently idled Midland Railway, is freshening up relationships that were strained or severed during Midland’s previous leadership.
The first public evidence that something was amiss with Midland Railway and its for-profit ...
The Lawrence Police Department and other area law enforcement agencies are searching a rural area around Interstate 70 near the exit to Eudora for a suspect who they say led officers on a high-speed chase Sunday afternoon.
According to a news release Monday from Lawrence Police Department spokeswoman Laura McCabe, the incident started about 3 p.m. Sunday when officers were called to a car wash in the 1000 block ...
The governing bodies in Baldwin City and Eudora plan to either slightly decrease their property tax rates for 2023 or hold them steady, but residents' tax bills are still likely to increase because of rising property values.
Both of these Douglas County municipalities have published their 2023 budget proposals, and neither one of them maintains the so-called "revenue-neutral rate" — the tax rate at which they ...
Even though the Douglas County Fair ended last weekend, it's still fair time in southern Douglas County, as the annual Vinland Fair will be returning this weekend.
The Vinland Fair will take place Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the southern Douglas County hamlet of Vinland, and it's a smaller and more old-fashioned event than the big county fair. It was founded by the local Grange organization in 1907 and has ...
