A year and half after the Baldwin City Council bought a closed restaurant to convert into a new police station, it is taking the first step toward tearing down the building to make room for the new facility. Baldwin City Administrator Glenn Rodden said a bid invitation was released Friday for work that would include razing the old restaurant and constructing a 5,200-square-foot building specifically designed to ...
The five candidates running for the four Lawrence school board positions on the Nov. 5 ballot shared their differing views on the challenges facing the school district, including the role that school resource officers should play, on Saturday at a forum sponsored by the Lawrence chapter of the NAACP. The five candidates at the forum, which drew about 50 people to the Watkins Museum of History, included Carole ...
After purchasing a multiuse easement along the length of Midland Railway in April 2018, Baldwin City will soon apply for a Kansas Department of Transportation grant to help install a concrete trail on the section of the easement within the city limits. Baldwin City Administrator Glenn Rodden said the city would apply in October for a KDOT transportation enhancement grant that would provide 80% of the ...
Two recent actions reflect the Eudora City Commission’s decision to take a more active role in the redevelopment of the Nottingham School property on the city’s gateway, Eudora City Manager Barack Matite said. At its Sept. 23 meeting, the City Commission awarded a $151,000 contract to Remco Demolition to remove the old school on Church Street just north of the city’s primary Kansas Highway 10 interchange. ...
Fall temperatures will arrive in northeast Kansas late next week, but first the area will have to endure another round of heavy rainfall on Tuesday and Wednesday. Lawrence already received a drenching of rain on Friday and Saturday. Bryan Baerg, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Topeka, said the weather station at Lawrence Municipal Airport had recorded 0.74 inches of rain from 8 p.m. Friday ...
Midland Railway can now carry more than tourists on its 12 miles of line from Baldwin City to Ottawa. Since its founding in 1987, the Midland Railway Historical Association has provided tourist excursion rides along the old Santa Fe Railroad line from Baldwin City to Ottawa. That could soon change, said A.J. Stevens, CEO of Midland Railway. The organization earlier this month received an exemption to become a ...