Blake Wohler wasn’t upset when his cat Opie, whom he was showing in this year’s Douglas County 4-H cat show, noticed another competitor opening some cat food and jumped off the judging table. Cats being cats, the rules for acceptable pet behavior are more relaxed than in the dog show. So Blake, 13, calmly retrieved the domestic shorthair cat and returned to the table, where judge Sue Schmidt asked him how ...
Gov. Laura Kelly will make a visit to Eudora for an event that was postponed because of the May 27 tornado. The governor will make an 11:30 a.m. Tuesday visit to the Eudora Public Library, 14 E. Ninth St., for a ceremonial signing of legislation that is important to the library’s future. The legislation authorizes the Eudora City Commission and Eudora Township Board of Trustees to pass a joint resolution ...
Baker University will be richer for preserving the 162-year-old post office from the long-gone Santa Fe Trail settlement of Palmyra, the university’s archivist says. The historic post office, which was also a general store, is getting a much-needed restoration, thanks to a $65,000 Douglas County Natural and Cultural Heritage Grant awarded in 2018, plus $7,500 from the Douglas County chapter of the Santa Fe ...
Baldwin City's mayor is restarting discussion about building a recreation center, and he wants to ask the city's voters to authorize a sales tax to fund it. At Tuesday's Baldwin City Council meeting, Mayor Casey Simoneau said many residents had told him they wanted a recreation center, and that it was something the commission should have on its radar. “I continue to hear from people, so I have to bring it ...
A Sunday morning fire destroyed an unoccupied mobile home in a North Lawrence trailer park. Capt. Mark Hummel, of Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical, said firefighters arrived at about 10:45 a.m. at 100 Maple St., Lot 4, to find the mobile home engulfed in fire. Firefighters extinguished the fire in about 15 minutes, he said. No one was living in the mobile home, which Hummel said was destroyed by the fire. ...
Although their use is banned in Lawrence, fireworks are allowed elsewhere in Douglas County, with restrictions meant to provide overnight quiet time. Firework stands are open for business in Baldwin City, Eudora and the unincorporated areas of the county, and they can continue doing business through Thursday. Baldwin City allows fireworks to be sold and discharged from June 29 through July 4. The sale and ...