The Eudora City Commission and school district have agreed to address the top safety concern of parents of Eudora students. Eudora Mayor Tim Reazin said that district parents identified the need for a greater police presence in Eudora schools as their top safety concern in meetings the district conducted in spring of 2018. Currently, Eudora elementary, middle and high schools share the one police officer the ...
Politicians need to return to the qualities of true leadership that former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole personified if Washington is to solve problems, former Hewlett-Packard CEO and 2016 presidential candidate Carly Fiorina told an audience Sunday at the University of Kansas' Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics. In her 2019 Dole Institute lecture, Fiorina addressed the audience through responses to a series of ...
A Eudora activist for education is the first candidate from Baldwin City or Eudora to file for any of the city government or school board contests to be held this year. Becky Plate filed April 1 for one of four at-large seats on the Eudora school board that expire this year. Plate, a 39-year-old registered nurse, said she has advocated in Topeka in recent years for education funding and has regularly attended ...
Architectural designs for a new police station and plans for a park in the 700 block of High Street are expected to come before the Baldwin City Council later this month. Baldwin City Administrator Glenn Rodden said he anticipated that the final designs for the two long-discussed projects, which the city expects will cost $1.65 million to build, will be presented at the City Council’s April 16 meeting. ...
Story updated: 7:42 p.m. Sunday, March 31, 2019. An armed man has surrendered to Douglas County Sheriff’s Deputies after engaging in more than a 12-hour standoff in a field south of Eudora. Sgt. Kristen Channel, sheriff's office spokeswoman, said the man surrendered to deputies unharmed shortly after 7 p.m. Deputies were first dispatched at about 7 a.m. to an area near the intersection of North 900 and East ...