A bill working its way through the Kansas Legislature would give the Eudora Public Library board the authority to raise money through property taxes, which the library's board president said would help keep finances stable as fundraising efforts for a new library continue.
Senate Bill 59 would also allow the board to put a bond issue referendum before voters to help fund the new library, board president Eric ...
Julia Velasco had an appreciative audience with whom to share her interest in astronomy Sunday at the annual University of Kansas Engineering and Science Expo.
A family day crowd filed past the Cordley Elementary School fifth-grader’s science fair project and the 10 others set up on a long table on the first floor of Learned Hall. Velasco’s exhibit sought to answer the question of whether there is another ...
Owners of hybrid or electric vehicles will pay increased fees to register them with the state if a bill introduced this month in the Kansas House is signed into law.
The measure, House Bill 2372, would require an annual registration fee of $75 on hybrid passenger vehicles, such as the popular Toyota Prius, and a $150 fee for all-electric vehicles. The fee for all-gasoline-powered vehicles would be $30. Those ...
If Kansas is going to get a new statewide highway plan to fund big projects — like widening the South Lawrence Trafficway — it must first finish building the projects left uncompleted in the last plan, a new report recommends.
The state’s current transportation plan, which was approved in 2011, left 21 projects totaling $500 million unfunded, in part because state leaders raided the transportation fund ...
Thanks to the efforts of schools, churches and a business, Eudora now has a place for students and families to get new and gently used clothes free of charge.
The new clothing closet, known as the Bird's Nest, opened Tuesday in the Eudora school district’s West Resource Center, 1310 Winchester Road, said Susan Tinich, principal of Eudora Elementary School. It's now open from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and ...
Updated 7:30 p.m. Feb. 10, 2019
The group that unsuccessfully supported last spring’s countywide Proposition 1 referendum has filed an accounting of the money it raised and spent during the campaign, in contrast to the faith-based group that led efforts to defeat the measure.
Shortly before the Dec. 31 deadline, Citizens for a Better Douglas County turned in a required campaign accounting for the more than ...
