Thanks to a grant from the Kansas Department of Transportation, Baldwin City school children will have a new safe route to the community’s west school campus. Baldwin City Administrator Glenn Rodden said the city learned Jan. 30 that it will receive a $580,000 KDOT transportation alternative grant, which will provide 80 percent of the cost to install a six-foot wide sidewalk on the south side of Elm Street ...
After learning that it will cost more than they expected to convert a former restaurant property into a new police headquarters, Baldwin City officials are looking to sell that property and use another city-owned site for the project. In March 2018, the Baldwin City Council purchased the closed restaurant at 203 First St. for $260,000 at the suggestion of Mayor Casey Simoneau. The original goal was to renovate ...
After a 90-minute, 30-round competition that ended in a long back-and-forth spelling duel, two eighth-grade students will be moving on from the Douglas County Spelling Bee to the state competition. The bee ended with Asher Wolfe, of Raintree Montessori School, correctly spelling "beryllium" and "ambuscade" to take first place. Right behind Asher was Southwest Middle School's Samad Farhat, who had a perfect ...
The Baldwin City Council is looking to give its historic retail district a boost and provide the community with another amenity with a $650,000 investment in a vacant downtown lot. Baldwin City Administrator Glenn Rodden said the city council has authorized $400,000 in bond debt to improve the vacant lot between the Baldwin City Post Office and Lumberyard Arts Center in the 700 block of High Street. Another ...
Gina White and Paul Touyz arrived at the Community Building on a recent Sunday with an open mind. They had come for a crash course in dancing put on by the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department. The two University of Kansas classics professors are to be married in August in White’s native England. Planning for the wedding is underway, and they thought it might be nice to have music and dancing. The ...
About 100 residents who aspire to address racial inequality in Lawrence agreed at a meeting Saturday to focus their efforts on improving the local criminal justice system. Saturday’s Community Conversation on Race at the Lawrence Public Library was the fourth such gathering in the past five months. Seft Hunter, who serves as executive director of the Kansas City, Mo.,-based advocacy organization Communities ...