A visitor can discover an outsized amount of history in Vinland, but Stan Lawson says the people behind the history are resting in a 4-acre plot just northeast of the southern Douglas County hamlet. “There is a lot of interesting little things here,” he said, pointing to the gravesite of John K. Elwell, who was an associate of famed 19th century military health champion and reformer Clara Barton. “He’s ...
A fire at a former Eudora church caused “extensive” damage to the unoccupied building, Eudora Assistant Fire Chief Chris Hull said Sunday. Flames whipped by the day's strong winds caused considerable damage to the second and third floors of the vacant building at the corner of Seventh and Church streets, which was once home to the Eudora United Methodist Church, Hull said. Firefighters battled the blaze ...
A tourist and event entrepreneur known for a Lawrence holiday pop-up restaurant is in the process of buying Midland Railway with the intention of resuming the once-popular tourist excursion rides on the Baldwin City line. Ryan Robinson announced Saturday on social media he was purchasing the nearly 12-mile line that connects Baldwin City and Ottawa. In an interview Sunday with the Journal-World, Robinson said ...
Sunday morning's thunderstorm added another half inch of rainfall to Lawrence's total this year. John Woynick, a meteorologist with the Topeka National Weather Service office, said the storm, which moved through the area between 7:30 and 8 a.m., also brought strong winds. The highest wind speed recorded at the official National Weather Service monitoring station at Lawrence Municipal Airport was 58 mph at 7:43 ...
As Susan Vick entered David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium on Sunday as one of the first of the University of Kansas Class of 2022 to make the march down the hill from the Campanile, she said she was pleased the commencement was delayed four hours so she could make the traditional walk. A morning thunderstorm prompted university officials to postpose the commencement to 2:30 p.m., which was a move Vick said she ...
Updated at 2:59 p.m. Thursday, May 19 A 10-year-old girl who was a passenger on a motorcycle struck by van Saturday on Kansas Highway 10 has died. Witness statements and vehicle parts collected by sheriff's office investigators indicate that the van, which left the scene on East 1900 Road, is a 2015-2019 white Ford Transit-250, according to a Sunday email from Douglas County Sheriff's Office spokesman George ...