Like many area snowbirds, Kevin Hopkins will take leave of Kansas for January and February to head south. But Hopkins, Baker University's campus minister, will travel so far south that he will actually chase down the sun and not experience a sunset until halfway through February. Hopkins leaves Jan. 2 for McMurdo Station in Antarctica, trading his campus minister duties for those of chaplain at the base that ...
The five-year strategic plan the Lawrence school district will develop this spring will be an inclusive community effort that will spell out specific steps for improvements and will keep people accountable, Lawrence Superintendent Anthony Lewis vows. The strategic planning process is new to the district, said board member Shannon Kimball. While serving as board president last year, she suggested that the ...
A plan to build an off-leash dog park at the city-owned nine-hole golf course in Baldwin City is set to get final approval in January, Baldwin City Administrator Glenn Rodden said. The Baldwin City Planning Commission voted Dec. 12 to recommend that the Baldwin City Council approve a conditional-use permit for a dog park to be built on the 63-acre golf course at 1102 Main St., Rodden said. The permit for the ...
The Douglas County Commission agreed Wednesday to subsidize the hiring of three new psychiatrists for $350,000 — a move that one official said would allow about 1,100 more people to get the mental health treatment they need in 2019. The subsidy will allow Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center to hire a new full-time psychiatrist and will allow Lawrence Memorial Hospital to hire two psychiatrists who will ...
Early next year, a new water plant east of Lawrence in the Kansas River bottoms will start supplying water to customers living more than 30 miles to the southwest, said the president of a new wholesale water district. The $9 million plant about three miles east of Lawrence on North 1500 Road is already producing water on a test basis, said Larry Wray, president of the Public Wholesale Water Supply District No. ...
Witnessing a family member be deprived of educational opportunities left a lasting impression on Mike Harris, much to the benefit of special-needs students at Sunflower Elementary School. Harris, a special-needs paraprofessional at Sunflower since 2008, was presented Tuesday with the Lawrence Schools Foundation’s annual Dedication to Education Award and the $5,000 check that comes with it during the ...