The Douglas County Commission will have a work session Wednesday on the option of using more of the money it collects from the countywide 1-cent sales tax — the one approved by voters in 1994 — to finance projects, including a jail expansion. In a report provided to county commissioners in advance of the meeting, Assistant County Administrator Sarah Plinsky writes that the county currently has an ...
Negotiating teams with the Lawrence school district and the district teachers union spent seven hours with a federal mediator Monday but were unable to reach agreement on a 2018-2019 contract for teachers. The district and Lawrence Education Association have been at impasse since August over wages and issues involving staffing and teacher input in classroom suspensions. The union is asking for a $1,600 increase ...
The Lawrence school district closed its alternative high school in 2004, but advocates say the need for it still remains, and they're working with the school district to try to bring it back. “We need to do more to help floundering students,” said Sue Malloy, who taught for 29 years at the alternative high school. “Everybody knows there are still students floundering.” Malloy is one of the core ...
At its short meeting Wednesday, the Douglas County Commission announced plans for a recognition ceremony for retiring County Administrator Craig Weinaug. Weinaug announced in August he would be retiring Dec. 14 from the position he has held for 26 years. Commission Chair Nancy Thellman said the county would have a retirement celebration for Weinaug from 2 to 5 p.m. Dec. 14, at the Flory Meeting Hall at the ...
Notes left on a comment board Wednesday at a public informational meeting on proposed upgrades for Kansas Highway 10 left no doubt about what was on attendees' minds: "No tolls." At the meeting at Southwest Middle School, which the Kansas Department of Transportation hosted to get public feedback on a proposal to expand K-10 to four lanes from the U.S. Highway 59/Iowa Street interchange to North 1800 Road, that ...