The Douglas County Commission will meet Wednesday with a limited agenda that includes a proclamation thanking veterans for their service. Commissioners will also consider approving an audit of the combined $1.92 million in federal funding the county and the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department spent in 2017 on the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, and on the ...
Lawrence and Douglas County residents will have an opportunity Wednesday to comment on the proposed expansion of Kansas Highway 10's west leg. Laurie Arellano, Kansas Department of Transportation spokeswoman, said KDOT would have the first of its planned informational meetings about an environmental impact study on expanding K-10 to four lanes from the U.S. Highway 59/Iowa Street interchange to North 1800 ...
Local advocates who want the state to prioritize expanding Kansas Highway 10's west leg to four lanes are using the state’s own figures to argue that the project will pay for itself, but they say adding a toll to use the road would be counterproductive. A number of representatives of the City of Lawrence, Douglas County and the local chamber of commerce testified Nov. 8 before the Joint Legislative ...
The Lawrence school board agreed Monday to review eliminating elementary class-size goals that are written into current board policy after two board members said the action would be a step toward decreasing overcrowded classrooms. That decision to consider the revision to board class-size policy came after the board agreed to take the proposal off the board’s consent agenda of items thought to be routine ...
In early June 1967, Larry Slavens had a sideline view of the Six-Day War from the bridge of the USS Liberty about 12 miles off the coast of the Sinai Peninsula. “With Navy field glasses, you can see a long way,” he recalled Thursday from his rural Jefferson County home. “You could see men running behind tanks and planes dropping bombs. We were only going about 5 knots. It was very tranquil.” Slavens ...
The Lawrence school board will consider Monday a committee's suggestion to remove existing elementary class-size goals from board policy. The action before the board is a recommendation to strike from policy the district's class-size goals, which are to keep kindergarten through third-grade class sizes at 13 to 17 students and fourth- and fifth-grade classes at 18 to 26 students. The passage that the Board ...