With cane in hand, Al Stuber was ready to walk the five blocks of the Lawrence Veterans Day Parade on Sunday, although he had thought he might have a different role in the event. “I was going to do the flyover, but I got beat out by a tanker,” he said. A Kansas Air National Guard refueling tanker from Forbes Air Base in Topeka got the parade underway at about 11 a.m. Sunday with a low pass over downtown ...
Shannon Oury, executive director of the Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority, had reason to celebrate even before county voters approved Proposition 1 on Tuesday. Officials with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development had recently informed her that they had signed off on the housing authority’s conceptual plan to build an eight- to 10-unit complex on the future behavioral health campus in ...
The Douglas County Commission meeting scheduled for Wednesday has been canceled. It is the second straight week the meeting has been canceled for the lack of a large agenda item. The County Commission is next scheduled to meet at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, at the Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St. Meeting agendas are posted online at douglascountyks.org.
Douglas County voters overwhelmingly approved a quarter-cent sales tax Tuesday that will fund a behavioral health campus and a slate of enhanced mental health and drug treatment services. The question that appeared on the ballot as Proposition 1 passed with more than 70 percent of the vote. The Douglas County Commission agreed in July to put the question on the general election ballot. That decision came ...
Democrat Mike Amyx, a former Lawrence mayor and city commissioner, began a new chapter in his political career Tuesday with his election to the Kansas House of Representatives. Amyx led throughout the night in the contest against Republican Cynthia Smith, winning with just less than 70 percent of the vote. With all of the district’s precincts reporting and most of the race’s advance ballots counted, Amyx ...
Leavenworth County voters carried incumbent Republican Jim Karleskint to victory in Tuesday's contest for the 42nd District Kansas House seat. The 42nd District includes Eudora in Douglas County, as well as the western parts of Leavenworth County, including Tonganoxie. In Douglas County, Karleskint, of Tonganoxie, was a few votes behind Democratic challenger Thea Perry, of rural Tonganoxie — Perry got 1,215 ...