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 ...
The fall general election was a record-breaking midterm that approached the turnout of presidential election years, Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew said Tuesday. A total of 47,155 of the county’s 79,895 registered voters cast ballots in the general election, for a turnout of 59 percent, Shew said. The number of voters and turnout shattered the previous midterm turnout record of 39,000 voters in the 2014 ...
Three years ago, Kristen May took a job as a special education paraprofessional in the Lawrence school district because the hours worked well with her daughter’s schedule. This August, May took a big career step when she started the school year as a special education teacher at Kennedy Elementary School, although she has not yet obtained a special education teaching license. A two-year pilot program that the ...
Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew is predicting a record-breaking midterm turnout after all the votes are cast Tuesday, but he admits he doesn’t know what the large number of votes cast in advance will mean for traditional election day voting. County residents crowded the first- and second-floor rotunda areas of the Douglas County Courthouse all morning Monday to cast in-person advance general election ballots ...
On Friday, Olympic gold medalist and Oglala Lakota (Sioux) tribe member Billy Mills visited students at the middle school that now bears his name, and a question from one of the kids was so impactful, he said, that he cried tears of optimism in his hotel room that night. That question, Mills said Saturday at a dedication ceremony for his namesake school, was about the difference between racism in the past and ...
The Lawrence school district is set to conduct telephone and online surveys to find out what students, parents and staff think about starting high school classes later in the morning. Lawrence Deputy Superintendent Anna Stubblefield said the surveys were being finalized and would be sent no later than Nov. 12 to all district parents of students from sixth through 12th grade, students in those grades and staff ...