With conceptual designs in hand, city of Eudora officials are looking for investors to redevelop two properties on the southern entrance to downtown.
Eudora City Manager Barack Matite said one of the properties is the 4,320-square-foot former public safety building at 840 Main St., which has been used for storage since the city’s fire and police departments moved in July 2013 to a new building at 930 Main ...
The Baldwin City school board and district teachers have reached an agreement on a 2018-2019 contract that gives all teachers a $500 annual raise and a $500 holiday bonus.
Baldwin City Superintendent Paul Dorathy said the school board on Monday approved a negotiated contract that raises the district’s base pay for first-year teachers with no previous teaching experience by $500 to $37,750. A $500 increase was ...
Douglas County Commissioner Michelle Derusseau has taken a different approach to Proposition 1 than she did for a similar ballot question last spring.
Derusseau has not scheduled informational meetings for the current ballot question as she did for the first Proposition 1, which was defeated in May. There’s little need to provide information because county voters are familiar with the issues involved, she ...
With no large item on its agenda, the Douglas County Commission has canceled its meeting for Wednesday. The commission is next scheduled to meet at 4 p.m. Nov. 7 at the Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St.
A public hearing next month has turned into a high-stakes affair for local leaders who don’t want to see one of Lawrence’s busiest highways turn into a toll road.
County commissioners last week heard that state officials are considering making the South Lawrence Trafficway a toll road to help pay for a potential project to expand the western leg of the SLT to four lanes.
Douglas County Commission Chair ...
Advance voting numbers have convinced Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew that this is not a normal midterm election year.
At the end of Saturday, 4,538 registered county voters had filled out in-person advance ballots and another 12,628 had requested mail-in advance ballots, Shew said Monday. Almost 6,000 of the mail-in ballots have already been returned.
“With the mail-in ballots requested, technically we’ve ...
