Property damage but no apparent injuries resulted from gunshots fired Sunday morning into a south-central Lawrence apartment complex, Lawrence police said. Police officers first responded to calls about 2:50 a.m. regarding gunfire from the 900 block of West 28th Terrace and 2300 block of Ridge Court, said Lawrence Police Department Capt. Anthony Brixius in an email. Officers searched both areas but found ...
Depending on what state legislators allocate for highway funding next year, improvements to the west leg of Kansas Highway 10 might have to be funded using tolls, a Kansas Department of Transportation official told the Douglas County Commission on Wednesday. KDOT project manager Aaron Frits raised the possibility of tolls while briefing commissioners on an ongoing environmental impact study, a necessary step ...
Last year’s seniors in the Lawrence school district recorded a slight improvement on the district’s composite score on the ACT and once again outperformed their state and national peers. Last week, Julie Boyle, the district's communications director, shared a news release that ACT provided detailing the results of 495 Free State High School and Lawrence High School 2018 seniors who took the ACT. The tests ...
The county’s director of behavioral health services and two Lawrence public health professionals will share statistics Wednesday with the Douglas County Commission that point to the need for increased behavioral health services in the county. The report — prepared by Bob Tryanski, county director of behavioral health projects; Dan Partridge, executive director of the Lawrence-Douglas County Health ...
The Lawrence school board approved Monday the purchase of a software package that Superintendent Anthony Lewis said would allow district staffers to respond to all stakeholder complaints and comments within 24 to 48 hours. The district approved a three-year contract for the Let's Talk! software at a cost not to exceed $35,000 annually. Lewis said the platform will allow the district to conduct student surveys ...
The Lawrence school board will consider approving a paperless meeting management software package at its meeting Monday. The board will meet with only three items on its consent agenda, or items that are routine enough to be considered in one motion without discussion or debate. Among those is the BoardDocs Pro software for an annual cost not to exceed $9,000. In August, representatives from BoardDocs and ...