Shortly before noon Saturday, Nicky Finan, of Overland Park, took stock of the inventory available in her Maple Leaf Festival crafts booth in the 800 block of High Street of Baldwin City. “I think I’m going to run out,” she said. “That’s always my goal. It’s always busy here.” But Finan, who has had a booth at the festival for eight years, did notice a difference from past years. Traffic was ...
Voters line up at the counter and fill ballot stations at the Douglas County Courthouse on Wednesday,Oct. 17, 2018, the first day of advance voting for the Nov. 6 general election. The schedule for advance voting can be found on the county's website, douglascountyks.org
The Douglas County Commission has directed administrative staff and sheriff’s office personnel to develop a plan on how to use the $3 million available in the county’s 2019 budget to add capacity at the county jail. Commissioners decided that building an addition to the jail was the best solution after a presentation Wednesday from Undersheriff Gary Bunting, who recommended against two other options to ease ...
A 20-year veteran of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office has filed to run for sheriff. Jay Armbrister, 42, of Baldwin City, filed Oct. 4 to run as a Democrat. Armbrister said he filed early because he was eager to share his candidacy with county residents. “It’s always been my goal to be sheriff of Douglas County,” he said. “I filed early because I wanted to get myself out there and start ...
Undersheriff Gary Bunting will tell the Douglas County Commission on Wednesday that the sheriff’s office does not recommend that portable modular units be used to solve overcrowding at the county jail. Bunting will report on the cost to install and staff modular units. The report is a follow-up to a presentation Bunting gave commissioners in September on jail population numbers. At the September meeting, ...
The maple trees lining the brick streets of Baldwin City are beginning to display their fall splendor, just as a founder of the Maple Leaf Festival anticipated before the first festival 60 years ago. Ivan Boyd, one of the Baker University professors who founded the festival as a way to show off the community and university, applied his knowledge as a biology professor to select the third weekend in October as ...