Donna Curran, longtime booth committee chair for the Maple Leaf Festival, said it takes something different for a first-time vendor to earn a spot at the popular autumn festival. Most of the vendors return year after year, and the 361 booth spaces usually are claimed four to five months before the festival. She does hold a few each year, though, for something different. This year, the application of the ...
Don “Red Dog” and Beverly Gardner, center and right, greet his sister-in-law MaryJo Green, left, at a gathering Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018 at Abe and Jake's Landing to mark their recent birthdays. Beverly celebrated her 63rd birthday on Oct. 5, and Don, a former Marine, Lawrence police officer and head of security Lawrence High School who has led community Dog Day fitness workouts for 35 years, turned 80 on Oct. ...
Negotiators from the Lawrence school district and the local teachers union will schedule a second meeting with a federal mediator after the first one failed to break their deadlock on the 2018-2019 teacher contract. David Cunningham, the district’s legal counsel and executive director of human resources, and Laurie Folsom, Lawrence Education Association president, said the two sides did make some progress ...
Although plans for a new crisis center and enhanced mental health services have been scaled back by more than $700,000, Douglas County's director of behavioral health projects said the projects are still a big step forward for the county. “The good news is we are still committed to a broad array of services,” Bob Tryanski told the Douglas County Commission at its Wednesday meeting. Tryanski and a coalition ...
Negotiating teams from the Lawrence school district and the Lawrence Education Association will meet Wednesday with a mediator from the U.S. Department of Labor in an attempt to hammer out a teaching contract for the 2018-2019 school year. The district and the teachers union have been at an impasse since negotiations broke down on Aug. 29 over salary differences and union requests for assured compensation for ...
The man charged with developing new plans for a behavioral health campus and associated enhanced services will present the Douglas County Commission with ways to shave hundreds of thousands of dollars off of an earlier set of plans. The plans Bob Tryanski, county director of behavioral health projects, will share at a 6 p.m. presentation on Wednesday also will be the first look county voters will have at the ...