Douglas County Undersheriff Gary Bunting will provide county commissioners on Wednesday with information on the cost of installing portable, modular cell units at the county jail and will discuss the pros and cons of their use in addressing overcrowding.
Last month, Bunting shared with commissioners an Aug. 2 snapshot of the county’s inmate population that revealed that it had 244 people incarcerated on that ...
A small plaque in the principal's office explains why the U.S. Department of Education recognized Lawrence's Hillcrest Elementary as a 2018 National Blue Ribbon School, Hillcrest Principal Tammy Becker said.
The plaque reads "Teamwork (noun): The collaborative action of a group, especially when effective or efficient."
“That’s a big part of it,” Becker said of the award, which was announced Monday. ...
The Douglas County Commission will consider a measure Wednesday that would require customers to be 21 before they can legally purchase tobacco products in rural county stores.
The measure won’t have widespread implications because it would only apply to four stores in the county’s unincorporated area.
On Sept. 12, representatives from LiveWell Douglas County, the Lawrence Boys & Girls Club, Lawrence ...
Minutes after the Aug. 29 contract negotiations between the Lawrence school district and the Lawrence Education Association broke down, chief union negotiator David Reber told the approximately 200 teachers who had attended the meeting that, under state law, they could not strike. But he added an important caveat: Teachers could simply "work your contract."
What Reber was urging teachers to do was to not work ...
The Lawrence school board approved a $43.5 million bond sale Monday, for an interest rate to the district of 3.45 percent.
David Arteberry, of the district bond consulting firm George K. Baum, said the low bidder for the $43.5 million in 20-year bonds offered at noon Monday was Mesirow Financial Inc., of New York City. It was one of eight bidders on the bonds, he said. The bids were very competitive with less ...
The Lawrence school board will learn Monday how much it will cost to issue debt for the second half of its 2017 $87 million bond issue.
On the agenda when the board meets at 7 p.m. Monday at district offices, 110 McDonald Drive, is the approval of a $43.5 million bond sale. The board will consider bids it receives from a public sale of the bonds, scheduled for noon Monday.
The school board sold the first ...
