The Lawrence Community Shelter will have to cut services to stay within its budget and is looking to its government and nonprofit partners to help determine how that should be done, shelter board members told community leaders Wednesday.
At a joint meeting of the Douglas County Commission, Lawrence City Commission and Lawrence school board, Jackie Counts, presidents of the Lawrence Community Shelter Board, said ...
The section of U.S. Highway 59 from Kansas Highway 10 to U.S. Highway 56 was dedicated Monday as Bernard Hill Highway in honor of the late Kansas Highway Patrol lieutenant.
The Kansas Legislature passed a bill last spring that provided for the naming of sections of the highway system after KHP officers killed while on duty.
According to the KHP website, Hill, who was born in Lawrence, was killed on May 28, ...
Lawrence's mayor wants to have a serious discussion about the city of Lawrence and Douglas County combining forces to create a consolidated government.
Mayor Stuart Boley said he plans to propose that the city of Lawrence and Douglas County jointly ask the county's legislative delegation to study the issue of a unified government that potentially would replace the city and county commissions with a single ...
Free State High School math teacher Alyssa Barratt said that being recognized Monday as a Lawrence school district Horizon Award winner was nice, but it was her students who made every school day special.
“I do this because I love you guys,” she told the students in her first-hour geometry class. “Thank you for letting me have so much fun.”
In presenting Barratt with the award, Free State Principal ...
Lawrence school district Superintendent Anthony Lewis is inviting community members to share their thoughts and ideas with him at a listening tour that will run through early November.
Lewis, a former assistant principal of Kansas City, Mo., public schools, started as district superintendent July 1. A listening and learning tour was part of his plan for his first months on the job.
The tour reflects his ...
A longtime Douglas County agricultural institution is celebrating its 100th anniversary Sunday, but most of that history wouldn’t have happened without the efforts of one black Douglas County farmer who grew up the son of a sharecropper.
Research into the beginnings of Douglas County K-State Extension revealed the central role of Ed Harvey in its early history, said Marlin Bates, the executive director of ...
