The Douglas County Commission signaled Wednesday that it would pass an ordinance increasing the age to legally buy tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and vaping liquids, to 21. All three county commissioners said they favored the age increase. But commissioners said formal action would have to wait until county counselor John Bullock reviewed the measure, which was proposed by the LiveWell Lawrence ...
The Douglas County Commission on Wednesday will consider a proposal to enhance services that Heartland Regional Alcohol and Drug Assessment Center provides to certain patients who are recovering from behavioral health crises. In a memo to the County Commission, Bob Tryanski, the county director of behavioral health services, writes that one of the initiatives introduced this year with county funding is the ...
Now in its fourth year of operation, the Dwayne Peaslee Technical Training Center has moved beyond the struggling narrative that accompanied its early history, the school’s director said. “We are financially stable, the building is in good shape, our assets are more valuable than anything we owe and enrollment is rising because of the many new programs we’re offering,” said Kevin Kelley, Peaslee ...
Nicole Corn, a kindergarten teacher at Sunset Hill Elementary School in Lawrence, has been named a finalist for the Kansas Department of Education Teacher of the Year Award. According to a press release from the department, Corn was presented with Region 2 Elementary Teacher of the Year Award and the $2,000 prize that comes with it at a Sunday ceremony in Topeka. She will now compete with three other regional ...
The Lawrence school board agreed Monday to support a measure that would raise the age to purchase tobacco products in the city from 18 to 21. Vicki Collie-Akers, chair of the LiveWell Douglas County Tobacco 21 work group and associate director of health promotion research at the University of Kansas, asked the board to support the Lawrence City Commission enacting the Tobacco 21 Initiative. The commission will ...
The Kansas Department of Transportation announced Friday that it will begin a supplemental environmental impact study on the western leg of Kansas Highway 10, the South Lawrence Trafficway corridor, as a necessary step to expanding the roadway to four lanes. The planned three-year study will review the 19 miles of the K-10 corridor from North 1800 Road, known locally as the Farmer’s Turnpike, to the ...