This story was updated at 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 26. The Kansas Sampler was open and busy today after a Christmas Day burglary that left one of the window panes of the storefront at 921 Massachusetts St. broken and replaced with plywood. At the front counter on a busy day for Christmas gift exchanges, assistant manager Darian Koenig said the store was closed Christmas Day, and she didn’t know if any store ...
Saturday's annual Community Christmas Dinner got started not with a miles-long line of guests waiting to enter the dining room, but with phone call after phone call from people wanting their meals to be delivered to their homes. As the first diners stepped off Vermont Street and into the First United Methodist Church lunch room, dinner organizer Deb Engstrom sat in an office with a volunteer who was manning a ...
The Baldwin City community will have the opportunity during the next week to meet the four candidates vying to become the school district's next superintendent. Kelley Bethel-Smith, Baldwin City school district board president, said the board agreed to trim a list of superintendent candidates to four finalists. Each finalist will be scheduled to make a daylong visit to the community with visitation dates set ...
Although Midland Railway has recently settled with out-of-state creditors, its popular tourist train out of Baldwin City remains idled this holiday season as the railroad continues legal battles with Baldwin City and a local nonprofit. In another development, A.J. Stevens, CEO of the Midland Railway’s wholly owned for-profit subsidiary — variously called the Baldwin City & Southern, and the ...
This coming week, Baldwin City will look to build on recent downtown success as it starts tapping into additional resources associated with its entry into the Kansas Main Street Program. It was announced in March that Baldwin City, Atchison and Junction City were selected as this year's Kansas Main Street Program cities. Lori Trojan, executive director of the Baldwin City Chamber of Commerce and the Baldwin ...
Two people in Lawrence were displaced from their second-floor apartment Saturday afternoon as a result of a fire. Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical Division Chief Justin Temple said that a passerby called 911 around 2:30 p.m. after noticing smoke on the exterior of a building at 2450 W. 25th St. Temple said firefighters were able to get the fire under control in about 30 minutes. The two people living in ...