Lacey Vesecky has had a busy summer, but she won’t let that make her unprepared for the livestock arena at this week’s Douglas County Fair. “That doesn’t happen with Vesecky kids,” she said. The 19-year-old Lacey is preparing for the Douglas County Fair with her 17-year-old sister Holly on the Vinland Valley farm of her parents, William and Joanna Vesecky. The fair offers different things to ...
As he surveyed the two rooms filled with well-wishers Saturday at the University of Kansas Adams Alumni Center, Richard Schiefelbusch said he wasn't surprised by the turnout. “When you live 100 years, you make a lot of friends,” he said. With his great sense of humor and openness, Schiefelbusch, a distinguished professor emeritus in speech and language pathology, may have made more friends than other ...
The leader of the Douglas County Commission says she and her fellow commissioners are already giving thought on how to implement scaled-down versions of programs they viewed on a tour of Johnson County's correctional facilities. On Friday, Douglas County Commission Chair Nancy Thellman, commissioners Mike Gaughan and Michelle Derusseau and a number of county staff members toured a 50-bed substance abuse ...
The Lawrence school board will have a special meeting at 7 p.m. Monday to consider approving the district's 2018-2019 budget for publication. If the board approves publication of the budget in the Journal-World as expected, the action will set a public hearing on the budget for 7 p.m. Aug. 13. The published budget will establish the maximum district expenditures for the coming school year, which can't be ...
A tight job market is making it harder for the Lawrence school district to fill vacant food-service, custodial and paraprofessional positions before school starts in three weeks, said David Cunningham, the district's executive director of human resources and its chief legal counsel. On Tuesday morning, the school district hosted a four-hour job fair at the district office for the positions. Three hours into the ...
The Douglas County Commission spent most of its Wednesday meeting in executive session to discuss an undisclosed matter involving the Douglas County Department of Criminal Justice Services. Joining Commissioners Nancy Thellman, Mike Gaughan and Michelle Derusseau and county legal counselor John Bullock in the closed-door 40-minute discussion was Douglas County Administrator Craig Weinaug, Assistant County ...