Making someone’s day can be as easy as dropping a note in a neighbor’s mailbox or even just smiling and waving at someone on a walk, and Douglas County is encouraging residents to do that and more in its newest wellness campaign.
The well-being branch of Douglas County’s pandemic response team launched a “Neighbor to Neighbor” campaign last week. The campaign encourages people to reach out to their ...
Douglas County would not have enough staff to run its vaccination clinics without volunteers, and the county is seeking more of them as the clinics expand.
It’s a volunteer opportunity that participants have found rewarding and emotional, according to Douglas County’s deputy director of emergency management, Jillian Rodrigue.
“They keep coming out and want to be a part of moving the community ...
Updated at 5:27 p.m. Tuesday
The editor of the student newspaper at Haskell Indian Nations University filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday against the university and its president, as well as the Bureau of Indian Education and its director.
The lawsuit, filed by student editor Jared Nally, comes after Haskell's president, Ronald Graham, sent a directive to Nally in October that told the student journalist what ...
“How can a 65-year-old be as vulnerable as a 90-year-old?”
That’s the question Cheryl Fruetel asked Wednesday morning in a phone interview with the Journal-World. Her parents, who are 89 and 86 years old, had not yet received COVID-19 vaccines in Douglas County. And they’d been waiting for over a month.
Fruetel, who lives in Richmond, Va., is 65 years old herself. People ages 65 and older qualify to ...
Data from four local health organizations showed that more than 19,500 first doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been administered in Douglas County as of Thursday.
Altogether, data from the four distributors — LMH Health, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, Heartland Community Health Center and Haskell Indian Health Center — showed that 19,568 first doses and 7,411 second doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been ...
In the University of Kansas’ Faculty Senate meeting Thursday afternoon, many faculty members expressed hesitation and concern at the idea of a vote of no-confidence in the chancellor and provost.
Though Thursday’s meeting simply involved a discussion of no-confidence regarding the chancellor, Douglas Girod, and provost, Barbara Bichelmeyer, Faculty Senate president Lua Kamal Yuille explained what exactly a ...
