In 1970, Janice White secured a part-time job at the Visiting Nurses Association as a junior at Lawrence High School. She needed to fulfill a requirement of the job training program of which she was part. Her office education adviser, Mary Gauthier, expressed concern that the small, new nonprofit White had joined might not last.
On Thursday, White celebrated her 50th work anniversary at the 51-year-old Douglas ...
The Douglas County Fair likely will not be open to the public this year — meaning no demolition derby, no tractor pulls and no carnival rides — but 4-H divisions will still have the opportunity to display their projects.
The annual event had been scheduled for July 28 to Aug. 1 before the coronavirus pandemic upended plans for spring and summer events. Tuesday night, the Douglas County Fair Board and the ...
Lawrence received a little over an inch of rain this weekend and is expected to receive a bit more — less than half an inch — in the coming days.
Daniel Reese, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Topeka, said the rain total over the three-day weekend as reported at Lawrence Municipal Airport was 1.18 inches, with the majority of that, "a little over an inch," falling Monday night.
Over ...
The Lawrence Farmers' Market, whose opening had been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will return this Saturday, May 30, from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Brian McInerney, the market's manager, said that all stalls would be 6 feet apart, hand sanitizer would be available at each stall, and wearing masks is encouraged. He also encourages participants at the open-air market, located at 824 New Hampshire St., to have a ...
For two years during her time at Haskell Indian Nations University, Jamie Colvin and a small group of students would collect food scraps from the campus dining hall every day and bring them to a composting area by the university’s greenhouse.
Colvin would take the temperature of the composting piles and weigh the amount of food they were adding each day, seeking to collect as much data as possible while ...
Many behavioral health leaders said they have not yet seen an increase in behavioral health crises in Douglas County due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but most anticipate a surge in the months to come.
“It’s not necessarily during a crisis that you see an increase in behavioral health crises but really months after or even a year after,” said Derrick Hurst, director of the integrated crisis team at LMH ...
