Story updated at 6:51 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019: The Douglas County Commission is making a few changes in an effort to improve transparency. The commission will start its meetings at 5:30 p.m. each Wednesday, beginning March 6, according to a news release from the county. The time change is to make it easier for the public to attend than its current meeting times of 4 and 6 p.m. on Wednesdays. County ...
Story updated at 6:10 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13: Lawrence high school administrators and the Lawrence Police Department were investigating a student’s report of a threatening Snapchat post Wednesday afternoon, the district said in a news release. A Free State High School student allegedly threatened to shoot an LHS student Wednesday at LHS, and that LHS student then reported the social media post to the ...
Residents of Grant Township in rural Douglas County will have help if snow strikes the area again later this week, despite a recent turn of events. Douglas County Commissioner Nancy Thellman brought the matter to the governing board’s Wednesday meeting. She said the roads in Grant Township, largely gravel, have seriously deteriorated because of the freezing, thawing and fluctuating winter conditions this ...
Story last updated at 10:35 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12: For the second time in the span of a week, a Lawrence High School student has allegedly brought a gun to school. In an email to LHS parents and a news release to local media, district spokeswoman Julie Boyle wrote, “Acting on a tip that a student may have a gun at school,” administrators worked with school resource officers to conduct a search and ...
The Douglas County Fairgrounds coordinator is asking county commissioners to waive purchasing procedures for a project because he’s only received one bid. Building 21 was not part of the nearly $8 million fairgrounds improvement project that culminated in the debut of several new facilities for the July 2017 county fair. In a memo to the commission before its meeting Wednesday, Fairgrounds Coordinator Clint ...
Story updated 9:19 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019: After what Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew called a misunderstanding, a local coalition of faith-based organizations is on track to file a report detailing how much they spent to campaign against a county sales tax proposal. The Journal-World reported Sunday that Justice Matters was more than 30 days past due to file an account of its expenditures for its ...