Kids at Cordley Elementary School made their voices heard Friday afternoon as they marched around the school’s exterior holding signs calling for equality, kindness and acceptance. The entire school participated in a Black Lives Matter at School week — aligning with a week of action from the national Black Lives Matter at School organization — that culminated in an all-school march Friday. Cordley ...
The City of Lawrence is one of 12 Kansas communities set to receive a combined total of $5 million in federal funds through a new grant program intended to produce local transportation safety plans, Gov. Laura Kelly’s office announced Thursday. The City of Lawrence will receive a $160,000 Safe Streets and Roads for All grant — and the Kansas Department of Transportation will cover 15% of the local match ...
Two months from now, Douglas County leaders could at last be considering whether to approve final agreements with Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center for the operation of the yet-to-open Treatment and Recovery Center of Douglas County. That’s according to a tentative timeline laid out by county staff at Wednesday’s Douglas County Commission meeting, when the county shared its first public update since ...
Douglas County leaders this week will hear the first public update since late 2022 about the county’s yet-to-open behavioral health crisis center. An update about the Treatment and Recovery Center of Douglas County is on the Douglas County Commission’s agenda for Wednesday, two weeks after Douglas County Administrator Sarah Plinsky promised that commissioners would soon hear a “fuller” presentation ...
Though an abrupt change in how Douglas County distributes rent and utility assistance has had some early bumps, social service providers who partner with the agency that facilitates the program say it was a necessary move given the sheer amount of community need. Douglas County’s Housing Stabilization Collaborative announced in late January that it would be shifting from a first-come, first-served system for ...
After analyzing the Douglas County Jail's space, the sheriff's office is proposing a construction project that could cost over $45 million and would provide more room and more flexibility in where inmates are housed — but that wouldn't add any more beds. County commissioners got their first look at the proposal during a work session on Wednesday, and Sheriff Jay Armbrister stressed that he didn't want it to ...