The Douglas County Commission is set to meet Wednesday with a light agenda to address. The commission, as of Tuesday, has only 11 items on its consent agenda. Typically, items on the consent agenda are passed all at once by a simple majority vote, unless a commissioner or member of the public pulls an item for further discussion and an individual vote. The consent items include a blanket contract for 2023 ...
Though voters will have to wait nearly two more years to fill the two vacant seats on the newly expanded five-seat Douglas County Commission, at least one nearby county has completed the same process in recent years and could provide some clues about what's to come here. Douglas County voters approved a ballot measure that expanded the commission from three seats to five in November, and since then county ...
Five local high school students will vie for the Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence’s 2023 Youth of the Year award next week, including last year's winner of the statewide Youth of the Year contest. This year's local Youth of the Year ceremony is set for 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, at Liberty Hall. The nominees for this year's award are Free State High School junior La’Ron Williams; Free State High School ...
Douglas County leaders decided Wednesday to send an application for a new quarry in Eudora back to planning officials for further consideration, and several residents voiced their concerns and even threatened to sue to stop the project. Topeka-based construction materials company Mid-States Materials is seeking a conditional use permit to break ground on a limestone quarry just south of Eudora, directly ...
A Topeka-based construction materials company is hoping to establish a new quarry in Eudora, and it wants the Eudora and Lawrence-Douglas County planning commissions to reconsider after they voted nearly unanimously to recommend against the project. At its meeting Wednesday, the Douglas County Commission will consider the request from Mid-States Materials to return the original conditional use permit ...
A plan to transition family planning services from Douglas County's health department to another community health care provider seems to be moving forward, despite concerns expressed by the Douglas County Commission last week. Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health's plan is to pass family-planning — or Title X — services off to Heartland Community Health Center. In a letter to the County Commission earlier ...