Douglas County leaders had plenty of questions and concerns Wednesday about the health department's plan to have another local health care provider take over family-planning services.
Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health Director Dan Partridge spoke at the Douglas County Commission’s meeting on Wednesday about that plan, in which family-planning services — also called Title X services — would be handed ...
Lawrence groups are gearing up to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, and some events honoring the civil rights leader and his message are even sooner on the horizon.
A number of events have been scheduled, including these:
Saturday
• The Lied Center, 1600 Stewart Drive, will present “April 4th, 1968: Dare To Dream” in partnership with nonprofit Life Restoration Ministries at 7:30 p.m. ...
While Douglas County’s director of behavioral health projects, Bob Tryanski, didn’t have much new information to share with the Coalition for Homeless Concerns Tuesday about the status of the county’s yet-to-open behavioral health crisis center, he did urge them to keep the pressure on county leaders to get it right.
Tryanski answered questions from the coalition about the Treatment and Recovery Center of ...
The only item on the Douglas County Commission’s regular agenda for its meeting this week is an update on the strategic planning process and the future of clinic operations from Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health Director Dan Partridge, and a health department representative confirmed Tuesday afternoon that the update will cover potentially shifting family-planning services away from their clinic.
The ...
Lawrence native Tammy Willits first took over the controls of a small airplane while on a flight with her father sometime around sixth grade. Decades later, her love for aviation hasn’t diminished in the slightest.
“I loved flying from the first moment that I did it with him,” she told the Journal-World recently, and she has been keen to inspire that love in others, particularly women, who represent a ...
After an hour of public comments and more than two hours of discussion among members of the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Advisory Board on Monday, a proposal calling for a daily entrance fee at the city’s recreation centers and Prairie Park Nature Center is still up in the air.
Members of that board voted 4-3 to recommend one change to the department's fees — a structure for parks and recreation program ...
