Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health announced Wednesday that it now has the most up-to-date coronavirus boosters available for children 6 months to 5 years old, along with a new web page for scheduling vaccination appointments.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expanded updated COVID-19 vaccine eligibility on Dec. 9 to include children as young as 6 months old. According to the CDC, children in ...
The public will get a chance in early January to weigh in on a proposed revision to Douglas County’s existing regulations for wind farms.
The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission is hosting a public meeting about those regulations at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 12, at the Greenbush Resource Center, 1104 East 1000 Road.
The Planning Commission got its first look at a draft of the amended regulations for ...
In the next month, the Douglas County Sustainability Office plans to host a number of focus groups to gather perspectives from residents about how they’re experiencing climate change. The feedback will help guide a county Climate Action Plan.
The Sustainability Office has announced a series of four focus groups between now and Jan. 26, 2023, following a similar meeting targeted at Indigenous community members ...
When the Douglas County Courthouse’s 117-year-old clock stopped ticking in August, Douglas County Buildings and Maintenance Director Jimmy Wilkins didn’t think it would ever get fixed.
That’s because the parts to fix it no longer existed. But the clock only ended up stuck for a matter of months. A chain of communication about who might be able to tackle the project eventually led Wilkins to Eudora ...
A pair of Lawrence business owners have donated thousands of dollars to help support the city’s emergency shelter for people experiencing homelessness.
Just before Christmas Eve, Tom and Marilyn Dobski donated $10,000 to the Douglas County Community Foundation to help support the city-operated Winter Emergency Shelter at the Community Building, 115 W. 11th St., in downtown Lawrence. Tom Dobski told the ...
A draft of amended regulations for wind farms in Douglas County is now open for public comment, but the process of passing them will extend for three months and half a dozen more public meetings.
To start with, the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission heard what chair Sharon Ashworth described as a “thorough baseline” of the proposed amendments to those regulations last week. Planners Sandra Day and ...
