UPDATED 3:55 P.M. OCT. 17, 2022
The community’s new behavioral health care center could’ve been partially open months ago, and Douglas County leaders now are considering turning over its operations to a for-profit, out-of-state company, documents obtained by the Journal-World show.
In a Sept. 2 email, LMH Health President Russ Johnson said leaders with LMH Health and Bert Nash Community Mental Health ...
County voters have three candidates to choose from to fill one seat on the Douglas County Commission.
Democrat Patrick Kelly is the incumbent. He will face Republican challenger Justin Spiehs, who repeatedly has spoken out against mask mandates and was convicted in Douglas County District Court in relation to actions while protesting. Libertarian candidate Steve Jacob, a maintenance technician with the City of ...
Douglas County voters will decide whether to add two more County Commission districts in the upcoming Nov. 8 general election.
The ballot language is fairly straightforward — “Shall the Governing Body of Douglas County, Kansas, increase its number of commissioner districts from three to five?” A “yes” vote would approve adding the two new districts, while a “no” vote would keep the current ...
The City of Lawrence is set to host a ribbon cutting for the newest complete segment of the Lawrence Loop next weekend.
The new segment runs from Peterson Road Park to Michigan Street. The ribbon cutting is set for 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, beginning at the park, 2250 Peterson Road.
The city is inviting the public to a short ceremony at the park followed by a quarter-mile walk, bike or roll down the path to ...
Just Food is adjusting its Thanksgiving meal distribution this year to account for ongoing inflation and supply chain issues, the food bank announced Friday.
Thanksgiving food items will be distributed based on a “holiday points” system, similar to the points that patrons typically use to shop at the food bank. Each shopper who has signed up for Thanksgiving meals prior to Oct. 31 will receive 14 of those ...
Kansas Rep. Barbara Ballard and former Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger teamed up on Thursday to tout the significance of the upcoming general election — and in particular urged voters to select candidates who support women's rights and to vote against the proposed constitutional amendment that would shift powers of the governor to the Legislature.
Ballard, a Democrat, and Praeger, a Republican, ...
