Reuter Organ Company is planning to scale back operations with the impending sale of its 78,000-square-foot corporate facility in northwest Lawrence, the company’s president and CEO Albert Neutel Jr. announced in a press release Wednesday morning.
The building, at 1220 Timberedge Road, is being sold to Harvesters, a Kansas City-based regional Feeding America food bank that announced its plans to move its ...
Douglas County's new behavioral health crisis center has been granted a provisional license, but there's still no indication of when it will open, officials told the Douglas County Commission on Wednesday.
Dr. George Thompson, the Treatment and Recovery Center of Douglas County's executive director and medical director, told commissioners that on Tuesday, the center was granted a provisional license through ...
A variety of tobacco issues will soon be before City of Lawrence leaders after being absent for more than a year.
The Lawrence City Commission at its Oct. 18 meeting is set to discuss a number of tobacco-related items, including vaping, Tobacco 21 — the federal law raising the legal age for the sale of tobacco products from 18 to 21 — and tobacco retail licensing.
Kari Rinker, the American Heart ...
Douglas County leaders are set to consider an amendment to Plan 2040 that could lead to substantial residential development between Kansas Highway 10 and East 902 Road just west of Lawrence.
Plan 2040 is the long-term plan of the county and City of Lawrence that guides growth and land use.
The Douglas County Commission will discuss the proposed amendment to Plan 2040 at its meeting on Wednesday. The amendment ...
Students at Cordley Elementary School on Monday took part in an assembly in honor of Indigenous Peoples Day.
Ron Brave, a member of the Oglala Sioux Nation of Pine Ridge, South Dakota, paid Cordley a visit and played Indigenous instruments for the students. Brave is a former Cordley parent himself; his daughter is now a senior at Lawrence High School.
Brave played and sang a handful of songs, and he also ...
While thousands in Douglas County have received the latest COVID-19 booster, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health is hoping for thousands more, especially as flu season and winter weather get underway.
The health department began administering the new booster, which is more effective against omicron subvariants, about a month ago. Anyone 12 and older is eligible for the booster as long as it’s been two ...
