A fixture of Lawrence’s local music scene, Americana Music Academy, is gearing up to celebrate a milestone this week — 20 years since its founding.
The academy is one of just a handful of nonprofit organizations dedicated to teaching and promoting American roots music and its influences across the country. Lawrence’s academy offers private and group lessons, hosts jam sessions and other live music events, ...
The Treatment and Recovery Center of Douglas County should soon be officially licensed, but it’s still unclear when exactly it’ll be ready to open.
The center’s executive director and medical director, Dr. George Thompson, told the Journal-World Thursday afternoon that a majority of the pieces were in place. The final operational roadblock is licensing and, as Thompson tells it, that’s a box that will ...
The U.S. faced a record-high shortage of more than 80,000 truck drivers last year, according to the American Trucking Associations, and the sole commercial driver's license instructor in Douglas County, Peaslee Tech, is hoping to help fill in that gap.
The technical school was selected as one of 14 external agencies to receive American Rescue Plan Act funding in July. Peaslee Tech was granted $190,750 to expand ...
The Douglas County Commission won’t be meeting this week.
Douglas County Administrator Sarah Plinsky told the Journal-World after last week’s meeting that the commission would be taking the week off and would reconvene during the second week of October.
In part, Plinsky said that’s because there wouldn’t be enough business to take care of to fill a meeting agenda, but it’s also because commissioners ...
The Douglas County Heritage Conservation Council is looking to put together a Rural Preservation Plan, and its first step in doing so will be an upcoming community input session.
The meeting is set for Oct. 15 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Vinland Fairgrounds, 1736 North 700 Road. The Heritage Conservation Council is partnering with Lawrence-based architectural firm Hernly Associates to create the plan.
At the ...
When the COVID-19 pandemic snarled supply chains, the Senior Resource Center for Douglas County had a big problem: Two of the ADA-accessible vans it uses to transport seniors to doctor's appointments urgently needed to be replaced.
Wheelchair-accessible vehicles were being snatched off the market almost as quickly as they appeared, said Megan Poindexter, the Senior Resource Center's executive director. And ...
