The Haskell Indian Art Market is set to return for the first time since 2019. The popular market, which sells Native American arts and crafts, is back this year after a coronavirus hiatus. The market will take place Saturday and Sunday at the Haskell Pow Wow Grounds, 2535 West Perimeter Road. The market also coincides with on-campus housing being made available for all Haskell Indian Nations University ...
There will soon be a new member serving on the Douglas County Commission. Outgoing Douglas County Commissioner Shannon Portillo is leaving her seat Sept. 10, and she’ll be replaced by Karen Willey. Around 30 precinct committee people who live in the 3rd County Commission District voted Willey, a nonprofit consultant who has served on the Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Commission, into the seat ...
While City of Lawrence leaders this past weekshied away from contributing funding to extend Wakarusa Drive south of Lawrence and to build a bridge over the Wakarusa River, Douglas County still seems poised to move forward. The issue wasn’t on the agenda when the Douglas County Commission met a day after city leaders opted against funding that project, but Douglas County Administrator Sarah Plinsky noted in ...
The past couple of years have been quite busy for Just Food. Perhaps the biggest milestone in that time has been the renovation of the food bank’s building at 1000 E. 11th St., which was completed about a year and a half ago. That project was a great success, Just Food’s interim executive director, Brett Salsbury, told the Journal-World last week. The building was fully renovated, complete with an expanded ...
While many people in Douglas County were shifting to remote work early on in the coronavirus pandemic, Douglas County Emergency Communications was staying put. The department’s director, Tony Foster, said there wasn’t a choice. The department handles 911 dispatch services for the entire county, minus the University of Kansas, from the Emergency Communication Center in the Douglas County Judicial and Law ...
Before the end of this weekend, a new commissioner will have been selected to represent Douglas County's 3rd District. The convention to choose a replacement for outgoing Douglas County Commissioner Shannon Portillo is set for Sunday. By the end of that process, her district’s Democratic Party precinct committee members — officials elected in the recent Aug. 2 primary — will have identified who will see ...