Tenants to Homeowners received one of the largest slices of the latest round of federal pandemic relief in Douglas County, and that money will eventually help create nearly 70 units of affordable rental housing.
During their American Rescue Plan Act allocation process last month, county leaders granted the local housing nonprofit's entire $3.3 million request — the second-largest amount of ARPA funding ...
When the Douglas County Commission finalized its allocations of American Rescue Plan Act funding last month, only one of 14 external agencies on the list — Central Grazing Company — was a private business.
The company proposed to construct a meat-processing facility in the county, Kaw Valley Meats. Jacqueline Smith, the founder of Central Grazing Company, sees the facility as potentially instrumental in ...
Douglas County’s property owners will soon receive a notification about their estimated property taxes for 2022, the county announced Wednesday.
The Douglas County Clerk’s Office mailed the notification to 45,852 property owners Wednesday and Thursday. The county stressed that this mailer is not a bill. The Kansas Legislature requires county clerks to send a notice explaining each taxing jurisdiction’s ...
With the allocation of another round of COVID-19 relief funding behind them, Douglas County staffers say the portion set aside for internal projects will go a long way toward easing the county's finances.
The Douglas County Commission spent weeks this summer discussing the specifics of a number of requests for the county’s remaining $21 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding, the majority of the nearly ...
The Lawrence-based food bank Just Food has signed a deal for a new downtown Lawrence satellite location that will allow the nonprofit to more efficiently make ready-to-eat meals for its clients.
The food bank announced on Wednesday it will be adding the space at 805 Vermont St., and staff with Just Food confirmed to the Journal-World that the goal is to be up and running by the end of August. In the production ...
Data collection for a study on traffic stops in Douglas County may be over, but local law enforcement leaders say they won't let that be the end of the conversation about racial bias and policing.
On Wednesday night at the Lawrence Public Library, several leaders from area law enforcement agencies fielded questions from the public about the issues in the study, and they all said they would continue collecting ...
