When the Community Children’s Center’s Early Childhood Community Center is eventually complete, the agency’s executive director, Kim Polson, hopes it will be a key component in an “early-childhood safety net” for Douglas County.
The Community Children’s Center — an agency dedicated to identifying gaps in early-childhood services in the county and coming up with strategic ways to fill them — is ...
When Lawrence resident Kathleen Shea checked her mailbox last Friday, she was greeted by a postcard encouraging her to vote “no” on the proposed constitutional amendment on abortion, which is on the ballot for the Aug. 2 primary election.
But for a number of reasons, the handwritten postcard raised some red flags. In an especially glaring example, it got the election date wrong entirely; it encouraged Shea ...
The Cross household in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is rife with pets — three dogs, three cats, a tarantula, a few fish.
One of them — a dog named Frodo — has found himself the titular character in a pair of children’s books, and the author of those books will be making the trip to Lawrence later this week. Brian Paul Cross, the author of the “King Froderick” book series, will be selling and signing copies ...
Douglas County is just a step away from adopting its $163 million budget plan for 2023, and leaders will be making their final decision at a hearing next month.
At the commission’s weekly meeting on Wednesday, county commissioners took what might have been the second-to-last step in the budget process: they authorized staff to notify County Clerk Jamie Shew of their intent to exceed the established “revenue ...
The Douglas County Commission could take the next step in finalizing the county’s operating budget for 2023 this week.
Earlier this month, the commission completed its budget deliberation process, electing to lower the county’s proposed mill levy by about one mill. At its meeting on Wednesday, the commission will review the revised approximately $163.7 million budget once more. Then, county leaders will ...
The proportion of emergency department visits due to suicidal ideation among children ages 10 to 17 increased from 2019 to 2020, according to a Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health report.
Aihua Zhu, a senior analyst with the health department, presented the key findings of that report during the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Board’s meeting Monday night. Zhu said her study finds that during the height of ...
