The Treatment and Recovery Center of Douglas County has been a project years in the making, and the community celebrated that its doors will soon be open at a dedication and ribbon cutting for the space Thursday evening.
Center staff, county officials and figureheads in the county’s behavioral health landscape were on hand to commemorate the occasion.
The Treatment and Recovery Center entered its final ...
Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health has announced more than a dozen COVID-19 vaccination clinics for children ages 6 months to 4 years old.
The age group was deemed eligible for vaccination following recent Food and Drug Administration approval and a recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Six of the health department’s upcoming clinics will take place at the Community Health ...
Douglas County leaders decided Wednesday to set aside about $7.8 million of the county's remaining American Rescue Plan Act funding for a list of internal projects recommended by county staff.
That amounts to about 33% of the roughly $21 million in ARPA funding that the county still has to distribute. County commissioners were mostly in agreement about using that amount for the county government's own projects ...
Douglas County leaders at their meeting Wednesday will continue their review of local organizations’ requests for American Rescue Plan Act funding.
That review started with a work session at last week’s County Commission meeting, during which commissioners pinpointed some proposals that might rank as their top priorities so far. There are nearly 100 requests on the table for the commission’s ...
With nearly 100 American Rescue Plan Act funding requests now on the table for the Douglas County Commission’s consideration, there’s still plenty of work ahead before any of the county’s roughly $21 million in COVID relief funding is actually doled out.
Getting to this point in the first place has been a yearlong process, starting when the county first received the ARPA funding on June 17, 2021. Since ...
Since March, a new program from Just Food has helped save thousands of pounds of nearly expired food, turning items that otherwise would have been wasted into nutritious, ready-to-eat meals.
The food bank brought on Latchkey Deli owner Chetan Michie as its first sourcing and production manager in March, and since then he’s helped to turn 4,608 pounds of food into more than 5,000 pounds of meals to be ...
