Douglas County leaders have started reviewing local organizations' requests for American Rescue Plan Act funding, and they've identified some proposals that might be at the top of their list.
On Wednesday, the County Commission held the first of at least two work sessions dedicated to reviewing the requests for the county's remaining ARPA funds. County Administrator Sarah Plinsky said the number of funding ...
Douglas County won’t be adding a new city within its borders for now, after the Douglas County Commission denied a petition to incorporate the proposed City of Clearfield following a three-hour public hearing on Wednesday night.
The commission cited a few chief concerns as reasons for that decision. Among them were that there was no concrete plan for how to provide city government services and that the ...
Douglas County leaders are set to tackle two large-scale topics this week — they’ll review nearly 100 requests for American Rescue Plan Act funding and conduct a hearing about a proposal to incorporate a new city in the southeastern corner of Douglas County.
On Wednesday, Douglas County commissioners will begin to comb through the ARPA funding proposals during a work session. After that, the agenda for the ...
Douglas County’s new behavioral health crisis center is set to open this summer after years in the making.
The Treatment and Recovery Center, located at 1000 W. Second St. on the Treatment and Recovery Campus of Douglas County, is designed to provide people experiencing a mental health crisis with immediate access to care and connect people with community resources that will put them on a path to recovery. ...
The risk of tick-borne illness should be on the public’s radar as the weather continues to warm, a physician with LMH Health told the Journal-World Friday.
Infectious disease physician Dr. Christopher C. Penn said Douglas County is actually already in its typical tick season.
“It feels like a surprise every year, but generally in early spring, I have to step back and remember that we are entering tick ...
Student-athletes in Haskell Indian Nations University’s cross country program were made to sign a no-contact agreement and say they have endured a hostile environment on campus since last fall, stemming from a federal investigation of the team’s former coach.
That coach, Clay Mayes, was hired to lead Haskell’s cross country team in July of 2021 and moved to Lawrence from California with his wife and two ...
