The Douglas County Commission is set to meet this Wednesday with a light agenda. Most of the agenda items for the commission’s April 27 meeting — seven of them — are on the consent agenda, which typically is passed all at once unless a member of the public asks to pull any individual items for further discussion. Otherwise, the only other items on the docket are a proclamation recognizing May as ...
Just a week after Douglas County moved up a tier in Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health’s coronavirus transmission scale, the county is on the cusp of moving up yet another tier to the highest level of severity, the “red” zone. Those color tiers are based on certain thresholds for two statistics: the 14-day moving average daily case count and the number of current active cases. As of late Tuesday ...
Update: This gathering is being rescheduled to another date. "We will send out notification when rescheduling details are finalized," the organizer said. The Lawrence-Douglas County Sustainability Office is set to host its first networking meeting for local ethnic retailers this weekend. The event is slated for Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Sustainability Office, 1006 New Hampshire St. The meeting will ...
Updated at 2:27 p.m. Saturday Though a nearly yearlong vacancy in Haskell Indian Nations University’s permanent presidency seems to finally be nearing its end, local and national Haskell stakeholders are still voicing concerns that the bureaucracy guiding the university’s operations has become detrimental. As the Journal-World previously reported, the Bureau of Indian Education, a division of the U.S. ...
A new president has been chosen for Haskell Indian Nations University, but the Bureau of Indian Education has yet to announce who it is, the Journal-World learned on Thursday. The update didn’t come directly from the Bureau of Indian Education, which is responsible for overseeing Haskell’s operations and hiring. Instead, U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., shared that information with the Journal-World in a ...
After hearing more than an hour and a half of public comments on Wednesday evening, Douglas County commissioners gave preliminary approval to a set of rules for future solar farms in the county. The rules outline a number of limits for solar farms in the county, from how large they can be — up to 1,000 acres — to how far they must be set back from roads, homes and other structures. Commissioners voted ...