WRITER: Austin Hornbostel

LMH Health's Baldwin City clinic reopens about a month after damage caused by car driving into business next door

About a month after LMH Health’s Therapy Services location in Baldwin City was forced to close temporarily due to structural damage caused by a car driving into the business next door, the clinic is open again. LMH Health announced Monday afternoon in a social media post that the clinic — located in a strip of businesses at 820 Ames St. — has reopened, using a temporary entrance for the time being. ...

Douglas County leaders to take up proposed solar farm regulations again

Douglas County leaders this week will again consider proposed standards for solar farms in the county, a few weeks after their last discussion on the topic. The proposed regulations spell out details such as how large solar farms in the county can be — up to 1,000 acres — and how far they must be set back from roads, homes and other structures. They also limit the amount of grading on the site, and they ...

Douglas County's COVID transmission rises into the 'yellow' zone for the first time since early March

For the first time since early March, Douglas County has moved out of the "green" zone of COVID-19 spread and into the more severe "yellow" zone, according to the county health department. On Tuesday, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health reported that the county had moved into the yellow tier of the color-coded community transmission scale, which is based on two statistics: a 14-day moving average of new ...

Free State junior enlists the help of famed crossword puzzle editor for perfect 'promposal'

For most high-schoolers inviting someone to prom, a “promposal” might involve a clever pun on poster board or perhaps a dramatic public gesture. Free State High School junior Jackson Roberts, however, had a different — and more subtle — idea. Jackson and fellow Free State junior Evie Stull had become close after making a habit of solving online crossword puzzles together during their free period each ...

County's 20,000-square-foot crisis and recovery center nearing completion; it aims to give people in crisis 'room to breathe'

When patients start coming to Douglas County's new behavioral health crisis center, Dr. George Thompson hopes they'll feel a little better just by walking through the doors. That's because the 20,000-square-foot crisis and recovery center has a spacious, open waiting room right at the entrance that Thompson said was designed to feel “light and airy.” It might not seem like a significant detail at first, but ...

More than 2 million migration tags later, Lawrence's Monarch Watch program celebrates 30th anniversary

In the three decades since Monarch Watch was established, the butterfly program has truly taken flight — and along the way it has created countless "citizen scientists" who've become invested in the fate of the royally named orange and black insects. An affiliate with the Kansas Biological Survey, Monarch Watch is devoted to the study of the annual North American migration of the monarch butterfly. Since ...