A Boys & Girls Club member from Lawrence is set to represent the entire state in a few months after being named the 2022 Kansas Youth of the Year.
Arabella Gipp was selected as the winner of the statewide competition Monday night during a ceremony held via Zoom. She’ll advance to represent the state of Kansas in the Boys & Girls Club Southwest Region Youth of the Year competition on June 10 in Dallas, ...
Douglas County is in the early stages of imagining an Open Space Plan for preserving natural landscapes located throughout the county.
Such a plan seeks to help guide the protection and management of natural lands. That can include areas like trails, native prairies, wetlands, wildlife habitats, agricultural lands and heritage sites.
The specific areas in Douglas County that might end up a part of that ...
Douglas County’s coronavirus numbers are low right now, but LMH Health said Friday that it was on the lookout for a new subvariant of the virus known as BA.2 or "stealth omicron."
The hospital's update said that no cases of BA.2 had been detected so far in Douglas County, but that the subvariant "is gradually increasing in our region."
BA.2 is a different version of the omicron variant of COVID. According ...
Douglas County added 32 new COVID-19 cases from Monday to Wednesday, and the number of active cases in the community dropped by about 50 in that time, according to the latest statistics from Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health.
The county now has 317 active cases of COVID-19, down from 375 on Monday. Since March of 2020, the county has seen a total of 25,233 cases.
Four inpatients were hospitalized with ...
The Douglas County Commission is asking homeowners throughout the county to bear with it in the coming months, as they’ve recently learned the taxable value of their homes has increased by 15% on average and could potentially lead to a jump in property taxes later in the year.
Commissioners discussed that issue — and got a general overview of the Douglas County Appraiser’s Office and its work — at the ...
The Douglas County Commission at its Wednesday meeting will decide whether to approve reauthorizing Baldwin City’s Neighborhood Revitalization Program.
According to a memo to the commission from Baldwin City Administrator Glenn Rodden, the program is intended to promote new construction and incentivize property owners to invest and improve their properties via a tax rebate program.
The Baldwin City Council ...
