A Lawrence student has been named a recipient of the prestigious Princeton Prize in Race Relations — the culmination of what she describes as years of fostering important conversations with her peers about equity.
The honor "overjoyed" Soledad Edison to the point that she was "literally physically jumping up and down" when she heard about it, she said.
Edison, a junior at Free State High School, won the ...
After residents of the unincorporated community of Clearfield — located 9 miles northeast of Baldwin City — filed a petition earlier this week to be incorporated as a city, Douglas County officials are working on the next steps in that process.
The next substantial step is a hearing before the Douglas County Commission; commissioners set that hearing for June 15 at Wednesday’s commission meeting. Before ...
Residents of the unincorporated community of Clearfield in Douglas County have filed a petition in hope of being incorporated as a city, Douglas County commissioners heard at their meeting Wednesday.
Clearfield is an existing unincorporated community in Douglas County located 9 miles northeast of Baldwin City within Palmyra Township. The proposed incorporated city limits, however, would be within five miles of ...
Douglas County leaders indicated Wednesday that they’d like to continue to consider how land in the county could be used for solar power generation and agriculture simultaneously, but they had some concerns about the technical challenges that could arise in such a system.
At a study session on Wednesday, the Douglas County Commission heard from a panel of guests who explained how that concept, called ...
A Lawrence middle-schooler is set to represent Kansas this summer in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., after outspelling 86 other kids in the state competition.
Eli Cokelet, an eighth-grader at Liberty Memorial Central Middle School, won the Kansas Press Association’s Sunflower State Spelling Bee Saturday at Newman University in Wichita.
“It’s definitely a very exciting experience ...
A few weeks after Douglas County leaders discussed a set of draft regulations for solar farms, they're set to learn about how land could be used for both solar power generation and agriculture at the same time.
Before their meeting on Wednesday, county commissioners will have a work session about the draft regulations, which advanced out of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission at the end of February ...
