Lawrence’s Common Ground program — a community gardening and urban agriculture program with nearly a dozen garden spaces around the city — has a new leader at the helm and multiple goals to pursue.
The New Common Ground program manager, Umut Bayramoglu, stepped into her role just last week. She told the Journal-World from her new space in Douglas County's Sustainability Office, 1006 New Hampshire St., ...
The Lawrence City Commission at its meeting Tuesday will consider whether to allow a St. Louis-based construction firm to receive a sales tax exemption on the construction materials for a planned assisted living and memory care facility.
If approved, the firm — Dover Development — will be issued up to $17 million in industrial revenue bonds, and the city will forgo future sales tax revenues on project ...
Though the number of new coronavirus cases in Douglas County has remained low this week, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health has added a third COVID death to the toll.
The death that was listed Friday — a man in the 55-64 age category — took place in December 2021. According to the health department’s update, death information is updated periodically as the Kansas Department of Health and ...
Douglas County opened the next phase of its American Rescue Plan Act funding request process this week.
The county began accepting grant applications Tuesday, with about $21 million in coronavirus relief funding left to allocate to agencies for qualifying expenditures occurring between March 3, 2021, and Dec. 31, 2024. The deadline for submitting an application is Monday, May 2, at 5 p.m.
The process kicked ...
Several Douglas County agencies are partnering to host a workshop about mental illness and addiction resources this weekend.
The free workshop is set to take place from 9:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 19, at the Flory Meeting Hall on the Douglas County Fairgrounds, 2120 Harper St. in Lawrence. According to the event flyer, the workshop is meant to help people learn how to navigate local resources on mental ...
From 2017 to 2019, Black people's mortality rate from diabetes in Douglas County was about four times as high as white people's. Black infants in Douglas County are more likely than white infants to have a low birth weight. And during the COVID pandemic, Native American residents of Douglas County had a higher hospitalization rate for their share of the population than any other racial group.
Those are some of ...
