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 ...
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Just Food Executive Director Elizabeth Keever plans to step away from her role in May, the Just Food board of directors announced Tuesday morning.
Keever will depart to take the chief development officer role at Heartland Community Health Center. She’ll remain Just Food’s executive director until May 15 to assist with the transition to the next executive director.
Keever has ...
Another Douglas County building, the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center, has dropped its mask requirement starting this week.
An administrative order making the change official was signed Monday morning, Chief Judge James R. McCabria told the Journal-World via email. Most other county buildings dropped their mask requirements last week. With Monday’s change at the Judicial Center, only the Douglas County ...
With COVID cases declining, a new branch of Douglas County Unified Command is set to begin a pandemic recovery phase in the coming months, and that will include lessening the frequency of coronavirus data reporting and reworking Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health’s community transmission indicator tool, among other goals.
That transition comes as Douglas County reaches the end of a significant COVID spike, ...
Douglas County's COVID transmission levels have officially entered the “green” zone, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health.
The latest COVID data from the health department posted Friday afternoon notes that the county’s average daily case count, based on a 14-day moving average, has dropped to 18; active cases have fallen by about 100 since Wednesday and now number 460.
With the moving ...
Douglas County further clarified mask requirements at public county buildings via social media Thursday.
While face masks will continue to be required at a few buildings due to federal regulations and other standards, other county buildings won’t require masks any longer. That change immediately follows the expiration of the county’s public health order that had mandated that masks be worn by anyone age 2 ...
