Community members rallied outside prior to Monday’s Lawrence school board meeting after months of concern around the potential closure of neighborhood schools. The crowd on hand was sizable, despite the temperature's steady drop as the sun set. Students, parents and teachers — and at one point, Superintendent Anthony Lewis — milled around in the area outside both entrances to the Lawrence Public Schools ...
It’s a busy time for the Douglas County Heritage Conservation Council, as the council opened applications for its 2022 Natural and Cultural Grant program and welcomes a new program coordinator this month. The grant program, now in its 11th year, focuses on the conservation of cultural, natural, agricultural or environmental resources, or projects that produce educational programs or products on these ...
The Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence is set to honor three candidates at the 2022 Youth of the Year ceremony this week. The event, set for 7 p.m. Thursday at Liberty Hall, “celebrates the life-long relationships that kids develop with the Boys & Girls Club,” a news release from the club reads. This year’s nominees for the award are Free State High School freshman Ohene Danso, Lawrence High School ...
Douglas County added another coronavirus death Monday, but the number of new cases reported to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health since its last update is significantly lower than the number added between previous recent reports. The county’s latest death was a man in the 65-74 age category and brings the total number of deaths since March of 2020 to 121. Meanwhile, the number of new COVID-19 cases added ...
The Lawrence school board heard nearly an hour and a half of public comments at its Monday meeting, which was packed with community members against proposed closures that will potentially shutter some eastern and central Lawrence schools. The high meeting attendance was due in part to a rally that took place immediately prior to the meeting’s 6 p.m. start time. During that rally, community members advocated ...
Douglas County added more than 800 new cases of COVID-19 over the past two days and also reported another COVID-19 death, according to the latest statistics from Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. There have been 846 new COVID-19 cases reported to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health since Wednesday, according to the latest data released Friday afternoon. That brings the county’s cumulative case count ...