Updated at 12:28 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 20 The cause of a fire that damaged a home in North Lawrence early Wednesday morning is under investigation by Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical. No one was injured in the overnight emergency. Police and firefighters were called to the house at 712 Locust St. at 1:37 a.m. Wednesday, and initial reports indicated there were visible flames on the house’s porch, as the ...
After a meeting that extended into the early hours of Tuesday morning, the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission was divided on whether to recommend approval of a permit for the first commercial-scale solar energy facility in Douglas County. The Planning Commission ended up in a split 4-4 vote on the conditional use permit for the Kansas Sky Energy Center project, a 1,105-acre solar energy facility ...
Lawrence leaders voted unanimously Tuesday night to approve nearly $2.7 million in city funding for the Lawrence Community Shelter for 2024 as part of another updated funding agreement. The Lawrence City Commission approved $2,677,696 in funding to be disbursed to the shelter on a quarterly basis next year, which will help fund the shelter’s capacity for winter emergency sheltering and operations at “The ...
Much has been said in Lawrence meeting rooms over the past two years about the potential for large-scale renewable energy development in Douglas County. But on Monday, the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission will be considering whether to take the most tangible step yet in clearing a path for such development to actually take place. The Planning Commission will be considering a conditional use permit ...
The Lawrence Community Shelter Board of Directors is still working toward finalizing another new proposed funding agreement with the City of Lawrence, with sights set on doing so by Monday. The board voted unanimously Thursday night to authorize its executive committee to finalize an agreement between the shelter and the City of Lawrence by then, in time for it to be included on the agenda for Tuesday’s ...
In a statement Wednesday afternoon, LMH Health announced that it’s already made several changes — and will make more in the coming months — in the wake of an analysis examining how the hospital’s former CFO was hired despite having failed to disclose that he was a convicted felon and had legally changed his name in the past year. As the Journal-World reported, Mike Rogers, who served as LMH Health’s ...