The Treatment and Recovery Center of Douglas County named a new director Friday. Bri Harmon-Moore, who has been serving as the facility’s program manager, will begin her new duties as director starting Sunday. The TRC is operated by Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center and has been providing services since April. A Bert Nash spokesperson confirmed to the Journal-World that Dr. Cord Huston, who has been ...
The Community Children’s Center is already a leader in early-childhood care in Douglas County, and a new regional network for child-care providers will give the nonprofit a chance to make an impact on an even broader scale. Gov. Laura Kelly’s office announced earlier this week that the Community Children’s Center was one of five organizations selected to serve as lead providers for the state’s new ...
A student at Haskell Indian Nations University says that though she has made dozens of reports about alleged sexual abuse on Haskell’s campus, her pleas for support have fallen on deaf ears. Now, Tierra Thomas is speaking out and hopes that by doing so she’ll be able to encourage other victims to also come forward. Thomas has been corresponding with the Journal-World via email for the past week, after ...
The candidates vying for three seats on the Lawrence City Commission shared their visions Wednesday for housing development, density and more. The candidate forum, which was not open to the public, was largely housing-focused since it was hosted by the Lawrence Board of Realtors and the Lawrence Home Builders Association. Five of the candidates running in the November general election — incumbents Brad ...
With nearly a dozen candidates running for seats on the Lawrence school board in the upcoming general election, the first forum featuring all of them Wednesday evening at the Lawrence Public Library was also a first chance to hear where many of them stand on a number of issues. All 11 candidates — incumbents Shannon Kimball, Carole Cadue-Blackwood and Ronald “G.R.” Gordon-Ross, along with newcomers ...
Story updated at 11:12 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19: Lawrence Mayor Lisa Larsen asked a lengthy list of pointed questions, including some about why the city isn’t enforcing a no-camping ordinance, and local business leaders criticized the city for a lack of action to address the issue of homelessness during Tuesday’s Lawrence City Commission meeting. Larsen asked city staff 20 minutes’ worth of questions at ...