The Lawrence Community Shelter Board of Directors on Thursday authorized the shelter’s director to establish a line of credit of up to half a million dollars on behalf of the shelter.
At Thursday’s board of directors meeting, board members voted 5-0 — with board members Christina Gentry and Elizabeth Keever absent — to allow LCS Executive Director James Chiselom to open a line of credit on behalf of ...
The manager of The Village — the community of 64-square-foot cabins for people experiencing homelessness operated by the Lawrence Community Shelter — stepped down earlier this month, the Journal-World has learned.
On Thursday, LCS Executive Director James Chiselom confirmed to the Journal-World that community manager Juniper Gapetz submitted her resignation about a week and a half ago on May 13, after ...
After almost two years of work, a consolidated draft of the revised rules for how Lawrence should grow is finally available.
The City of Lawrence and an associated steering committee have been working to update the Land Development Code for the first time since 2006, a process that started in August 2022. Though there have been plenty of amendments to the code in the time since then, the rewrite that’s ...
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran’s office has received a response to a letter sent last month calling for “systemic overhaul” of the federal office that oversees Haskell Indian Nations University — but not from the leader he sought answers from.
Moran, R-Kansas, sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland in late April highlighting the “urgent need” for overhaul within two Interior offices ...
A Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical fire engine was temporarily taken out of service Thursday due to recent changes to the department’s daily staffing minimums.
The Journal-World has learned that LDCFM authorized a minimum daily staffing reduction in early May, lowering the department’s daily minimum staffing level of first responders from 39 to 36. While Seamus Albritton, the president of the local ...
The Haskell National Board of Regents is voicing opposition to development in the Wakarusa River floodplain, calling it a “continued assault on Haskell’s historic Wakarusa Wetlands,” and it has requested that Baker University return the wetlands to Haskell Indian Nations University.
The board of regents addressed those issues in a letter sent to Baker University, the developers of the sprawling New ...
