The chapter of Lawrence's city code responsible for creating the local register of historic places and establishing the Lawrence Historic Resources Commission will soon get its first update in more than three decades, and city planning staff hopes those changes will make the code clearer and more streamlined.
The Conservation of Historic Resources Code was first adopted nearly 35 years ago in late 1988, and the ...
There may be plenty of unforgettable sights on the more than 2,000-mile journey along the Appalachian Trail, but a Tonganoxie man who’s currently hiking the full distance has found that the people he’s met along the way have been an even bigger highlight.
As the Journal-World reported in January, Dan Yunghans, a 51-year-old Army veteran, was at the time gearing up to set out along one of America’s longest ...
A government watchdog nonprofit is trying to obtain a report of an investigation into a number of alleged crimes on Haskell Indian Nations University’s campus, and it’s prepared to file a lawsuit to get the agency that oversees Haskell’s operations to stop withholding the document.
In late June, the Journal-World learned that Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility — a nonprofit agency that ...
As the familiar saying goes, it takes a village to raise a child. The folks behind one Lawrence nonprofit have taken that message to heart in their efforts to support foster children and their caregivers.
Foster Village Lawrence is an affiliate chapter of a nonprofit that first launched in Austin, Texas, back in 2016. Whether in Lawrence or elsewhere, Foster Village’s goals are to equip foster caregivers with ...
A new day care center space that’s in the works to help reduce Douglas County’s shortage in child care openings could take another step toward opening next week.
At its Monday meeting, the Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Commission will consider approving a special use permit for day care center use submitted by engineering firm Bartlett & West on behalf of the Community Children’s ...
Teamsters Local Union No. 696, the union representing the City of Lawrence’s solid waste and Municipal Services and Operations employees, filed a petition this week against the city in Douglas County District Court.
The petition alleges that city officials obstructed efforts to process grievances, refused to discuss working conditions in good faith and seemed to take a number of actions to retaliate against ...
