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 ...
Story updated at 5:52 p.m. Thursday, June 22: Heartland Community Health Center will soon officially be the main community hub for folks in need of family planning services. Heartland CEO Julie Branstrom confirmed to the Journal-World Wednesday that the clinic will be awarded the Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s Title X Family Planning grant sometime in July, taking over for Lawrence-Douglas ...
The years-long discussion about whether to impose a community ban on single-use plastic bags will continue at least a while longer after a pair of Lawrence city commissioners voiced concerns about its impact on local businesses and the logistics of hiring an additional city employee to enforce it. Commissioners Brad Finkeldei and Amber Sellers, who are both running for reelection this year as their terms on the ...
Lawrence city leaders on Tuesday heard three hours of public comment from more than 70 residents urging them to adopt an ordinance making Lawrence a sanctuary city for transgender, nonbinary and gender nonconforming folks. A group of residents presented the Lawrence City Commission with an ordinance they’d drafted themselves that would codify protections against anti-transgender laws like SB 180, which bans ...
More than $31 million in improvements at Lawrence’s Kansas River Wastewater Treatment Plant, a $5.9 million reconfiguration project at City Hall and more are included among the roughly $120 million in projects funded for next year in the City of Lawrence’s latest five-year Capital Improvement Plan. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission is set to discuss the 2024-2028 CIP, which ...
Last weekend in Lawrence, a group of family members descended from the freed slave who for a time operated the only tannery in Kansas, McCarter Byrd, met in person for the first time. The roughly 30 folks who congregated in Lawrence came from far and wide — from places like California, Florida, Nebraska and Illinois — to connect with and get to know the community that they’ve now discovered is an ...