The lifespan of Evergy’s Lawrence power plant was extended this week until at least 2028.
In a reversal of course, the integrated resource plan the electric utility filed with Kansas and Missouri regulators on Thursday proposes moving the retirement date for Lawrence Energy Center’s coal unit to 2028. The plan also calls for converting another unit in the plant from coal to natural gas power by 2028.
Both ...
Joshua Olafson, an audio-visual project engineer who’s lived in Lawrence for the past decade, has filed to run for the Lawrence City Commission.
Olafson works as a project engineer with AVI-SPL, an audio-visual integration company. He’s been with the company for about eight years and moved to Lawrence from Colorado Springs in 2013. Before he started his current role, Olafson’s work involved installing AV ...
Outgoing Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health director Dan Partridge had plenty to reflect on as he neared the end of his last day of work before retirement.
After all, he’s led the health department for well over 16 years since starting in the role in January of 2007, and more recent years have included the complicated task of successfully navigating a global pandemic. Thursday marked, in Partridge’s ...
No performance was taking place at the Lied Center around midday Wednesday, but plenty of excitement was afoot as the center received a special delivery.
Until early July, the Lied Center will be the temporary home of a brand new portable organ — an instrument that’s never been played on the Lied Center’s main stage. The organ is on loan from Oregon’s Rodgers Organ Company, and it arrived at the center ...
Ariel Miner, the mother of four students enrolled in Lawrence schools and a member of a grassroots campaign advocating for fully funded public education in Kansas, has filed for election to the Lawrence school board.
Miner grew up in Tonganoxie and most recently has worked as a substitute teacher in four area school districts. She told the Journal-World she’s been interested in getting certified to teach ...
Without much fanfare, Douglas County leaders on Wednesday approved a $1.2 million reimbursement request from the nonprofit that previously hoped to operate the county’s new behavioral health crisis center.
The request came from Behavioral Health Partners Inc., the nonprofit formed by LMH Health and Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center with the intent of operating the Treatment and Recovery Center of ...
