As part of United Way of Kaw Valley’s “Day of Giving” this week, Lawrence’s Roger Hill Volunteer Center is supporting a pair of community gardens in Douglas County — and interested volunteers will have opportunities in coming days to get their hands dirty for a good cause.
The center is facilitating volunteer work projects at the Eudora Giving Garden, 545 West 20th St. in Eudora, and Lawrence’s ...
It’s been more than four years since the Cultural Center and Museum on Haskell Indian Nations University’s campus has been fully open to the public, but that streak will soon come to an end.
The campus center has been open by appointment only through Haskell’s Office of the President since 2019, when the grant funding its operations expired. It’ll now be making a return to hosting regular weekday hours ...
Updated at 1:15 p.m. Friday, June 2
Heartland Community Health Center announced a $3 million expansion project to its psychiatry and behavioral health care services Friday, including plans to break ground on an 8,000-square-foot building designated to house those services.
According to a press release issued Friday morning, Heartland plans for a new building to be located directly east of its current facility ...
Savion, the Kansas City energy company behind a proposed 1,000-acre solar energy facility just north of Lawrence, still has yet to file an application with Lawrence-Douglas County planners for the project, but on Thursday the leaders behind it said they plan to do so later this summer.
The company — in partnership with Evergy, which would build, own and operate the facility if an application were approved — ...
Marilyn Russell is just the 32nd recipient of the highest honor bestowed by the Art Libraries Society of North America, but she can count herself among even more elite company in that already top-notch group.
Though Russell, a former library director at Haskell Indian Nations University, had been retired for about a decade, she received the society’s Distinguished Service Award last month in Mexico City. The ...
The Douglas County Commission won’t be meeting again until midway through June.
Typically, commissioners take a week off from meeting during months that have five Wednesdays, meaning there is no meeting set for May 31. But county leaders also will not meet the following Wednesday, June 7.
As for that meeting, Douglas County Administrator Sarah Plinsky told the Journal-World Tuesday that it was called off ...
