Haskell Indian Nations University is set to host a traffic safety event Thursday, meant to educate students about the dangers of driving while impaired or distracted. The event is set to run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Haskell’s campus in the Student Union, 155 E. Indian Ave. From noon to 12:30 p.m., speakers from the U.S. and Kansas departments of transportation, the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Indian Highway ...
An influx of federal grant funding intended to address rural homelessness throughout the state was recognized Wednesday in Lawrence, but the city and Douglas County as a whole will stand to benefit more directly from a different resource besides money alone — housing vouchers. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced that the Kansas Balance of State, the largest state entity addressing ...
People who are looking for an especially active way to stretch their philanthropic muscles will soon have a good opportunity. The social service agency Van Go is gearing up to host its “May Day Hey Day” fundraiser on May 6. The annual event invites community members to “walk, ride, roll and run” along the Lawrence Loop in East Lawrence and end their trek with an outdoor party at Van Go, 715 New Jersey ...
Lawrence High School’s choral department will present its annual "Showtime" variety show this week. Shows are scheduled for Thursday through Saturday. Doors open for general admission seating at 7 p.m. each night. Save for a two-year pause during the coronavirus pandemic, "Showtime" has been produced every year since 1974. Dwayne Dunn, Lawrence High’s director of choral activities, told the Journal-World ...
Douglas County leaders this week could authorize a funding boost that would allow local social safety net nonprofit DCCCA to implement an integrated distribution project designed to enhance local access to the overdose-reversing drug naloxone. At Wednesday’s Douglas County Commission meeting, commissioners will consider amending DCCCA’s community partner agreement for 2023 to add upward of $47,570 for the ...
As the Lawrence school district prepares to close two of its school buildings, two of Douglas County’s other public school districts seem to be moving in the opposite direction. The Eudora and Baldwin City school districts are poised to ask voters to approve multimillion-dollar bond issues in an upcoming special election and, in part, both proposals call for the districts to add to their existing building ...