When Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health’s retiring director, Dan Partridge, leaves his role this June, his short-term replacement will be a familiar face.
The Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health board voted Monday night to appoint the health department’s current director of informatics, Sonia Jordan, as interim director effective June 16 — the day after Partridge is set to retire — until the board ...
As far as Steve Pierce knows, he's likely the only person to have run all 520 miles of gravel road in Douglas County. Soon, folks will be able to get a sense of what that peculiar accomplishment was like.
That’s because Pierce, of Baldwin City, has written a book documenting the experience: “Running Douglas County.” The first-time author’s work will be available on his website and at two Lawrence ...
Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health’s regular coronavirus updates are coming to an end after this month.
The health department will no longer report community COVID-19 data once per week, ending the local data tracking it’s been performing since March of 2020. The change coincides with President Joe Biden’s decision to sign off on a bipartisan congressional resolution earlier this week ending the U.S. ...
Kansas City energy company Savion has been leasing land and doing prep work for a proposed 1,000-acre solar energy facility just north of Lawrence since 2021, and an application for the project could be submitted to the Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Commission as early as June.
Those new details and more were shared with members of the public who live near the proposed project area for the ...
The City of Lawrence and Douglas County next week are set to host the first of a handful of community meetings intended to gather input about a draft plan to address homelessness in the county.
The meeting is set for April 20 from noon to 1:30 p.m. and will take place via Zoom. Folks who want to learn more about the draft plan and find the link to join the Zoom meeting can visit the City of Lawrence’s ...
Historical societies in Douglas County are starting to think about how they can work together in new ways and reach more students and underrepresented groups in the community.
That was the message from Douglas County Historical Society Executive Director Steve Nowak at a work session with the Douglas County Commission on Wednesday afternoon. Nowak and members of the county’s Heritage Conservation Council were ...
