Douglas County leaders this week are set to hear from a number of partner agencies about their ongoing sustainability initiatives.
The Douglas County Commission will meet with leaders from agencies such as the Douglas County Historical Society, Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area, the Black Jack Battlefield Trust and more as part of a work session this Wednesday. They’re part of a group of seven ...
Though Easter Sunday was over, the trees outside an apartment building on New Hampshire Street were still adorned with dozens of colorful plastic Easter eggs on Tuesday morning.
They’ve turned into something of a memorial for Alex Van Buren, the man who hung them there. Van Buren, who died of cancer in early April, was known for putting on the festive display each year, and his friends say it was more than ...
Savion, a Kansas City-based energy company, is proposing a 1,000-acre solar energy facility just north of Lawrence, the Journal-World learned Tuesday afternoon.
A website for the project, dubbed the “Kansas Sky Energy Center,” notes that the company has secured 1,103 acres for the project about a mile north of the city. The website says the project’s design calls for 828 acres of the project to be located ...
The doors to Douglas County’s Treatment and Recovery Center opened for the first time Monday morning, and patients are benefiting already.
After months of negotiations, Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center and Douglas County agreed on a lease and operating agreement for the facility at 1000 W. Second St. — right behind LMH Health — last week. Bert Nash CEO Patrick Schmitz told the Journal-World Monday ...
By the end of the spring semester, students at Peaslee Tech will have finished building a home that will be ready and waiting to be lived in.
As part of a brand-new class, Peaslee students are partnering with Tenants to Homeowners to build small homes from the ground up in their classroom space — including installing plumbing, electricity, heating and air conditioning. The homes then will be towed to sites in ...
Renovations to LMH Health’s emergency department waiting room are set to begin early next week.
Starting Tuesday, April 11, construction to increase the waiting room’s capacity will commence at LMH Health’s 325 Maine St. campus, and the hospital announced Thursday that means hospital visitors will need to be aware when navigating the ongoing work. The hospital and clinics won’t be accessible via the ...
