Members of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission’s subcommittee formed to tackle revisions to the county’s regulations for wind farms are hosting a listening session with environmental health and noise experts Friday, and they’re inviting the public to attend.
The planning commission’s ad hoc committee will participate in a Q&A session with acoustical engineer Mark Bastasch and ...
Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center and Douglas County have confirmed that the county’s behavioral health crisis center is ready to begin a phased opening on Monday, starting with its front-of-house urgent care unit.
Bert Nash and the county announced April 10 as the official opening date Thursday afternoon, after the Douglas County Commission approved a lease and operating agreement with Bert Nash to ...
Story updated at 8:49 p.m. Wednesday, April 5:
By this time next week, the long wait for the doors to Douglas County’s behavioral health crisis center to open could finally be over.
The Douglas County Commission voted Wednesday night to approve a lease and operating agreement with Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center for the Treatment and Recovery Center of Douglas County, 1000 W. Second St. The lease is ...
Douglas County leaders this week could take one of the final steps in opening the county’s long-awaited behavioral health crisis center: authorizing county staff to sign a lease and operating agreement with Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center.
The Douglas County Commission is poised to do so at its meeting on Wednesday, according to the meeting agenda. While the county hadn’t, as of Tuesday, released ...
Folks from Lawrence who tuned in to watch “Wheel of Fortune” Tuesday night saw a contestant from right in their own backyard.
Dane Christensen, a University of Kansas junior studying business administration, appeared on the popular game show as part of its College Week programming. Christensen competed against students from the University of Arizona and Baylor University, and he walked away with $2,000 in ...
About eight months on from when Douglas County leaders earmarked the majority of the county’s $23.75 million in federal coronavirus pandemic aid, many of the funded projects are well underway — and some are even finished.
That’s according to an American Rescue Plan Act finance update that Douglas County management information analyst Brooke Sauer shared with county leaders late last month. The report ...
