At 81, Baldwin City native Glenn Rockers can recount a lifetime of hard work that shaped the man he is today — and now, he can also count himself as one of just a handful of folks who have earned a prestigious award recognizing such efforts. Rockers, a successful excavator, recently received the Kansas Land Improvement Contractors Association’s lifetime achievement award. He’s one of only three people ...
A former Haskell Indian Nations University president has filed a complaint with the Office of Special Counsel in Washington, D.C., alleging “corruption, serial malfeasance, criminal misconduct and administrative wrongdoing” at the Bureau of Indian Education and on campus during his tenure. The former president, Ronald Graham, submitted the complaint Monday. The Office of Special Counsel is an independent ...
In 2020, the percentage of deaths due to COVID-19 in Douglas County was less than the rates for both the U.S. and Kansas. That’s according to a data brief from Dee Kinard, a senior analyst with Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, which compares the 2020 leading causes of death for Douglas County with the U.S. and Kansas, examines how COVID-19 may have directly or indirectly affected trends in overall ...
Another pandemic relief program has come to an end, and the leader of Just Food expects that Lawrence will be profoundly affected. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress increased Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits through emergency allotments to help mitigate the country’s hunger crisis. But in Kansas, along with 31 other states and three U.S. territories, SNAP benefits — formerly known as ...
It's not yet clear what the next draft of Douglas County’s revised regulations for wind energy development will look like, but it is clear that the work to codify the updated rules is far from finished. At a meeting on Monday, the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission discussed some of the changes it wanted to see in the second draft of that document. The conversation came about a month and a half ...
Story updated at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 22: Although Douglas County leaders have yet to officially decide who will operate the county’s yet-to-open behavioral health crisis center, the plan is for it to be partially open in a matter of weeks. That’s according to information about the Treatment and Recovery Center of Douglas County that county staff shared during Wednesday’s Douglas County Commission ...