Free State High School’s Encore variety show is on tap this week, and the school’s choir program is hoping to draw plenty of applause as it celebrates the 25th anniversary of the annual performance.
Upperclassmen in Free State’s choir program will put on shows at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. This will mark the 25th year since Free State’s first Encore performance during the spring of 1998. It'll ...
Douglas County leaders will hear another update about the county’s yet-to-open behavioral health crisis center this week, and it’s expected to include something that members of the public have been asking about for much of the past year — a concrete timeline for opening.
That topic and a number of other details related to the Treatment and Recovery Center of Douglas County will be part of an update from ...
About a month after LMH Health formed a strategic clinical relationship with the University of Kansas Health System, the two entities have announced a new health care collaboration dedicated to sports medicine.
The program, dubbed Kansas Sports Medicine, is intended to provide care to athletes of all ages and skill levels, according to a news release from LMH Health on Tuesday afternoon. It will be a joint ...
Douglas County officials are warning the public of a fraudulent mailer threatening to seize assets and garnish wages and bank accounts due to an alleged unpaid tax liability.
Social media posts on forums dedicated to news and events in Douglas County from over the weekend called attention to a mailing issued by a “J.S. Brown” from a “Benefits Suspension Unit” for the county, which does not exist. The ...
Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health’s search for its next director is moving into the active recruitment stage, but the tentative timeline may mean the health department’s board has to come up with an interim leader to serve as a representative during the looming city and county budget processes.
The health department’s current director, Dan Partridge, announced his intent to retire last November, ...
While Lawrence High School sophomore Arabella Gipp didn’t come away with the 2023 Kansas Youth of the Year title, she can count herself among rare company as the most recent competitor to represent Lawrence in the event in back-to-back years.
Gipp was the winner of Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence’s 2023 Youth of the Year award, and she had a chance to compete for the statewide title — which she won in ...
