More than 100 kids from low-income households got a free pair of shoes for the new school year at a special giveaway on Saturday at the Lawrence school district's headquarters.
Ahead of the school year, which began this past week, guidance counselors worked to identify families facing financial hardship and gave them vouchers to use for the shoe giveaway, said Dena Johnston, executive director of the Lawrence ...
State Rep. Dennis "Boog" Highberger was honored with an open government award from the Lawrence-Douglas County chapter of the League of Women Voters on Saturday.
According to a news release from the chapter, Highberger received the annual Helen Fluker Open and Accessible Government Award at a luncheon at Brandon Woods. The award, now in its 24th year, is given to a Douglas County resident who displays ...
Douglas County commissioners have now joined other local governments in approving tax incentives for a project that would redevelop a building in downtown Lawrence — after a developer told them the story of why the building had sat vacant for more than a decade.
On Wednesday the commission voted 2-1, with Commissioner Shannon Reid opposed, to approve the incentives for the project at Seventh and New Hampshire ...
The Lawrence school district on Tuesday hosted a kind of academic pep rally — touting its aspiration to be the best in the nation — to kick off the 2023-24 school year, which gets underway Thursday with the first full day of K-12 classes.
The kickoff at the Lied Center was tied to the launch of the district's Character Strong curriculum. As the Journal-World has reported, Character Strong emphasizes the ...
Now that tax incentives for redeveloping a long-vacant building in downtown Lawrence have been narrowly approved by the City Commission and the school board, the Douglas County Commission could soon give the last major approval needed to move the project forward.
At its meeting on Wednesday, the County Commission is scheduled to vote on the incentives for the project at Seventh and New Hampshire streets, the ...
Despite an expected increase in operating revenue for the upcoming school year, the Lawrence school board opted to move forward with a budget that includes a slight hike in property tax rates.
At Monday night's business meeting, the board set its maximum spending authority and mill levy for 2023-24.
The closure of two elementary schools and steady staffing reductions, coupled with other budget-cutting ...
