A county-hired consultant anticipates a $1.4 million to $2.2 million wage gap for county employees, and county commissioners on Wednesday will be briefed on how those employees might need to be paid more in the future.
McGrath, a human resource group, has put together a draft report that examines how county employee wages compare to average wages for similar jobs in the broader region surrounding Lawrence. The ...
The Lawrence school district on Monday heard from several teachers about the cell phone policy for the middle schools and high schools. They came with a petition signed by 84 of their peers in the hopes of making changes to the district’s policy.
The policy, “which leaves room for teacher discretion and requires some (cellphones) to simply be, ‘put away and out of sight,’ is problematic,” said ...
The Lawrence school board could soon authorize a study of the district's middle and high school athletic facilities to determine what kinds of repairs and improvements they will need in the future.
According to the agenda for its meeting on Monday, the school board will be considering an athletic facilities master planning study for the four middle schools and two high schools. The study would be conducted by ...
At the Kansas Land Trust’s annual fundraising event, the organization announced the goal to close on three conservation easements by the end of the summer.
On Thursday, the Kansas Land Trust hosted its Summer Solstice Celebration at Cider Gallery to raise funds and awareness for the 30-year-old nonprofit. The organization works with willing landowners to develop voluntary conservation agreements to preserve ...
A future Lawrence-based center that will provide mental health care and substance abuse treatment to children has its first director, which puts it on track for a 2026 opening.
Kristin Vernon, a licensed specialist clinical social worker, has been hired to become the first director of the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center’s youth recovery center, which will open in the former healthcare building near ...
It's not surprising that a retired university faculty member who's written a lot about water issues might write a book that starts in a dry riverbed.
What might be surprising: the human hand a couple of girls find in the riverbed.
That mystery, and a western Kansas county sheriff's quest to crack it, are the premise of "The Illusion of Simple" by Charles Jones, the retired director of KU’s Public Management ...
