Douglas County commissioners deferred voting to make it easier to remove a road’s minimum maintenance designation on Wednesday.
The proposed changes would allow county commissioners to remove a minimum maintenance designation – which is given to a public road that may only occasionally be used and doesn’t require regular maintenance – with a vote or resolution without a formal viewing of the road. ...
Democrat Ethan Spurling has won the District 4 seat on the Douglas County Commission, defeating a seated commissioner in both the primary and general elections, where the commissioner ran as a write-in candidate.
Spurling secured the general election win against Gene Dorsey, a Democrat, who is currently representing District 4. District 4 includes a small portion of southeastern Lawrence, Eudora and Eudora ...
Douglas County commissioners will be considering a change that would make it easier for them to remove a road’s minimum maintenance designation on Wednesday.
With county staff’s proposed changes, commissioners could remove a minimum maintenance designation — which is given to a public road that may only occasionally be used and doesn’t require regular maintenance — through a vote or resolution ...
Incumbent Patrick Kelly, a Democrat, will keep his seat on the Douglas County Commission after running unopposed in Tuesday’s election.
This will be Kelly’s third term on the County Commission's District 1. The district includes parts of northern, northwestern and central Lawrence. Kelly had received 9,918 votes as of 9:50 p.m. Tuesday, according to unofficial election results.
“For without a ...
Incumbent Erica Anderson will serve her second term on the Douglas County Commission after winning the District 5 race on Tuesday.
Anderson, a Democrat, had garnered 6,652 votes as of 9:50 p.m. Tuesday to win District 5, according to unofficial election results. The district includes a small portion of south Lawrence, southern Wakarusa Township, Baldwin City and Palmyra Township. Libertarian Kirsten Kuhn, ...
An election that will decide the winners for everything from U.S. senator to governor to county commissioners to township officials is entering its final stages.
Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday. The final day of voting follows a multi-week period of advance voting. In person advance voting ended at noon Monday, and Douglas County's top election official said the numbers were higher than a ...
