Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday approved a site plan for improvements to a golf complex, which will include a new and bigger clubhouse with indoor tee boxes and a restaurant.
The site plan is for Twin Oaks Golf Complex, 1326 East 1900 Road, and the plans involve building a nearly 14,000-square-foot building on the site to replace the existing clubhouse, which will be demolished as part of the plans ...
Douglas County commissioners this week will consider a site plan for a significant expansion of a golf complex, including a bigger clubhouse with indoor tee boxes and a restaurant.
On Wednesday, county commissioners will consider approving the site plan for Twin Oaks Golf Complex at 1326 East 1900 Road, the first K-10 interchange east of Lawrence. As the Journal-World reported, the plan is to build a nearly ...
The Douglas County District Attorney’s Office wants the county to allocate more than $215,000 in its 2026 budget for two positions — positions it says are necessary to lighten the heavy caseload on its attorneys.
On Tuesday, during the Douglas County Commission’s second day of budget hearings, District Attorney Dakota Loomis presented the funding requests for two full-time positions at his office. The ...
Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center is seeking over $2.3 million in additional funding from Douglas County to maintain current service levels through 2026, but county commissioners raised several questions about the requests.
Bert Nash has faced financial difficulties in 2025 and is currently projected to end the year with a loss of approximately $2.1 million. A couple of weeks ago, former CEO Patrick ...
When Benjamin Patterson stood at the grave of a 23-year-old World War II combat engineer from North Lawrence, he didn’t just see a name etched in white marble — he saw a life he had spent months uncovering.
Since January, Patterson, a rising senior, and Sonja Czarnecki, a social studies teacher at Bishop Seabury Academy, have been researching World War II veteran Carl Spitzer, and their research culminated ...
Douglas County commissioners will begin their budget hearings for the 2026 budget next week, reviewing dozens of additional funding requests from local agencies and departments.
County staff is proposing a $191.4 million budget for 2026 that holds the property tax rate flat at 41.298 mills — one mill is one dollar per $1,000 of a property’s assessed value. A homeowner with a $600,000 property would pay ...
