As part of the Trump administration's sweeping cuts, the federal government has canceled a lease at the U.S. Department of Agriculture service office in Lawrence and laid off all of the Natural Resources Conservation Service employees in a six-county region.
Both of these developments were mentioned in a letter that Douglas County commissioners were sending to representatives in Congress this week, asking them ...
Douglas County commissioners approved a site plan to help open up burials once again at a cemetery that hasn’t hosted a burial in over 100 years.
On Wednesday, county commissioners greenlit a site plan for improving the existing Franklin Cemetery, which was last used for burials in 1918. The property is maintained by the Knights of Columbus organization with the St. John’s Catholic Church, and the plans ...
Updated at 10:24 a.m. Wednesday, March 12
When health leaders in Lawrence unveiled their five-year community health plan last fall, they proposed giving low-income single mothers in Douglas County a helping hand — by providing a monthly stipend to use for whatever they needed, no strings attached.
It’s called a guaranteed income program, and more and more cities are starting to experiment with them across ...
To help very low-income residents maintain stable housing, Douglas County and two nonprofits hope to create a pool of funding to assist them with rent, utilities and other financial needs, a project that could take a step forward this week.
The program is called a "flexible housing pool," and it would be a collaborative effort between the county, the Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority and Bert Nash ...
Longer days and extra days are among the changes coming to the Lawrence school district calendar after nearly two weeks worth of classes were canceled this year for winter weather.
On Monday, Lawrence school board members received another update on how nearly two weeks’ worth of winter weather cancellations have affected the district’s class time for the 2024-2025 school year. The designated make-up ...
A public commenter who has been frequently attending Lawrence school board meetings was escorted out of the meeting for refusing to obey board rules.
Carrie Schmidt, who resides in Johnson County, has attended the last several Lawrence school board meetings protesting against the district’s public comment policy. She has also read obscenities and sexually explicit material to board members, saying the books ...
