Lawrence school board members will hear an update from district staff on Monday about how new restrictions on cellphone use have been implemented in Lawrence’s high schools. As the Journal-World has reported, school board members approved a new cellphone policy for high school students which banned their use during instructional time, and it went into effect in January. The goal of the policy was to improve ...
When you pass by a tanker truck on a highway, sometimes diamond-shaped cards can be seen indicating what hazardous materials they are carrying. These are called hazmat cards, which are color-coded and identify the types of hazardous materials a truck is transporting, helping emergency responders quickly assess what kind of danger the materials might pose. Next year, Douglas County’s Emergency Management ...
DCCCA on Thursday celebrated the groundbreaking for a $4.2 million transitional housing project as part of a campaign to support women in recovery and their children in Douglas County. Members of the public joined DCCCA staff for the groundbreaking ceremony for the transitional housing project, which will provide temporary housing to women and their children. CEO of DCCCA Lori Alvarado told the crowd on ...
Around a dozen people gathered in North Lawrence on Wednesday to protest against actions by President Donald Trump as part of a nationwide movement that sought to organize demonstrations in all 50 states. Carrying signs with messages such as "No Trump, No KKK, No fascism in the USA" and "Resist tyranny" as well as a rainbow flag for LGBTQ+ rights, the protesters gathered at the stop light at North Second and ...
County leaders voted Wednesday to let the city-county health department opt out of doing annual sanitary inspections at schools, stating they wanted the agency to focus on different kinds of inspections that aren't already being done by other agencies. On Wednesday, the commission unanimously approved the resolution that would exempt Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health from the state requirement of inspecting ...
To "reduce the regulatory burden" on its inspectors, the city-county health department wants to exempt itself from having to do annual sanitary inspections at Douglas County's schools, where it says its work is duplicated by other agencies. Kansas statute requires local health officers to, "upon the opening of the fall term of school, make a sanitary inspection of each school building and grounds." But it was ...