Douglas County commissioners learned on Wednesday that only around 72% of the federal funding they distributed through the American Rescue Plan Act has been utilized, and they approved measures to maximize the money's impact before the end-of-the-year deadline to spend it.
In July 2022, the county awarded $23,747,378 in ARPA funding — which is emergency funding to help state and local governments respond to ...
Updated at 2:40 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7
In 2023, the entrepreneurship group Forward Cities visited Douglas County with a big question: What can the community do to better support its entrepreneurs of color?
Now, more than a year after talking with local Black, Indigenous and people of color who run their own businesses here, Forward Cities is back, and it plans to share its results in a special video ...
A plan will soon be developed for conserving the Wakarusa River Corridor and protecting resources in the area for future generations, and Douglas County commissioners will hear more on Wednesday about how that effort is going.
The presentation from open space leaders will focus on the conservation of the Wakarusa River Corridor, from the Clinton Lake dam to Eudora. The conservation plan will be called the ...
Democrat Erica Anderson came out on top among the three candidates who competed for the Douglas County Commission's new District 5 seat.
Anderson had garnered 5,149 votes as of 9:30 p.m. Tuesday to win District 5, which includes a small portion of south Lawrence, southern Wakarusa Township, Baldwin City and Palmyra Township. Republican Rich Lorenzo and Libertarian Kirsten Kuhn, Anderson’s opponents, received ...
Gene Dorsey will be representing the newly established District 4 seat on the Douglas County Commission after defeating two other candidates.
Dorsey received 5,849 votes to Republican Vice Mayor of Eudora Timothy Bruce's 3,557 votes and Libertarian Steve Jacob's 719 votes. District 4 includes a small portion of southeastern Lawrence, Eudora and Eudora Township and the small portion of Wakarusa Township located ...
Incumbent Douglas County Commissioner Shannon Reid was reelected on Tuesday, and will now be serving another term in the District 2 seat.
Reid’s opponent, independent candidate Brad Chun, received 2,228 votes, while she acquired 4,899 votes. The district Reid will continue representing includes North Lawrence, the eastern Lawrence area around downtown, Grant Township and the portion of Wakarusa Township ...
