The Eudora City Commission voted last week to end its city manager’s contract, effective immediately. The commission voted during a special meeting Friday night to end the city's relationship with Kevyn Gero. Gero was hired as Eudora’s city manager in June 2023 after previously serving as the interim city manager, as the Journal-World reported. Eudora Mayor Tim Reazin told the Journal-World that the ...
At midday Wednesday at Burcham Park, not even being by the Kansas River provided relief. With the sun beating down and the heat index around 100 degrees, it would have been a wise idea to stay inside. But that’s not an option everyone in Lawrence has. Many people are still living outside in Douglas County — in unverified point-in-time count data from January 2025, 142 people in the county were found to be ...
The Senior Resource Center for Douglas County is warning about scammers posing as someone with the center and claiming to be selling burial plots, and it wants to advise residents on how to avoid being scammed. Megan Poindexter, the executive director of the SRC, told the Journal-World the center was first notified about the scam this week by one of the center’s clients who called about it. Although the ...
For years, multimodal transportation advocate Bill Steele says, Lawrence has lagged behind some of its peers on bike infrastructure. It's spent more money on projects for cars, he said, and its streets are "overbuilt." But he and other members of the Sustainability Action Network think they have a fix: Just build city streets a little less for cars — sometimes with fewer motor vehicle lanes — and add a new, ...
Federal oversight of Haskell Indian Nations University hasn’t gone well, a top official with the Bureau of Indian Affairs told a congressional committee on Tuesday, and added the agency likely would be supportive of Haskell becoming more independent. Scott Davis, the Department of Interior’s acting assistant secretary of Indian Affairs, told a joint oversight committee of the U.S. House of Representatives ...
Multiple Federal legislators from Kansas officially introduced a bill that would remove control of Haskell Indian Nations University from the federal government and let the university govern itself while still providing federal funding. U.S. Senators Jerry Moran, R-Kan.; Roger Marshall, R-Kan. and Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., and U.S. Representatives Tracey Mann (KS-01) and Derek Schmidt (KS-02) introduced the ...