Behind the district office for Perry-Lecompton schools, you can open the door to an unassuming hallway and suddenly be surrounded by thousands of books.
This is the Perry-Lecompton Community Library, at 203 West Bridge St. in Perry. It has over 12,000 books, 600 DVDs and 250 puzzles that patrons can choose from — if the library is open.
“Right now we’re only open 15 hours a week,” said Mary Guffey, the ...
The Lawrence City Commission at its meeting next week will consider a property tax abatement for a proposed senior housing development that would add affordable housing in west Lawrence.
On Tuesday, the commission will hold a public hearing and consider whether to provide Resource Housing Group Inc. a 10-year, 65% property tax abatement for the Peaks of Lawrence development — a 42-unit, mixed-income housing ...
Just a few days out from Tuesday's primary election in the Lawrence City Commission race, the Douglas County clerk says the current turnout for early voting is "fairly normal" for an off-year primary at around 2%.
County Clerk Jamie Shew said that as of Friday morning, 734 people had cast early votes in person and the county had received 446 mail ballots. Lawrence has about 61,000 eligible voters, Shew said, so ...
Two things Lawrence resident Gary Webber is a big supporter of are the Sunset Hill neighborhood and Lawrence Transit.
Webber said he read an article two years ago about the Self Engineering Leadership Fellows Program, or SELF, at the University of Kansas, which created a design for a bus bench. As a carpenter, he thought building a new bench using that design could be a way to give back to Lawrence Transit and ...
A Kansas City, Kansas, woman who led law enforcement on a chase through west Lawrence in March received a suspended sentence of 18 months in prison and will be on probation for 24 months.
Judge Amy Hanley handed down the sentence Wednesday afternoon to Danna Marie Priest based on a plea agreement that Priest had entered on May 5.
As the Journal-World reported, Priest was charged with two felonies in Douglas ...
This story was updated at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, July 28, 2025.
A Douglas County judge on Monday delayed a decision on whether to lower the $1.5 million bond of a speech pathologist accused of molesting multiple children last winter at a Lawrence elementary school.
After a hearing Monday afternoon, Judge Amy Hanley said she will take the new bond request under advisement and likely issue an order on Aug. 4. ...
