An annual grant program that awarded $200,000 last year for natural and cultural heritage projects in Douglas County will be delayed this year while the Heritage Conservation Council searches for a new leader to manage it. Usually, grant guidelines and application materials for the council’s ...
Renovation has begun at the future home of the Community Children’s Center in Lawrence, which plans to offer much-needed daytime, overnight and weekend child care for infants and toddlers. The project to renovate the building for the center, which will be located at 346 Maine St., began ...
The latest version of the long-range plan guiding Douglas County’s transportation system should be finalized in a matter of months, and it would call for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving the city's amenities for cyclists and more. The draft plan — dubbed “Transportation ...
Yet another new name has been listed on Haskell Indian Nations University’s website as the university’s president, continuing a trend since last May of interim and acting leaders stepping into the role without any public notification being given. Dr. Frank Arpan is currently identified as ...
A Douglas County District Court judge on Friday denied a request from a former Lawrence police officer accused of rape to try his case in a different venue. The ex-officer, Jonathan Gardner, 41, of Tonganoxie, requested the change of venue because, as he argued through his attorney John ...
Four Lawrence elementary schools have received $2,000 grants to promote healthy habits, funds that will help expand three school gardens and add a sensory activity room to another school. The four Lawrence schools to receive the grants — Cordley, Woodlawn, Langston Hughes and Sunflower — ...
