News and notes from around town:

• The date has been set for the annual Downtown Lawrence Old Fashioned Christmas Parade. Horse-drawn vehicles will parade down Massachusetts Street beginning at 11 a.m. on Dec. 4. Parade organizers confirmed Wells Fargo once again will be a major sponsor of the event, and the parade will feature an authentic Wells Fargo stagecoach pulled by a six-horse hitch.

• Residents in the rural parts of Douglas County take their voting seriously, according to new data from the Douglas County Clerk’s office. A breakdown of the voter turnout numbers from all precincts in Lawrence and Douglas County shows seven precincts had turnout of 60 percent or greater. Five of the seven precincts were in rural Douglas County.

Here’s a look at top voter turnout precincts:

1. West Wakarusa, 1470 N 1000 Road: 63.47 percent.
2. (tie) Clinton Township, 1177 E 604 Road: 62.63 percent.
3. (tie) Vinland, 1724 N. 692 Road: 62.63 percent.
4. Brandon Woods, 1501 Inverness: 61.90 percent.
5. American Legion, Lawrence, 3408 W. Sixth: 60.80 percent.
6. Kanwaka Township, 776 Highway 40: 60.58 percent.
7. North Wakarusa, 1240 N. 1800 Road: 60.28 percent.

Here’s a look at the six precincts with voter turnout less than 25 percent:

1. Burge Union, 1601 Irving Hill Road: 7.03 percent.
2. Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vt: 15.24 percent.
3. Central United Methodist Church, 1501 Mass: 16.02 percent.
4. Trinity Lutheran Church, 1245 N.H.: 18.09 percent.
5. Lawrence Jewish Community Center, 917 Highland: 21.07 percent.
6. Schwegler Elementary School, 2201 Ousdahl: 22.52 percent.

Voter turnout countywide was 41.99 percent, down from 45.7 percent in 2006.

• City commissioners are being asked to get their no parking signs out. Commissioners at their meeting this evening will consider three requests to declare no parking zones along certain city streets. One section is along the south side of 11th Street between Kentucky and Tennessee streets. Another section is along the north side of Brett Drive between Berwick Way and Haversham/Stowe drives. Both those requests have been recommended for approval by the city’s Traffic Safety Commission. A third request — for the west side of Sawgrass Drive from 26th Terrace north to the cul-de-sac — is being recommended for denial by the TSC.

• As the Lawrence Public Library begins work on its $18 million expansion, it will have a new board member. City commissioners at their meeting this evening are expected to approve the appointment of Kate Harding Pohl, an architect with Lawrence-based Treanor Architects.