Updated story - Aug. 6 — County postpones Lone Star Lake herbicide treatment for a week Water activities at Lone Star Lake will be prohibited later this week while the Douglas County Public Works Office treats the lake for an invasive plant. The county announced in a news release last ...
After privately discussing personnel matters, the Douglas County Commission wrapped up a brief meeting on Wednesday without taking any action. The only general business item on the commission's meeting agenda was an executive session. County leaders met privately to discuss matters involving ...
The Douglas County Commission will convene Wednesday for a meeting with a brief agenda, with the main focus being a private discussion on personnel issues. The only general business item on the agenda is an executive session, during which the commissioners will meet with the county counselor ...
Three miles east of Baldwin City and just south of a U.S. Highway 56 roadside park is a patch of prairie that Roger Boyd says is one of the hidden treasures of Douglas County. Right now, a carpet of thigh-high native grasses green from the abundant summer rains and speckled with yellow, blue, ...
A county road south of Eudora will be closed to through traffic beginning Wednesday, Douglas County Public Works has announced. Route 1061, also known as East 2200 Road, will be closed between North 1000 Road and Kansas Highway 10 for a culvert replacement project, the public works department ...
Douglas County will end the use of one herbicide and continue using another for the treatment of unwanted vegetation at Lone Star Lake. After hearing from public works director Keith Browning during their regular meeting on Wednesday, Douglas County commissioners accepted his plans for ...
About 20 trees near Lone Star Lake have likely been damaged by herbicides, and Douglas County staff plans to remove some of them, a county official recently said in a memo to Douglas County commissioners. The commission will discuss the issue during its Wednesday meeting and possibly give ...
After Douglas County Commission Chair Michelle Derusseau said she did not plan to attend a White House summit, calling it a “publicity stunt,” a member of Republican President Donald Trump’s staff has accused her of partisanship. The three Douglas County commissioners were invited — ...
Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday approved their 2020 budget for publication with a mill levy increase that is slightly smaller than what they discussed the week prior. Interim County Administrator Sarah Plinsky said a change in the zoning department’s budget lowered the required ...
President Donald Trump has been inviting county leaders nationwide to summits at the White House. Douglas County Commission Chair Michelle Derusseau said she did not plan to attend the upcoming “publicity stunt.” All three county commissioners were invited — along with other ...
The owner of a property on the northern outskirts of Lawrence wants to build a boat storage and ministorage facility there, but several neighbors have petitioned against the plan. The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission voted 5-5 on the conditional use permit at its June 24 meeting, ...
Two local organizations recently supplied funding to a University of Kansas addiction program to help it expand its services in Douglas County. The university announced in a news release that its Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment received a grant from the Douglas County ...
Douglas County District Court Chief Judge Peggy Kittel recently shared with county leaders several concerns about security in the local hub of criminal justice. “I have to say, we are really lucky that we have not had an incident here,” she told Douglas County commissioners during their ...
Though Douglas County commissioners have not given final approval to a 2020 budget, they did reach a consensus Wednesday on a plan that would raise the mill levy by 0.429 mills. If approved, the budget would raise the mill levy from 46.015 to 46.444. That’s a total of roughly $1,068 in ...
Douglas County commissioners at their Wednesday work session will discuss possibilities for a downtown master plan that would address some space issues. The county hired the architecture firm Gould Evans to conduct a space needs study in 2017. The study found that the county's downtown ...
Representatives for the City of Lawrence and the local firefighters union continue to disagree on how much of a wage increase is needed to keep firefighter pay competitive, and contract negotiations could soon require mediation. Negotiations between the city and the union, Local 1596, are ...
Douglas County commissioners’ regular Wednesday evening meeting is canceled this week, but they will meet in the morning for budget deliberations. The commission held budget hearings with various county departments and county-supported agencies last week and Monday for its 2020 budget. They ...
Story updated at 3:03 p.m. Monday, July 1: The Douglas County district attorney says his office already has programs successfully diverting numerous simpler cases from court. Taking those efforts to the next level won’t be as simple or cheap. “We’re getting down to the hard cases,” ...
A Douglas County ordinance prohibiting businesses from selling tobacco products to people under the age of 21 appears to be safe from legal challenges. The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday issued a ruling upholding the City of Topeka’s ordinance that prohibits the sale of tobacco products, ...
Interim Fire Chief Shaun Coffey has been hired as the new chief of the Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical Department, Lawrence City Manager Tom Markus announced Thursday. Markus, who appointed Coffey as interim chief in July 2018, said in a city news release that he had watched Coffey lead ...