The rural areas of the county are where the Douglas County community least wants development to occur, but the county's zoning regulations make it one of the easiest places to be developed, Karen Willey said. “The processes we have in place are absolutely turned on their heads, in terms of ...
Community members will soon have the opportunity to learn more about a planned Douglas County study on the racial breakdown of law enforcement contact for traffic and pedestrian stops. The county’s Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, or CJCC, will host a presentation about the upcoming ...
The Douglas County Commission kicked off discussions about finding a permanent county administrator on Wednesday, but a majority of commissioners said they believed they have already found one in Sarah Plinsky. Plinsky has been serving as the interim county administrator since December, when ...
The Douglas County Commission will soon consider authorizing its 2020 budget and begin discussions about finding a permanent county administrator. The commission previously said it would not begin the search for a new county administrator until the budget work was finished. Commissioners are ...
The Lawrence Community Shelter plans to cut the number of guests it serves by nearly half next month, the shelter board’s president announced in a statement Friday. The decision to reduce the shelter’s capacity from 125 to 65 by Sept. 1 ultimately comes down to a lack of funding, shelter ...
A planned herbicide treatment at Lone Star Lake has been postponed for a week. Karrey Britt, a spokeswoman for the county, said the Douglas County Public Works department will now treat the lake for Eurasian watermilfoil, an invasive plant species, on Aug. 14 and 15 if weather permits. Water ...
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 ...