The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office has officially settled into the new Public Safety Building next to the county jail, providing an expansive space for staff. The department is occupying the main level of the new Public Safety Building – right next to the Douglas County Correctional ...
Celebrants gathered for a block party on Ninth Street that served two purposes Saturday. The celebration was both for the pending end of the street closure that has stymied drivers and businesses while the city worked on its Jayhawk Watershed Project and to celebrate the 80th anniversary of ...
Meet Valvin Muscat – sweet, flowery, “insane,” a bit of a heartbreaker, “kind of a pain in the kazoo,” if you ask Michelle Meyer. “But boy, do they taste good,” she says after she cuts a cluster of the golden-green grapes off the vine at Holy-Field Vineyard and Winery in Basehor ...
The Kansas Statewide Homeless Coalition used a new app and other safeguards to ensure this year’s point-in-time count accurately captured homelessness in Douglas County on a single night in January – and here’s how they did it. This year’s “point-in-time count” was conducted by ...
A new housing development will help transition families into long-term housing, and it will be welcoming its first families in mid-September. Dozens of people attended Tuesday afternoon’s ribbon cutting ceremony for the new transitional housing development known as Promise Heights. The ...
Friday, August 28 Happy Birthday Senator Elizabeth Dole Community Blood Drive, noon-4 p.m., Dole Institute of Politics, 2350 Petefish Drive. See doleinstitute.org for details and donation sign-up. Clear the Shelter Event, noon-6 p.m., Lawrence Humane Society, 1805 E. 19th St. Adoption fees ...