Voters were split exactly 50-50 in unofficial election results Tuesday night on a half-cent sales tax in Eudora that would support three full-time firefighters and give the city around-the-clock-fire protection for the first time in its history. The 0.5% sales tax had 1,150 votes for it and ...
Democrat Ethan Spurling has won the District 4 seat on the Douglas County Commission, defeating a seated commissioner in both the primary and general elections, where the commissioner ran as a write-in candidate. Spurling secured the general election win against Gene Dorsey, a Democrat, who is ...
Incumbent Patrick Kelly, a Democrat, will keep his seat on the Douglas County Commission after running unopposed in Tuesday’s election. This will be Kelly’s third term on the County Commission's District 1. The district includes parts of northern, northwestern and central Lawrence. Kelly ...
Incumbent Erica Anderson will serve her second term on the Douglas County Commission after winning the District 5 race on Tuesday. Anderson, a Democrat, had garnered 6,652 votes as of 9:50 p.m. Tuesday to win District 5, according to unofficial election results. The district includes a small ...
Douglas County commissioners will be considering a change that would make it easier for them to remove a road’s minimum maintenance designation on Wednesday. With county staff’s proposed changes, commissioners could remove a minimum maintenance designation — which is given to a public ...
Everything that goes around comes around — just not always in the correct order. That was proven on Sunday by the blankety-blank No. 6. The horses indeed went all the way around the track at Eureka Downs, but I never could quite get them to come around in the right order. I lost a $1 ...