The COVID-19 pandemic accomplished what two world wars, the Great Depression and the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918 couldn’t do: lead organizers of the Vinland Fair to cancel the annual three-day event. The board of the Vinland Fair announced the cancellation on its website, ...
Baldwin City residents would see neither a property tax increase nor utility rate hikes under the 2021 budget that City Administrator Glenn Rodden is proposing. The Baldwin City Council will consider approving Rodden’s proposed 2021 budget for publication at its meeting Tuesday. Should the ...
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, disease investigators in Douglas County had the time to contact people with positive cases of the virus and track their contacts. But as cases rose in the county in June and July, the job of contact tracing became more arduous. Since early July, the ...
Douglas County reported 15 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 650, and will be remaining in Phase 3 of its COVID-19 reopening process until further notice, the local health department said Friday in a news release. The release from Lawrence-Douglas ...
Apartment complexes in Lawrence — specifically those popular with students — are experiencing differing levels of success filling up their units for fall. But leasing associates and managers at three complexes all agreed that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in demand for ...
The 2020 Veterans Day Parade — scheduled for Nov. 7 — has been canceled, the Lawrence Veterans Day Parade Association announced in a Friday press release. The statement says the board of directors determined that the "current and ongoing public health emergency creates unavoidable risks ...
Douglas County has reported 635 cases of COVID-19 as of Thursday, an increase of five cases since Wednesday. In Douglas County, 549 out of the 635 cases are inactive or beyond the infectious period, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. One patient at Lawrence’s hospital had ...
Off-and-on rain this week has brought about 1.5 inches of rain to Lawrence, according to records at the Lawrence Municipal Airport. Brandon Drake, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Topeka, said 1.56 inches of rain was recorded at the airport as of Thursday around 7 a.m. He ...
When director Scott Wiper called up Lawrence filmmaker Jeremy Osbern to talk to him about being director of photography for Wiper's upcoming film, “The Big Ugly,” Wiper asked Osbern if he had seen an old Clint Eastwood movie called “The Outlaw Josey Wales.” Wiper liked the dark imagery ...
A third Douglas County resident has died from COVID-19, according to the health department's Wednesday update about the virus. Last week, Douglas County announced that two people — a male resident in his 70s and a male resident in his 80s — had died from COVID-19 or with the virus as a ...
Does the white side of a disposable mask face outward, or toward the wearer? How often should a cloth mask be washed? How protective are bandanas? Nicole Parker, a public health nurse at Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, answered these mask questions and more on Tuesday morning. Since ...
Douglas County has reported 614 cases of COVID-19 as of Tuesday, an increase of six cases since Monday. In Douglas County, 520 out of the 614 cases are inactive or beyond the infectious period, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. Four patients at Lawrence’s hospital had ...
Avid users of the Levee Trail, Steve and April Evans used to look at empty plots of land next to the path while hiking or biking and think, “Gee, it would be nice to live close to the levee.” Now, the couple lives on a once-empty plot in a contemporary home that was finished in the fall of ...
Douglas County has reported 608 cases of COVID-19 as of Monday, an increase of 20 cases since 1 p.m. Friday. In Douglas County, 496 out of the 608 cases are inactive or beyond the infectious period, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. Four patients at Lawrence’s hospital had ...
An Education Unified Command team including leaders from health, government, business and education sectors will strive to provided a coordinated reopening and response strategy among education institutions, a Monday news release from the health department stated. “Our schools cannot do it ...
A proposed budget that Eudora city commissioners recently approved for publication has utility rate hikes but no property tax increases, and the city manager says it represents a conservative approach to unknowns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. The $14.3 million budget plan would ...
Douglas County has reported 588 cases of COVID-19 as of Friday, an increase of 27 cases since 2 p.m. Thursday. In Douglas County, 483 out of the 588 cases are inactive or beyond the infectious period, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. Three patients at Lawrence’s hospital ...
Updated at 12:06 p.m. Friday WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday presented one of the nation's highest civilian honors to Jim Ryun, a former Republican congressman and the first U.S. high schooler to break the 4-minute barrier in running the mile. Ryun, a University of Kansas ...
Two people in Douglas County have died from COVID-19 or with the virus as a contributing factor in their deaths, the health department announced Wednesday afternoon. A male resident in his 70s died earlier this month, and a male resident in his 80s died this week. Both patients had been ...
Douglas County has reported 536 cases of COVID-19 as of Tuesday, an increase of 10 cases since Monday. In Douglas County, 393 out of the 536 cases are inactive or beyond the infectious period, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. Three patients at Lawrence’s hospital had ...