Dust control program expands in Douglas County towns
Douglas County offers a road dust palliative program using liquid calcium or magnesium chloride to reduce dust on rock roads in front of homes. Nine townships joined last year, with 72 residents participating, including 21 from Wakarusa. The county and township boards must approve to continue for another year. Cost is about 0.40 per linear foot plus a 35 administration fee per location. Applications last about a year if maintained. no warranty. Residents may contact the county Public Works Department before April 3 to participate.
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Wakarusa
Frank Hempen
Wakarusa Township
Hempen
County Public Works Department
Mass
Douglas County actions include easement release and road work
Douglas County commissioners approved releasing a 60 year drought relief easement in Kanwaka Township after discovering its lack of use for a planned reservoir. They also granted a variance for Richard and Judith Wolfe to allow a driveway and approved a Sixth Street reconstruction pact with the city funded by state and local shares. Additional actions covered asphalt contracts, stray animal hold periods, and noted rising medication costs in the county employee health program.
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Kanwaka Township
Dwight Jackson
Kanwaka Meadows
Hardrock
Jackson
Richard
Judith Wolfe
East 700
Wolfes
Douglas County
Sixth Street
Pam Madl
Lawrence-Douglas County
Road plan for Sixth Street could add lanes and bike routes
City and Douglas County weigh widening Sixth Street from two to at least four lanes while a coalition of eight property owners eye 25 acres at the South Lawrence Trafficway intersection for up to 450,000 square feet of commercial development. Landplan Engineering envisions 450 businesses, five to six office nodes, 30 acres of multifamily space, and 300 single or multiunit homes across 960 acres.
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Wakarusa Drive
South Lawrence
Phil Struble
Douglas County
U.S. 40
Wakarusa
Kansas Department of Transportation
Ric Johnson
Bucher, Willis & Ratliff Corp
Kansas City
EBH & Associates
Sixth
Struble
Landplan Engineering
Baby born on plane improves at hospital in Kansas City
Alexis Dawn Rodriguez, born three months early on March 1 on a Southwest Airlines flight, has been upgraded from critical to serious at Children's Mercy Hospital. The infant remains on a respirator but is gaining weight as she faces several weeks in care. her mother, Bridgett Williams, says she hopes for a homecoming. The birth occurred shortly after the Phoenix to Kansas City flight landed at Kansas City International Airport.
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Southwest Airlines
Alexis Dawn Rodriguez
Children’s Mercy Hospital
Bridgett Williams
Alexis
Williams
Overland Park
Kan
Phoenix
Kansas City International Airport
LMH renovation bid up for approval
Lawrence Memorial Hospital trustees meet Wednesday at 9 am in the hospital auditorium to decide on a bid not to exceed 520,320 for renovating the intensive care unit. The project will proceed in phases with eight rooms available at a time and includes disposing of obsolete equipment to local not-for-profit agencies.
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Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Maine
Three die in head-on Kansas crash amid rain
A morning collision on Kansas Highway 15 about 35 miles south of Wichita killed Shawn Falk 21 of Winfield and Eva Findley 69 and Alvin Cook 78 of Arkansas City. Falk attempted to pass a vehicle when his car struck the oncoming car driven by Findley with Cook as a passenger.
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Shawn Falk
Winfield
Eva Findley
Alvin Cook
Arkansas City
Cowley County
Craig King
Kansas Highway 15
Wichita
Falk
King
Ms. Findley
Cook
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