With the COVID-19 pandemic ending community gatherings for the foreseeable future, organizers of Baldwin City’s sesquicentennial events say they are exploring creative ways to engage residents in the celebration. As originally conceived, Baldwin City’s sesquicentennial celebration was going to tie into a number of regular community events held throughout the year, culminating in a special event on the 150th anniversary of the city’s official incorporation on Sept. 22, 1870. Baldwin City Councilman Brian Cramer, the City Council’s liason to the sesquicentennial advisory committee appointed by Mayor Casey Simoneau, said it was too early to cancel the Sept. 22 event or the [...]

As the employer of hundreds of essential employees still physically reporting to work, the City of Lawrence may be able to provide an example to employers contemplating how to bring employees back to work safely once stay-at-home orders lift. For the city, precautions include daily temperature checks, staggered shifts and face masks in circumstances when job responsibilities don’t allow employees to maintain a 6-foot distance. City spokesman Porter Arneill said in an email to the Journal-World that the city began taking employees’ temperatures daily the week of April 12 to minimize potential exposure to COVID-19 for the city’s essential staff. Read [...]

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