Lawrence Public Schools canceling school for Tuesday, plus more local closures

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Post last updated at 7:32 p.m. Monday, Jan. 8:

The Lawrence school district will have no school Tuesday because of winter storm conditions. 

The district also canceled all its after school and evening activities for Monday because of the weather conditions.

The Lawrence Public Library closed at 5 p.m. Monday and also will be closed Tuesday. The digital library is open 24/7. Visit lplks.org/digital-library.

More on the weather:

Other closures, changes, cancelations, etc.:

All City of Lawrence Parks and Recreation programs are canceled Monday and until 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 9. See the department’s Rainout Line website for activity-specific details. Recreational facilities will delay opening until 10 a.m. Tuesday, except for the Community Building, which will open at 8 a.m. as usual.

The Eudora school district has canceled school Tuesday.

The Baldwin City school district has canceled school Tuesday.

The University of Kansas’ Lawrence, Edwards and Leavenworth campuses will be closed Tuesday.

Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health’s office and clinic will be closed Tuesday.

Lawrence’s Multimodal Transportation Commission and Parks and Recreation Advisory Board meetings for Monday are canceled.

Heartland Community Health Center, Panda Pediatrics and River City Pharmacy will be closed Tuesday.

The Kansas Judicial Center in Topeka is closing at 4 p.m. Monday and will be closed Tuesday.

The Ballard Center’s mobile food pantry at the Douglas County Fairgrounds is canceled Tuesday.

The Willow Domestic Violence Center’s administrative offices will be closed Tuesday but the 24/7 hotline is available, 785-843-3333.

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Severe weather resources

National Weather Service local office (Topeka):
 Find the latest weather forecast info and severe weather advisories for the Lawrence area at this link.

In the event of rapidly changing severe weather, such as tornadoes, the NWS posts frequent updates on Twitter, @NWSTopeka. You do not need a Twitter account to see tweets from NWS.

NWS is also on Facebook, facebook.com/NWSTopeka.

 Call 785-234-2592 to hear the forecast.

Douglas County Emergency Management:
Follow @DgCoEM on Twitter or Douglas County, KS- Emergency Management on Facebook, facebook.com/dgcoem.

Sign up to receive emergency alerts at dgcoks.org/emalerts.

Find lots of tips on severe weather and other emergency preparedness on DgCoEM’s website at douglascountyks.org/emergency-management.

Report storm damage (for non-emergencies only, and after storm danger has passed) by calling the nonemergency dispatch line at 785-843-0250 or 785-832-7509.

Evergy outages:
Check the status of power outages on the Evergy outage map, outagemap.evergy.com.

Report a power outage at evergy.com/report-outage, or call 800-544-4857.

For down powerlines, call 911.

City of Lawrence snow info:
The city has snow information and a map at lawrenceks.org/snow that shows information about road conditions and snow plow locations. The city typically begins snow and ice control for residential roadways when 2 or more inches of snowfall or icing occurs.

Air quality:
Check the current air quality index in Lawrence and elsewhere through AirNow, airnow.gov.

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