One of the steepest hills in Lawrence is about to become a little shorter. Not so you’d notice — just 4 or 5 feet — but you might appreciate that missing morsel if you’ve ever ridden a bicycle up West 11th Street and felt like your calves would explode. A $4.2 million project recently ...
On Monday, folks in Lawrence — and all over the country — had a chance to watch an event that won’t happen again for another two decades, as a total solar eclipse crossed the U.S. Many of those viewers in Lawrence may well have been congregated near the Lied Center on the University of ...
Designing a set for a theater production requires creativity, passion and attention to detail, and can also be quite a challenge. Just ask Rana Esfandiary, assistant professor of design and technology in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Kansas. “I look at designing a ...
"A Place for Everyone." That's the name of the new city and county plan to end chronic homelessness, so you might expect it to be focused on places — affordable and supportive housing for people to live in. And that's certainly a part of it. One of the plan's five "goal areas" calls for more ...
In this place north of North Lawrence, the farmers count acres, the fellows at the grain elevator count bushels, and next to no one counts houses. Why would they in this land dominated by flat, black, tilled fields? Everybody from the pickup driver on the gravel road to the crows overhead ...
Maybe Lawrence City Hall forgot to order new calendars for 2024. Whatever the case, the city has collected almost exactly the same amount of sales tax revenue through the first quarter of 2024 as it did during the same period in 2023. On a balance of more than $7.7 million, the difference ...