When Amy Trollinger isn’t driving her Toyota Corolla, she drives a white rental van. Not just for fun, but because she needs lots of room to accommodate giant coolers full of frozen breast milk. Trollinger works for the Kansas Breastfeeding Coalition, a nonprofit aimed at promoting and ...
Phones are an important part of everyday life for most people. From ordering food, online shopping and connecting with others, the average American spends more than five hours on their phone each day. That’s approximately 1,825 hours per year – the equivalent of two and a half months. ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday preserved women's access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues. The court's order allows women seeking abortions to continue obtaining the drug, mifepristone, at ...
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is currently monitoring three people who experienced a “high-risk exposure” to a person who contracted Andes hantavirus. The KDHE announced in a press release Tuesday afternoon it was working with the CDC and a state local health department ...
Short on space? Consider microgardening. Although the term might conjure thoughts of minuscule garden gnomes and fairies, the reality is quite the opposite. You can get a surprisingly high yield from a small space, even a windowsill or balcony, if you plant it right. One way to maximize ...
DENVER — A few raindrops fell as Heather Grady gingerly transplanted beet seedlings into the earth, but the sky refused to release enough moisture to ease her worries about a dry winter that's left reservoirs low. With most of Colorado in drought, Grady and her husband Terrance began ...
I love the idea of transforming garbage into free mulch and fertilizer. Composting is a win-win: I save money and keep my eggshells, coffee grounds and weeds out of a landfill. Compost is the single best additive available for improving any soil type. Is your soil too sandy? Add compost. Too ...
You might not realize it, but watching Zach Galifianakis poke around in the dirt like he's just discovered it is exactly what you need right now. In "This Is a Gardening Show," a six-part series that premiered on Netflix for Earth Day, the actor and comedian brings a kind of wide-eyed ...
My kids love this dish from my cookbook "Familia" because of the crispy chicken skin. You are essentially creating a confit where the chicken cooks in its own fat. The flavor comes from the smoky and tangy dressing, which you don't have to make in a molcajete, but if you have one please use ...
If you are a brunch person, then you may have noticed a new dish in town, sitting comfortably in recent years alongside longtime favorites like Eggs Benedict and French Toast. It's Chicken and Waffles, current darling of the brunch crowd. If you are on the hunt for a Mother's Day dish that ...
This recipe is excerpted from the cookbook "Linda McCartney's Family Kitchen." Linda was ahead of her time on plant-based eating in the '80s and '90s — today, it is much easier to follow a plant-forward lifestyle than when she wrote her first cookbooks. Now, all the ingredients you need for ...
Shiitake mushrooms from North Tabor Farm, on Martha's Vineyard, inspired this recipe from my cookbook "The Beetlebung Farm." For this soup, you can replace the chicken stock with water for a vegetarian version — but if you do, increase the quantity of mushrooms to make sure you get a nice ...
VIENNA (AP) — Bulgarian singer Dara won the 70th Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday with her infectious party anthem "Bangaranga," giving the southeast European country its first-ever victory in the competition. Israeli competitor Noam Bettan came second after a contest in Vienna clouded ...
The Lawrence Public Library and The Raven Book Store are hosting two free events Tuesday to celebrate experimental theater and make it more accessible to the public. “Experimental Theatre Tuesday” will include a presentation on the history of the genre by theater historian Blake Bolan at ...
Friday, May 8 Computer Basics: Search & AI, 10-11:30 a.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Meet at downstairs technology desk. Leave Your Mark: Collaborative ceramics with Artist-in-Residence Jason Wang, 5-7 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. Free admission; ...
When he and his wife bought their house 30 years ago, Nick Schmeidler said there was a “craftsman vibe” to the house. His “full-time hobby” of creating folk art sculptures made of salvaged parts certainly adds to that vibe. Although the sculptures in his front yard are always on ...
Whether you know it for its train or its swimming pool or its basketball court and playground equipment, the park running for two blocks between Kentucky and Tennessee streets has been through a lot. Often referred to as “Train Park” in reference to the No. 1073 locomotive on its grounds, ...
Most of the rural schools in Douglas County are identified by a name as well as a number. An exception to this norm is “No. 6.” Goldie Piper Daniels, in her 1974 history of the educational buildings in our county, notes that the name “Crutchfield” was found attached to No. 6 on an ...
On the east side of Iowa Street, between 19th and 23rd streets, stands the United States Army Reserve Training Center, which bears the name of Samuel J. Churchill. Churchill is one of two Medal of Honor recipients to have been Lawrence residents and to be buried here. Churchill was ...
On the east side of the 700 block of Vermont Street, you can see a small bronze plaque on a brick building at about eye level. It tells of a First Methodist Church that once stood there, which was built in 1857 and was used as morgue following Quantrill’s Raid on Aug. 21, 1863. More than ...
