IN 1977

The planning commission again was handed the rezoning issue involving doctor’s offices in the area of Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Residents had protested the rezoning on the basis of new traffic congestion.

IN 1902

On June 22, 1902, in the Lawrence Journal, Peter E. Emery wrote concerning the cost of a public library, “As to whether we can afford it, … I recall the time when, as a member of the council, we were going to bankrupt the city, when we advocated sewers, and a little later on, the cry was, we could confiscate all abutting property if we curbed and guttered our streets. Still later on, paved streets, they said, will ruin all property holders on such streets. And we have come through it all. Who among us would give up our sewer system, our curbed and paved streets, and go back to cesspools, putrid streets, unclean alleys and mud holes?”