IN 1977

By a 5-0 vote, the city commission decided to locate the new City Hall at the site where it now stands (in 2002). The favored arrangement was to involve demolition of all grain elevators on the Bowersock site, acquisition and demolition of a former Lawrence Paper Co. building.

With Ed Carter casting the deciding vote, Lawrence city commissioners voted 3-2 to allow the city’s uniformed employees to live outside the city limits. But until the new system could be installed, employees, particularly new ones, still had to be in-city residents.

IN 1902

On Oct. 26,1902, the Lawrence Journal characterized as “absolute carelessness” the drop off from 3,004 voters to 1,876 and attributed this change to lack of interest.