Lawrence leaders on Tuesday signed off on about $3 million in spending for the first of two planned phases to construct the city’s new field operations campus, and also expressed their support for an accelerated project timeline that would move its completion up by nine months. At ...
The 28-ton red quartzite boulder sacred to the Kaw Nation that sat in Lawrence for nearly a century as a monument to white settlers has finally been installed at its new home in Council Grove. On Tuesday, Jay Johnson — professor of geography and atmospheric science and director of the ...
This week, Lawrence leaders could sign off on a nearly $3 million agreement covering construction documents and administration costs for the first phase of the city’s multimillion dollar field operations campus project. At Tuesday’s Lawrence City Commission meeting, commissioners will ...
The City of Lawrence will host an open house next week to collect community feedback regarding how the city should preserve and maintain its brick streets and sidewalks. The city announced the open house in a news release Friday. The event is set for Thursday, April 4 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the ...
Lawrence Mayor Bart Littlejohn on Tuesday briefly addressed the results of a recent murder trial involving two teens, which he said left him “sad for everybody involved,” and voiced support for the shooting victim's family. Littlejohn brought up the trial near the end of Tuesday’s ...
Lawrence leaders on Tuesday were given an update on a number of efforts related to homelessness, including the opening of the Lawrence Community Shelter’s village of 64-square-foot Pallet cabins and the coinciding closure of homeless camps in North Lawrence. Those updates were part of a ...