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Lawrence Farmers' Market competing for national ranking
Thursday, July 30The Lawrence Farmers' Market is hoping to be named one of the top 20 in the country.
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Gearing Up for "The Big Day"
Sunday, November 22This week is bound to be crazy with fabulous meals and shopping like crazy. Be sure not to be led to believe that a "sale" is actually a "deal" ...and remember that if you don't need it....and you weren't already planning on buying it... no price slash is going to make it cheaper than not spending the money! Use your head, think twice before buying...and remember this isn't the last sale you'll ever find. Some of the deals I found this week include cameras, Kitchen Aid and toys out the back door.... and it isn't even Friday....
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Video: Salvation Army has high hopes for Red Kettle campaign, despite slow start
The bells of The Salvation Army’s annual Red Kettle campaign will be ringing with a bit more urgency this year. Watch »
Video: United Way about $800,000 short of $1.8 million campaign goal
While campaign officials would not comment on how far along they were, in order to meet this year’s goal — the highest ever — they said more donations would be necessary. Watch »
Video: Crews get to work on St. Luke's Church
Crews are busy working on historic St. Luke's Church in Lawrence. Watch »
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Renovating a historic house of worship
St. Luke's AME church is undergoing repairs after more than five years of fundraising. Restorations include a new steel cross-gable arch and a new ceiling.
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Turnpike bridge blast sequence
A series of photos taken at high speeds during the demolition of a span of the Kansas Turnpike bridge over the Kansas River on Thursday morning.
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6News Lawrence will be bringing its 6 p.m. broadcast to four communities across northeast Kansas in September. Find out all the details.
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- Historic church gets makeover
- November 21, 2009
- Instead of the sounds of a choir, the buzzing noises of saws fill St. Luke’s AME Church in East Lawrence. After several weeks of construction, the church got new steel supports for its roof Friday.
- Four decades in crisis mode
- Headquarters Counseling Center has become a Lawrence institution
- November 21, 2009
- “We Never Close.” That was the short but clear slogan for the Headquarters Counseling Center in central Lawrence when a small group started it in November 1969. Four decades later it’s a Lawrence institution.
- City commission agenda for November 24
- Wesleyan Church seeks property annexation, rezoning
- November 21, 2009
- City commissioners will consider several ordinances for the Lawrence Wesleyan Church development near 31st Street and Kasold Drive.
- Salvation Army has high hopes for Red Kettle campaign, despite slow start
- November 20, 2009
- The bells of The Salvation Army’s annual Red Kettle campaign will be ringing with a bit more urgency this year.
- Farmers’ Turnpike reopens after four months of construction
- November 20, 2009
- The Farmers’ Turnpike will be open for traffic Friday, more than four months after a major section of the road at the northwestern edge of Lawrence closed for reconstruction.
- United Way about $800,000 short of $1.8 million campaign goal
- Officials worry that many residents will go without if more donations aren’t made
- 01:00 p.m., November 20, 2009 Updated 01:51 p.m.
- While campaign officials would not comment on how far along they were, in order to meet this year’s goal — the highest ever — they said more donations would be necessary.
- Cordley to dedicate shelter on Saturday
- November 20, 2009
- Cordley School in central Lawrence will officially open its new picnic shelter on Saturday, and the community’s invited to attend.
- Late-night moviegoers flock to ‘New Moon’
- South Wind 12 theater sold $4,525 in advance tickets to two showings
- November 20, 2009
- More than 500 people had good reason to carouse into the creepy early-a.m. hours Friday morning: The midnight release of a vampire movie, of course.
- Resident hopes to start rickshaw business in downtown Lawrence, pending city approval
- November 19, 2009
- Lawrence resident Shane Powers is hoping to open a rickshaw business in downtown by the spring, if he can convince city leaders to create a new ordinance that allows for such a business.
- Commission votes against including gender identity in Lawrence’s anti-discrimination policy
- 01:11 p.m., November 19, 2009 Updated 12:00 a.m.
- The Lawrence Human Relations Commission is recommending that the city not add gender identity as a protected status in the city’s anti-discrimination policy.
- Lawrence city commissioner recovering at LMH following procedure to relieve chest pains
- November 19, 2009
- Lawrence City Commissioner Mike Amyx is recovering at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after undergoing a procedure related to chest pains this morning.
- Roof repairs needed at county courthouse
- November 19, 2009
- Douglas County officials are working to make roof repairs an engineer says were originally left out of the construction process more than 100 years ago when the Douglas County Courthouse was built.
- Fund established for historical society
- November 19, 2009
- The Martha Parker Curator Endowment Fund has been established for the Clinton Lake Historical Society.
- Bridge detonation to take place today
- November 19, 2009
- The second of at least three planned detonations of the old bridges over the Kansas Turnpike is scheduled for 10 a.m. today.
- Lawrence Arts Center names new executive director
- Humanities and English teacher at Lawrence High to take job on Dec. 1
- 06:01 p.m., November 18, 2009 Updated 09:31 p.m.
- Susan Tate, who has taught humanities and English at Lawrence High School since 1989, will begin work at the Lawrence Arts Center on Dec. 1, according to a news release from Bill Carswell, arts center board president.
- Proposed ban on panhandling protested
- November 18, 2009
- Talk of a crackdown on panhandling in downtown brought out protesters to City Hall on Tuesday.
- Community shelter leaders moving forward with shelter plan despite setback at planning commission
- November 17, 2009
- Leaders of the Lawrence Community Shelter said Tuesday they are sticking with plans to build a new homeless shelter along East 23rd Street, despite the project receiving an unexpected delay from planning commissioners.
- Plan stalls to move homeless shelter
- 12:00 a.m., November 17, 2009 Updated 09:17 a.m.
- Not yet. Leaders of the local homeless shelter did not win the big victory they had hoped for Monday night as Lawrence-Douglas County Planning commissioners declined to act on plans for a new shelter in eastern Lawrence.
- Kansas libraries team up to teach children to read, get fit
- November 16, 2009
- It might have taken a few minutes for the group of about 40 preschoolers to stop wiggling around. But as soon as author Doreen Cronin began reading her book Monday afternoon at the Lawrence Public Library, the children were all ears.
- Library fundraiser offers hole-in-one family fun
- November 16, 2009
- So far, there aren’t any windmills or alligator mouths to aim for.
- Help lined up for Thanksgiving dinner
- November 16, 2009
- The Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition Kitchen will be serving a Thanksgiving meal at First Christian Church, 10th and Kentucky streets, on Nov. 26. Volunteers are needed to help prepare, deliver, and serve meals.
- Week of reading to preschoolers to begin
- November 15, 2009
- The fifth annual Kansas Reads to Preschoolers Week kicks off Monday.
- Fraternity’s food and cash drive to benefit homeless
- November 14, 2009
- Members of KU’s Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity are homeless until noon Sunday, but it’s for a good cause.
- Highway Patrol to target game-day revelers
- November 14, 2009
- Kansas Highway Patrol troopers will be on the lookout for drunken drivers today after Kansas University’s last home football game of the year, against the University of Nebraska.
- Downtown shoppers can help United Way
- November 14, 2009
- Some merchants in downtown Lawrence will be collecting donations today for the United Way of Douglas County.
- City Commission agenda for November 17, 2009
- November 14, 2009
- City Commission agenda for November 17, 2009.
- More coats needed for Share the Warmth
- November 14, 2009
- If you have any unwanted coats or winter wear, Scotch Fabric Care will gladly take them off your hands and give them to someone needy.
- Oread residents hope to flush portable toilets out of neighborhood
- As crowds clamor for KU football, portable toilets have become a fixture
- November 13, 2009
- Yes, there’s talk about toilets as the Jayhawks prepare for their final home game of the year. And no, it is not what you think.
- Speakers at forum criticize shelter proposal
- November 13, 2009
- A public forum on plans for a new homeless shelter on East 23rd Street turned into a rapid-fire listing of objections by neighbors on Thursday night.
- U.S. Bank branches to start food drive
- November 13, 2009
- The U.S. Bank branches in Lawrence are collecting food and other items through Wednesday to benefit Ballard Community Services.
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