- Reflective of community, ‘Ragtime’ opens new Theatre Lawrence building
- June 20, 2013
- Say you have a brand new, state-of-the-art theater. What’s the perfect show to open with? It should be something big. But rather than a famous, all-time favorite, Theatre Lawrence selected “Ragtime,” the musical story of America at the turn of the 20th century.
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A collection of more than 180 masks was given to Theatre Lawrence by Eleanor Woodyard and her late husband, George Woodyard.
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Images from Saturday's Brother Olympics event. About 60 male relatives, comprised of fathers, sons, cousins, uncles and nephews come together each Father's Day in Lawrence for the event, which is designed to bond the family through competition. Nick Krug/Journal-World Photo
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- Consultants raise concerns about proposed LMH wellness center at city’s new recreation center
- June 19, 2013
- Consultants told Lawrence Memorial Hospital leaders Wednesday that the idea of a hospital-run wellness center at the city’s new recreation center was not well received by a group of stakeholders. By Chad Lawhorn
- City approves Menards store next to Home Depot at 31st and Iowa streets
- June 18, 2013
- The stage is set for a home improvement center battle in Lawrence. A Menards home improvement center won land use approvals for a nearly 190,000-square-foot store and outdoor lumber yard just east of the Home Depot at 31st and Iowa streets. By Chad Lawhorn
- Former KU student sentenced to 30 days in jail, barred from social media, for attacking female student
- June 18, 2013
- A 21-year-old former Kansas University student was sentenced Tuesday to 30 days in jail and barred from using social media for a period of 18 months after being found guilty of attacking a local female college student in January. By Ian Cummings
- Police investigate string of almost 20 auto burglaries in west Lawrence
- June 18, 2013
- Lawrence police investigated a string of at least 18 auto burglaries in west Lawrence early Tuesday morning, and asked the public to call police with any information about the crime. By Ian Cummings
- Lawrence man arrested in alleged beating, robbery
- June 18, 2013
- A 27-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Monday afternoon in connection with the alleged beating and robbery of a female victim the day before. By Ian Cummings
- Editor to receive 2014 William Allen White Foundation honor at KU
- June 18, 2013
- Paul Steiger, an editor who has worked for the Wall Street Journal and the nonprofit news group ProPublica, will be the recipient of the 2014 William Allen White Foundation National Citation at Kansas University in February.
- Lawrence man sentenced to 52 months in prison for February bank robbery
- June 18, 2013
- A 55-year-old Lawrence man has been sentenced to 52 months in prison after being convicted of a Feb. 20 robbery at the Midwest Credit Union, 1015 W. Sixth St. By Ian Cummings
- Decisions on KU budget cuts now in hands of deans, other leaders
- June 17, 2013
- Now that Gov. Sam Brownback has approved a budget, Kansas University leaders have about two weeks to determine just where the damage will fall from about $7.5 million in state funding cuts for the coming year. By Matt Erickson
- Portion of Massachusetts Street to be closed to southbound motorists this week
- June 17, 2013
- Massachusetts Street between Eighth and Ninth streets will be closed to southbound traffic for much of the week.
- How to Help: Theatre Lawrence looking for ushers, box office managers
- June 17, 2013
- Theatre Lawrence is seeking Show Time volunteers to serve as ushers, box office managers and refreshment servers at The Cove, the bar inside the newly opened community theater building.
- Mask collection brings personality to new theater’s lobby
- June 16, 2013
- The walls of Eleanor Woodyard’s study suddenly seem very, very bare. More than 180 colorfully adorned visitors from across the globe that once smiled, frowned and grimaced at Woodyard and her late husband have taken up residency elsewhere — a place they’ll undoubtedly be able to make more friends.
- Housing organizations team with artists to explore concept of ‘Nesting’
- June 16, 2013
- What does it mean to live in a nest, a home or interior? The Lawrence Percolator has teamed up with two community housing organizations to answer through art.
- Lawhorn’s Lawrence: When fathers and sons are never too old to play
- June 16, 2013
- It’s a high-stakes horseshoe game. This year, there will be nearly 60 men in total drawn to the pits. There will be brothers against brothers, cousins against cousins, uncles against nephews, and every combination in between. Those stakes are high enough, but there’s a pairing that takes it to an even higher level: Father versus son. By Chad Lawhorn
- City commissioners to consider final approvals for Menards project
- June 14, 2013
- With two approvals already in its tool belt, home improvement retailer Menards will try to hammer out a compromise with Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday for a new store near 31st and Iowa streets. By Chad Lawhorn
- Three arrested, more charges filed, in alleged drug-related robbery at Lawrence McDonald’s
- 02:24 p.m., June 14, 2013 Updated 04:11 p.m.
- Three Topeka men were arrested Thursday in connection with what police investigators are calling a drug-related robbery two weeks ago outside a Lawrence McDonald’s. With the arrests, four suspects are now in custody in the case. Two of them appeared in court Friday to face charges.
- Officials cheer $10 million expansion of bioscience incubator at KU
- June 14, 2013
- It was a bit of déjà vu Friday morning for Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little. One of the first things she did after coming to KU in 2009, she remembered, was to stick a shovel into a hillside on the university’s West Campus to mark the groundbreaking for a new business incubator. On Friday, she was there again to do much the same thing. By Matt Erickson
- KU to choose among internal candidates for new vice provost job
- June 13, 2013
- With a new university-wide curriculum going into place this fall, Kansas University will fill a new administrator job this summer to oversee undergraduate academics. KU on Thursday announced four KU faculty members as finalists for the new position, to be called vice provost and dean of undergraduate studies. By Matt Erickson
- Fritzel has made $50,000 payment related to Varsity House settlement with city, officials confirm
- June 13, 2013
- As city officials negotiate a no-bid contract with a company led by Lawrence businessman Thomas Fritzel for work at its proposed recreation center, City Hall officials have confirmed he’s made good on a previous settlement agreement with the city. By Chad Lawhorn
- Researchers from far and wide spend summer weeks at KU’s ‘Stats Camp’
- June 12, 2013
- Bob Heiser says this is like a vacation for him. No, really. Heiser drove for 23 hours from Maine to be in Lawrence, where he’s spending the week learning about statistics as one of 260 researchers from around the country taking part in a Kansas University summer program called “Stats Camp.” By Matt Erickson
- Lawrence man sentenced to life in prison for raping young girl
- June 12, 2013
- A 42-year-old Lawrence man has been sentenced to life in prison for raping a girl, who is now 12.
- City will make boosting broadband service in Lawrence issue for 2014 budget
- June 12, 2013
- Keeping up with the Googles of the world will cost a lot of money, and even that may not work. By Chad Lawhorn
- Downtown Lawrence Inc. hires nonprofit executive to fill director position
- June 11, 2013
- A Lawrence resident with experience as a fundraiser for nonprofit agencies has been named the new executive director of Downtown Lawrence Inc. By Chad Lawhorn
- Change in state law expected to produce fewer historic preservation reviews in Lawrence
- June 11, 2013
- The question of what type of developments can be located next to historic structures — a question known to create a few debates in Lawrence — soon will be asked less frequently, because of a new state law. By Chad Lawhorn
- Lawrence man sentenced to almost five years in prison for paying for sex with teenager
- June 11, 2013
- A 33-year-old Lawrence man has been sentenced to almost five years in prison for paying to have sex with a 14-year-old girl in January. By Ian Cummings
- Shamanic healing has a foothold in Lawrence
- From ‘soul retrieval’ to transformative dance, believers say spiritual practice fills a void
- June 10, 2013
- Shamanic healing has a foothold in Lawrence, and followers of the practice say it seems to be growing here as it grows in Western culture as a whole. Shamanism is not widely accepted as effective, but those who practice it say it’s filled voids in their lives they previously couldn’t quite put their fingers on. By Sara Shepherd
- KU professor helps discover earliest human tumor ever found
- June 10, 2013
- If David Frayer has his way, the word “Neanderthal” will one day no longer be an insult. For years, the Kansas University professor of anthropology has argued that Neanderthals were more closely related to today’s humans than people realized. And now, Frayer has helped discover something else Neanderthals have in common with humans: They could develop tumors. By Matt Erickson
- KU Med Center researcher among scientists studying mice following 30-day space orbit
- June 10, 2013
- For nearly 24 hours, Joseph Tash and about 20 other American scientists worked continuously in a lab in Moscow last month to get everything they could out of the prize they’d been given. Their gift: six mice, just returned from a 30 days in Earth’s orbit. Tash and the others had been picked to study the effects of the space journey on different parts of the mice’s bodies — in Tash’s case, their reproductive organs. By Matt Erickson
- Lawhorn’s Lawrence: The hidden survivors of Quantrill’s Raid
- June 9, 2013
- If you love Lawrence, researchers are finding clues that may spark a point of historic pride: William Quantrill didn’t take as much from us as we thought he did. By Chad Lawhorn
- Church offers language classes to promote diversity
- June 8, 2013
- Sabi Rongish didn’t experience complete culture shock when she moved to the United States from her native South Korea a little over two years ago. Rongish spoke some English, and her husband is from Kansas, so they had visited his family and taken vacations here several times. Rongish wasn’t overwhelmed, but she still had a lot of adjusting to do. She wanted to learn better English and know more about the American way of life. For Rongish and other immigrants in the Lawrence area, Plymouth Congregational Church is providing help. The church hosts English classes for non-English speakers as well as low-cost Spanish classes for the community. It’s part of the church’s efforts to offer hospitality and become more culturally diverse. By Meagan Thomas
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