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- Advance voting deadline extended past noon Monday; here’s your guide to Lawrence City Commission primary election
- 09:05 a.m., February 25, 2013 Updated 12:44 p.m.
- Town Talk for Feb. 25, 2013.
- Lawrence gathering information about costs to fix taste, odor problems with drinking water
- 06:08 p.m., December 3, 2012 Updated 08:11 p.m.
- Leaders at Lawrence City Hall haven’t forgotten about last summer’s problems with geosmin — a non-toxic but also very non-tasty algae by-product — that created an earthy, musty taste and odor in the city’s drinking water supply, and now they are looking at how much it may cost to fix the problem. By Chad Lawhorn
- Town Talk: Honoring firefighters, renovating Dillons
- November 27, 2012
- Leaders with the city’s Parks and Recreation Department are set to forward a recommendation to city commissioners to use the park at 19th Street and Haskell Avenue to remember area firefighters. The park currently doesn’t have a name but rather is just a bit of an open field with some playground equipment and a basketball goal. By Chad Lawhorn
- Town Talk: Dillons on Sixth Street seeking to add drive-thru pharmacy, $1 million worth of improvements; downtown restaurants scramble to pick up breakfast diners; city to contemplate Varsity House
- November 19, 2012
- News and notes from around Lawrence and Douglas County.
- Town Talk: SurePoint Medical signs deal to add 80 new jobs over next three years; city to challenge 2010 Census population count; land transfers including an update on $7M apartment project
- November 16, 2012
- News and notes from around Lawrence and Douglas County.
- Land transfers for the weeks ending Nov. 5 and Nov. 12, 2012
- November 16, 2012
- Land transfers as recorded by the Douglas County Register of Deeds for the weeks ending Nov 5 and 12, 2012.
- Town Talk: Soup and sandwich shop opens near Clinton Parkway Hy-Vee; Meritrust Credit Union signs deal for new eastern Lawrence branch; city to host trash can recycling event Friday
- November 15, 2012
- News and notes from around Lawrence and Douglas County.
- Two Douglas County sites recommended for National Register of Historic Places
- November 14, 2012
- The Kansas Historic Sites Board of Review has recommended the B’nai Israel Cemetery near Eudora and the Trail Park and Trail Park DAR Marker near Baldwin City be added to the national register. By Chad Lawhorn
- Town Talk: Floor plans taking shape in new rec center design; will sports complex become concert venue?; possible events Rock Chalk Park may try to attract
- November 14, 2012
- News and notes from around Lawrence and Douglas County.
- Town Talk: Emptying the notebook before tonight’s rec center hearing; parks and rec maintenance concerns; sales tax dollars and operating costs; and idea of more retail at Sixth and SLT won’t die
- November 13, 2012
- News and notes from around Lawrence and Douglas County.
- Town Talk: City group recommending $75,000 worth of glass artwork for library expansion project; Lawrence Community Shelter working on jobs deal with Berry Plastics
- November 12, 2012
- News and notes from around Lawrence and Douglas County.
- Town Talk: Milton’s restaurant set to close later this month; Convention and Visitors Bureau hires new director; opportunities for chocolate today and Sunday
- November 9, 2012
- News and notes from around Lawrence and Douglas County.
- Town Talk: More recreation center talk in advance of tonight’s forum
- November 8, 2012
- News and notes from around Lawrence and Douglas County.
- Town Talk: Deal to build 1,000-bedroom apartment complex at Gaslight Village Mobile Home Park falls through; speculation grows Menards looking at site for retail development
- November 7, 2012
- News and notes from Lawrence and Douglas County.
- Town Talk: Downtown Italian restaurant set to open today; sad tale of how Lawrence Hereford House led to crime; city to recycle unwanted trash cans on Friday
- November 6, 2012
- News and notes from around Lawrence and Douglas County.
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