“Hey batter, batter, swing!” may not be a surprising chant to hear at Sports Pavilion Lawrence, but hearing it echo off the walls of a Parkinson’s Wellness class might be less expected. It’s a taunt Chris Long cheered out as her fellow group member, and Parkinson’s patient, readied ...
NEW YORK — U.S. health officials stopped the publication of a study on whether the COVID-19 vaccine was keeping adults from becoming sick enough to have to go to the hospital. A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokesman on Wednesday confirmed the decision to halt publication, ...
Staff and former patients at an alcohol and drug treatment center in Lawrence celebrated the one-year anniversary of its opening, and its leaders say the center is close to being able to accept Medicaid for treatment. The Avalon Wellness and Recovery Center, 801 Iowa St., which provides ...
Gov. Laura Kelly celebrated the signing of Senate Bill 271 last week, which was a bipartisan measure that revised outdated income eligibility requirements for Kansas’ Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP. The goal was to make health care for children more affordable by adjusting the ...
You might not realize it, but watching Zach Galifianakis poke around in the dirt like he's just discovered it is exactly what you need right now. In "This Is a Gardening Show," a six-part series that premiered on Netflix for Earth Day, the actor and comedian brings a kind of wide-eyed ...
You've seen them — those odd planters that look like buildings with windows and balconies on their sides. Maybe you've planted strawberries in them. Or maybe you've just never understood them. Typically made of terracotta, the pots are usually tall and urn-shaped, but shorter, wider options ...
Unrelenting heat, wind and lack of rain can create inhospitable conditions for plants, as well as humans. But a simple change in mulch can help gardeners mitigate damage from those conditions, and wildfires too. That's one reason so-called "gravel gardens" are growing in popularity. When ...
When something in the house stops working or needs to be replaced, the first impulse of many people is to call a contractor or comparison shop online. Others have the mindset, skills, resources or time to handle it themselves. Do-it-yourselfers often are regarded as determined and ...
This recipe is excerpted from the cookbook "Linda McCartney's Family Kitchen." Linda was ahead of her time on plant-based eating in the '80s and '90s — today, it is much easier to follow a plant-forward lifestyle than when she wrote her first cookbooks. Now, all the ingredients you need for ...
Shiitake mushrooms from North Tabor Farm, on Martha's Vineyard, inspired this recipe from my cookbook "The Beetlebung Farm." For this soup, you can replace the chicken stock with water for a vegetarian version — but if you do, increase the quantity of mushrooms to make sure you get a nice ...
Free State Brewing Company and outdoor organizations will host a celebration of Kansas’ outdoor heritage featuring food, drink and inspiration for exploring Douglas County by trail. The brewery announced in a press release Monday it will partner with Kansas Trails Inc. and Friends of ...
The traditional Passover food matzo brei (rhymes with fry) is essentially matzo fried with eggs, or scrambled eggs with matzo, depending on how you look at it, and it's one of the tastiest and easiest ways to have a solid breakfast during Passover, not to mention using up leftover matzo after ...
One thing artist Mona Cliff has learned in 16 years as a stay-at-home mom is that parenting, like art, is chaotic – and that’s OK. “When they were younger, you really think that you would have a plan for the whole day,” said Cliff, whose three kids are all in their teens now. ...
Friday, April 24 Final Friday Art Walk includes: · Untold Stories of Aging Revealed and Traveled: An Exhibition of Arts-based Research, 3-5:30 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. · USD 497 Art Exhibition Opening Reception, 4-8 p.m.; Open Studios 4-5:30 p.m.; ...
As KU’s University Theatre prepares for its final show of the season with a documentary play depicting a tragic attack on a queer college student, the director said the production is an important reminder of queer and trans history — both in tragedy and resilience. University Theatre will ...
Mary Roach isn’t just a fan of science – she’s made of science, and you are, too. “The whole world is science,” said Roach, a New York Times best-selling author who’s written about the science of cadavers, digestion, sex and a host of other topics. “Your body, your computer, your ...
Whether you know it for its train or its swimming pool or its basketball court and playground equipment, the park running for two blocks between Kentucky and Tennessee streets has been through a lot. Often referred to as “Train Park” in reference to the No. 1073 locomotive on its grounds, ...
Most of the rural schools in Douglas County are identified by a name as well as a number. An exception to this norm is “No. 6.” Goldie Piper Daniels, in her 1974 history of the educational buildings in our county, notes that the name “Crutchfield” was found attached to No. 6 on an ...
On the east side of Iowa Street, between 19th and 23rd streets, stands the United States Army Reserve Training Center, which bears the name of Samuel J. Churchill. Churchill is one of two Medal of Honor recipients to have been Lawrence residents and to be buried here. Churchill was ...
On the east side of the 700 block of Vermont Street, you can see a small bronze plaque on a brick building at about eye level. It tells of a First Methodist Church that once stood there, which was built in 1857 and was used as morgue following Quantrill’s Raid on Aug. 21, 1863. More than ...
