DANVILLE, Ky. — When a friend approached Brent Williams four years ago with a business proposition to start an ostrich farm, he was more than intrigued — he had a personal motivation as someone who developed a life-threatening allergy to red meat, triggered by tick bites. The problem, ...
NEW YORK — The largest cyclospora food poisoning outbreak in U.S. history is over, U.S. health officials said Friday. U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials said they are confident that all recalled iceberg lettuce related to this specific outbreak is off the market. Nearly 13,000 ...
TOPEKA — A new report emphasizes Kansas’ need to improve access to maternity care in underserved areas by broadening insurance coverage and telehealth services, creating regional healthcare partnerships and improving Medicaid reimbursement rates to providers. The United Methodist Health ...
TOPEKA — A Lawrence pharmacy is losing revenue under a bipartisan law that holds the pharmacy industry to new standards of transparency. That is what Will Anderson, owner of Orchards Pharmacy, expected when he fought for the passage of Senate Bill 20, which changes the way that pharmacy ...
September marks the beginning of the great summer-to-fall garden transition and, although most summer plants still have life left in them, many gardeners are turning their attention to the iconic chrysanthemum. The majority of mums sold in pre-planted containers at the garden center are ...
The hanging planter on my porch has seen better days. And by better days, I mean the summer annuals have dried to a brown crisp that likely has the neighbors wondering if the Addams Family has moved in. I like to believe the extreme heat did them in, but I know neglect has also played a ...
When Marisa Mender-Franklin walks through any of the nine flower farms she runs in Memphis, Tennessee, her first thoughts are of gratitude. Partly for the flowers and the bees, but mostly for the support of her neighbors. That's because members of her local Facebook Buy Nothing group shared ...
What does it mean when brown patches show up in a perfectly healthy lawn? The truth is, it could be anything from drought to dog urine, fungal diseases, pests or too much fertilizer. But many homeowners automatically blame grubs. The problem with this is that it's often not the case, and even ...
The chapter on main dishes in my cookbook, "Greek Out," starts with an explanation of what "main dish" means to me. Most people, understandably, immediately think of dinner. Because in many places that's the biggest meal of the day, and it's usually meat plus starch plus vegetable. But the ...
What will take home the Lawrence Cocktail Trail’s trophy this year? A corn and tomato margarita, an “entry-level” bitter drink with a fruity twist, a pistachio and pisco concoction, or something even wilder? It might be up to you. These three and about a dozen others will be facing off ...
Fresh ceviche is a staple of Mexican cuisine, but my husband and I were introduced to the concept of roasted ceviche at our wedding. The side dish, adapted here from my cookbook "Plantas," is made of a combination of cooked and fresh ingredients contributing to a sweet, spicy and tangy side ...
Meet Valvin Muscat – sweet, flowery, “insane,” a bit of a heartbreaker, “kind of a pain in the kazoo,” if you ask Michelle Meyer. “But boy, do they taste good,” she says after she cuts a cluster of the golden-green grapes off the vine at Holy-Field Vineyard and Winery in Basehor ...
If you’ve never seen a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta like “The Pirates of Penzance,” director Jessica Franz-Martin thinks you probably picture something dry, stuffy and above all, British. “Right?” she said. “Like, ‘In the 1880s, they were all stodgy and they listened to this and ...
Friday, September 11 Dole Institute and KU School of Music: September 11 25th Anniversary Tribute Performance, 3-4 p.m., Hansen Hall, Dole Institute of Politics, 2350 Petefish Drive. Music & Audio Sale: Opening Night, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. CDs, ...
Friday, September 4 Paper Plains Zine Fest (see paperplainszinefest.com for details and registration): • Zines at the Spencer Research Center, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Spencer Research Library, 1540 Poplar Lane. • KU Colorbar Open Studio, 1-2:30 p.m. and 2:30-4 p.m., Chalmers Hall 203C, 1467 ...
Meet Valvin Muscat – sweet, flowery, “insane,” a bit of a heartbreaker, “kind of a pain in the kazoo,” if you ask Michelle Meyer. “But boy, do they taste good,” she says after she cuts a cluster of the golden-green grapes off the vine at Holy-Field Vineyard and Winery in Basehor ...
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 ...
