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- Planning Commission recommends approval of Menards store for south Lawrence May 20, 2013 · 60 comments
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- Will of the people May 21, 2013
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- KU baseball gets involved in Moore, Okla., relief effort May 21, 2013
- LHS student earns perfect ACT score May 21, 2013
- Haskell's president, Chris Redman, leaving for job in Oklahoma May 7, 2013
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- Editorial: Hometown pride May 21, 2013
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- Planning Commission recommends approval of Menards store for south Lawrence May 20, 2013
- Budget cuts force Head Start to close Edgewood Homes facility May 21, 2013
Business-oriented political action committee gets big donations, endorses Chestnut, Farmer, Riordan in City Commission race
Seems to me I saw a lot of LRM trucks building city streets back when the owner's wife was the city engineer. I had Penny's pour my new driveway a few years ago and I'm very happy with it. I highly recommend their option of adding granite gravel instead of limestone. That helps prevent weather related popping and cracking of concrete. Penny's doesn't do the labor, they deliver the material, so make sure your contractor doesn't add too much water.
March 19, 2013 at 3:35 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
County likely to OK sand pit permit
Due to US Farmers producing too many crops, the US Government paid land owners over $1 Billion to not farm their land!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/...
February 28, 2013 at 9:09 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
County likely to OK sand pit permit
For those who don't want to disturb "bottomlands" for sand, please tell the authorities where to find sand on land you deem appropriate for finding sand. Highlands?
It cost $ to truck in sand from outside the area so every construction project in town will have higher costs without local sand. Do we want to pay local people to work on this sand project or pay people from out of town to haul their sand here. When you get a bid to fix your sidewalk or driveway, ask the contractor how expensive it is to haul in their materials from out of town.
Like a previous post mentioned, many area landowners get paid to not grow crops on their land due to the abundance of crops and higher yields.
February 28, 2013 at 8:54 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Planning commissions recommend denial of sand permit
This sand operation should be approved. It will keep local jobs and help keep construction costs more affordable.
If commissioners feel that sandy area between Lawrence and Eudora is such precious farmland, they should buy the land for fair market value and preserve it. Otherwise, it is not right to tell a landowner that he must only farm his land because a few want to preserve farmland. The farmers who once owned this land already sold it to Penny. The farmers got paid and moved on so let's not shed too many tears for farmers needing more farmland. Yields are high and our government still takes your tax dollars and pays farmers to not farm their land due to over production. The Dust Bowl happened when we felt the need to farm the entire state of Kansas. We need more businesses that keep jobs local. We need to stop sending companies away from our area in the name of "saving farmland".
A prior news article revealed that Penny's is moving their sand operations off the river to this site if approved. This seems like a logical step. Penny's already owns the land and they are not asking to use public land or public funding. Penny's is the only locally owned concrete company here. Allowing them to use sand from their own local land makes sense. Otherwise, it has to be trucked in from out of state which causes local dollars to go out of state and increases the local costs of our roads, driveways, foundations, and sidewalks that need sand to build.
Bill Penny is a great guy and a longtime local business owner. The Penny family lives In the Lawrence area and this is an opportunity to keep some of their operations and jobs in the Lawrence and Eudora area. Let's not force yet another company to relocate elsewhere while trying to protect dirt. I noticed the permit ultimately calls for the sand pit to be turned into a lake perhaps like the one you see next to the turnpike near Lawrence. That sounds like a great solution.
Let's hope other commissioners re-think this application and approve Bill Penny's sand permit.
February 2, 2013 at 9:28 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Editorial: Rental oversight
What should be illegal is when the Journal World hangs stuff on doors of homes and apartments and throws unwanted newspapers in people's driveways!!!!
People take great care to make sure their home doesn't appear vacant when they are out of town and then the darn Journal World hangs something on the door and throws the unwanted advertising section in the driveway to alert all criminals that the owner hasn't been home lately.
Let's move toward regular inspections of the Journal World's activities such as these. There should be an inspection fee paid per marketing piece or unwanted newspaper in each driveway in order to pay for these inspections!
November 16, 2012 at 8:28 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Letter: Sand pit plan
For those who don't want to disturb "bottomlands" for sand, please tell the authorities where to find sand on land you deem appropriate for finding sand. Highlands?
It cost $ to truck in sand from outside the area so every construction project in town will have higher costs without local sand. Do we want to pay local people to work on this sand project or pay people from out of town to haul their sand here. When you get a bid to fix your sidewalk or driveway, ask the contractor how expensive it is to haul in their materials from out of town.
Like a previous post mentioned, many area landowners get paid to not grow crops on their land due to the abundance of crops and higher yields.
October 20, 2012 at 4:04 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Letter: Sand pit plan
We need local sand for many things such as concrete. Each of our homes required concrete for at least the foundation and perhaps the driveway and patio. Penny's is a good local grown company. Let them build it so Lawrence doesn't have to buy sand from Missouri or Manhattan where MCM is based. There is plenty of great farmland available elsewhere. If you want to control farmland, buy it and preserve it with your own money if you believe it to be that valuable.
October 19, 2012 at 7:26 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Haskell students build rocket for competition
Does this mean that the U.S. government will impose sanctions and cancel food aid to Haskell? :)
April 16, 2012 at 2:44 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Jet sparks curiosity
It was Doug Comptons new jet that he bought with the money he saved from the recent tax abatements from the city of Lawrence. He forgot to feed the zebra before heading to the game in Omaha so he zipped back to town to feed it.
March 16, 2012 at 11:02 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Koch Industries executive among new owners of Bella Sera condominium development
It will be great to see that project move forward. It is great to see people investing in Lawrence, KS.
March 14, 2012 at 9:39 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )