Don't be alarmed if you see emergency responders and a lot of other people standing outside of City Hall on Tuesday — it's only a drill. City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St., will be holding its evacuation drill at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, the city announced in a news release. People downtown at that time ...
City leaders will vote this week on a $26 million bond issuance to fund water and sewer projects in Lawrence's Capital Improvement Plan. The City Commission is scheduled to consider issuing the bonds at its meeting on Tuesday. A memo from finance staff to the commission said the projects the ...
Happy National Drive Electric Week. I’ve been seeing the signs all over town touting the week. They keep producing the same question for me: Is it odd that this environmentally conscious city seemingly has more electric vehicle signs than electric vehicle charging stations? In fairness, the ...
New apartment buildings in North Lawrence, row houses near Holcom Park and a redevelopment of an old school building are a few of the projects that have applied for money from the city's Affordable Housing Trust Fund for 2027. The application period closed earlier this month, and at the ...
Miller Mart owner Sang Lee knows his regulars by name. He grabs what they want, like a specific brand of cigarettes, without them needing to ask for it. “I’m at the point where I can count individual transactions on the computer and know which customer it was that made this one transaction ...
More layers of approvals, including multiple public hearings, would be required for data center developments in Lawrence under a proposed change to the city's land use code that the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission recommended on Monday. The Planning Commission voted 6-1, with ...