Lawrence has finished 2023 with a nearly $3 million budget shortfall in sales tax collections, according to year-end numbers provided by the state.
The shortfall comes as sales tax collections continued to grow in Lawrence, but did so at a rate much slower than the last couple of years. The budget shortfall — I've calculated it at $2.7 million — won’t be fatal for the city. It has an overall annual ...
After 15 years of housing homeless families in various churches one week at a time, a Lawrence nonprofit is working on a deal to open its own homeless shelter in a former children’s day care center.
Lawrence’s Family Promise organization has filed plans with City Hall to convert a longtime day care building at 200 Mount Hope Court into a facility that could house up to six homeless families at any given ...
It is bad enough to have a Grinch in your midst during the Christmas season. But organizers of a popular holiday fundraiser are finding it may be even worse to be missing a Gator.
Volunteers for the nonprofit Lawrence Lights are lamenting the theft of an approximately $20,000 utility vehicle — a John Deere Gator — from the site of its west Lawrence holiday lights display.
The Gator was donated for use by ...
On a holiday drive through Lawrence you’ll now see more than Christmas lights and flying reindeer. (What? I suppose you are the type that leaves a fire in the fireplace on Christmas Eve.)
These days you might even see some homes for sale.
Finding very many homes for sale in Lawrence has been tricky for a number of years, but the latest numbers from the Lawrence Board of Realtors show the situation is ...
News and notes from around town:
— Time is running out for area residents to give state leaders ideas on how to improve Kansas Highway 10, including a proposal that would widen parts of the state highway with tolled express lanes.
The Kansas Department of Transportation is hosting a virtual public meeting through Jan. 2 to receive suggestions on how the state highway should be improved in the coming years. ...
As Kansans enter the new year, we can do so knowing that our state is no longer a loser — although the margin for error is pretty slim.
After losing population last year, the latest numbers from the U.S. Census show Kansas gained population in 2023. But the growth amounted to only about 4,000 people, or a 0.1% gain, which was well below the national average, which was historically low itself.
Maybe that ...
