A woman is strolling along a highway just outside of Garnett naked.
Indeed, that is a disruption in the Anderson County community of about 3,200 people approximately an hour south of Lawrence. But it’s also something else: The beginning of a journey to Lawrence.
Days later, the woman had arrived at the Lawrence Public Library.
Then, about 30 minutes after arrival, the local 911 call comes in.
“There ...
I can’t spend a lot of time on any one topic because I have to go out every 30 minutes to hug and kiss my air conditioner to make sure it knows I love it. So, let’s do some quick news and notes from around town.
— Lawrence’s Dale Willey Automotive is no longer a Buick dealership. After decades and decades of carrying that General Motors brand, Dale Willey dropped Buick at the beginning of August. ...
For the first time in more than 115 years, Lawrence doesn’t have a dry cleaning store in its downtown.
The Lawrence-based dry cleaning firm Scotch Fabric Care Services closed its lone downtown Lawrence location a couple of weeks ago to make way for an expansion of the Maceli’s Banquet Hall that is next door to the Scotch facility at 1029 New Hampshire St.
Scott Shmalberg, president of Scotch Fabric Care ...
If state legislators thought a relatively new law requiring local governments to jump through extra hoops in order to raise property taxes was going to deter such tax hikes, they largely have been wrong.
More precisely, in Douglas County this year, they are 85% wrong.
County officials recently have compiled the annual list of proposed tax rates for every city, township, school board, fire district and other ...
The incoming freshman class of the University of Kansas is projected to be so large that KU is leasing space in three off-campus apartment complexes to house an overflow number of first-year students.
In fact, some KU leaders think the incoming freshman class will be the largest in the school’s history. KU leaders are limited by Kansas Board of Regents reporting rules on what they can definitively say about ...
I’m not sure what I thought would outrank a Dollar General — maybe a Dollar Emperor or Darth Dollar, perhaps — but I could have guessed all day and not come up with the answer of Popshelf. But it sure appears that young retail chain aims to be an upscale version of Dollar General.
It also appears that Lawrence will be getting one on south Iowa Street.
As I briefly reported earlier this week, there are ...
