Former KU men’s basketball coach Ted Owens remembers it all the time, but it had been a long while since he had seen it: Teammates hugging after winning the regional championship to advance to the 1971 Final Four.
“This tells it all,” Owens said on Friday, pointing to a mural of the scene that hangs in the hallway leading to the University of Kansas men’s basketball offices. “I call that ...
Let’s do some news and notes about a couple of places around town. One is a place where businesses time and again try to locate but can’t, and the second is a spot that is proving to be a difficult place for a business to remain open.
First, the much-sought-after spot. I’m talking about the intersection of the South Lawrence Trafficway and Iowa Street in south Lawrence. It is one of the few intersections ...
There are a couple of ways to get a Nebraskan in Lawrence excited. One, tell them they are missing a row of kernels on their corn cob hat, or two, tell them that Lawrence has a Runza restaurant.
The fast-food chain that features a stuffed sandwich with a blend of meat, spices, cabbage and onions is a major deal in Nebraska. There are 13 Runza restaurants in Lincoln alone, according to the company’s website. ...
A Lawrence company that has been an international leader in the printing of scholarly and academic journals has been purchased by a larger, Minnesota-based publishing firm.
Brainerd, Minn.-based CJK Group Inc. has purchased Lawrence’s Allen Press, but the company said it plans to continue operating Allen’s East Lawrence printing plant, which is a significant employer and taxpayer in the community.
The ...
You can’t quite call it a record-breaking year, but you can certainly say that Lawrence shoppers broke out their wallets in a big way in 2022.
Now, the question is whether those shoppers are just plain broke heading into 2023.
The city’s retail sales tax collections in 2022 were up 8% compared with a year ago, which is the second-best growth rate in recent memory. It trailed only 2021, when the city ...
A group led by the dean of KU’s School of Education is seeking tens of millions of dollars in new funding to provide scholarships to Kansas high school students who want to enter the K-12 teaching profession.
Rick Ginsberg, dean of KU’s education school, recently told the Kansas Board of Regents that it should remove several restrictions from its Kansas Teacher Service Scholarship Program, and that the ...
