The KU Endowment Association is seeking to annex nearly 140 acres of land it owns next door to Lawrence’s airport, seemingly to explore whether the property could accommodate future business development.
Lawrence City Hall this week received an annexation request for 136.9 acres of property that is immediately east of the runway of the Lawrence Regional Airport. However, the annexation request — which is a ...
Perhaps the most unique building in downtown Lawrence is set to become the most unique apartment building in the city — and arguably well beyond. After all, it would have an auditorium, an organ, a kitchen that is built underneath a city sidewalk, and that’s before you even get to the building’s connections to Freemasons and Egypt.
Indeed, plans have been filed to convert the long vacant, former Masonic ...
Downtown Lawrence Inc. — the nonprofit responsible for promoting the downtown district — has been without a director since July, and likely won’t resume the search for one for several more months.
One reason a new leader hasn’t been hired, members of the association were told Wednesday: The board of Downtown Lawrence Inc. isn’t quite sure what marching orders a new director should be given.
“The ...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Wednesday that she had apologized to a fellow justice for comments she made during a speech at the University of Kansas last week.
Sotomayor told The New York Times and other media outlets on Wednesday that she had apologized to Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh for comments she made about her colleague while participating in a moderated discussion hosted by the KU law ...
Rick Atkinson lived with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for about 15 years and is currently living with Gen. George Washington, so, yes, he had thoughts to share on the nature of war with a Lawrence crowd Monday evening.
Atkinson — a best-selling military historian who said he has so studied his subjects that he feels like he’s living with them — told a Lied Center crowd that there is one rule of war to ...
Visitors of Allen Fieldhouse already know one thing they are supposed to be on the lookout for: The Phog. (Technically, “beware” is the proper terminology.) Soon, keep your eyes open for something else.
Happy hour drink specials.
By the end of this summer, the venerable Allen Fieldhouse will be the site of a new upscale bar and restaurant that will be open pretty much every day of the week, and available ...
