I’m always on the lookout for a summer Blizzard in Lawrence. No, not the snowstorms. The frozen treat from Dairy Queen. (There is a lot less shovel work, unless you get the extra, extra large.) Now, I have half as many locations to find one. A labor shortage has temporarily shut down one of the city’s two Dairy Queens.
The Dairy Queen at 1835 Massachusetts St. recently closed, and its owner/operator told ...
A pair of demolitions — one high profile and another much less so — are beginning on the University of Kansas campus.
Motorists in recent days have noticed preliminary demolition work underway at Oliver Hall, the vacant dormitory building at 19th Street and Naismith Drive. By the end of the month, they’ll likely notice an even more dramatic sight — a backhoe equipped with a special 100-foot boom that ...
A Missouri-based bank has reached a nearly $4 million deal to become the official bank of the University of Kansas.
Central Bank of the Midwest, which has multiple locations in Lawrence and throughout the Kansas City metro region, will become KU’s “community banking partner” on Aug. 1, KU announced on Tuesday.
The deal — valued at $3.9 million for KU and its affiliates over seven years — will ...
After a week away from the office, let me get back in the swing of things with some news and notes from around town:
— Despite its name, this drive-thru coffee chain is moving a lot faster than your average scooter. The Nebraska-based chain Scooter’s Coffee has filed its third set of plans in as many months for a new Lawrence location.
This time, Scooter’s plans to locate at 23rd Street and Haskell ...
There has been a Whataburger question in Lawrence for a while now: When? The answer, it appears, is soon. Plans have been filed at Lawrence City Hall for the popular fast-food hamburger chain to build its first restaurant in the city.
Plans call for the restaurant to locate on the current site of Mi Ranchito Mexican restaurant at 707 W. 23rd St.
If you aren’t familiar with Whataburger, you must not be ...
There are five towns in Kansas that added new residents at a rate of at least 1 person per day in 2021. Lawrence wasn’t quite one of them, but it could at least tout itself as a place with a growing population. Most couldn’t, and some of the ones that no longer can might surprise you.
In 2021, when the world started moving about again as the population became vaccinated, the latest population estimates ...
