A $12,000 usage fee and a mid-May deadline to reserve Allen Fieldhouse both were factors the Lawrence school district faced when trying to use the KU building for a backup location for graduation ceremonies this week.
Plus, district officials really want to have high school graduations at the actual high schools whenever possible, a district spokeswoman said.
“We know from previous years that our students ...
There is word of a new business coming to downtown Lawrence that likely will get a high level of attention: a “recreational cannabis dispensary.”
No, recreational marijuana use — nor medical marijuana use, for that matter — hasn’t been legalized in Kansas, and this new Massachusetts Street storefront won’t be in the business of selling marijuana.
But, if history is a guide, it may still attract ...
Organizations and departments at the University of Kansas have raised enough funds to host at least two Ukrainian professors and two graduate students from the war-torn country next school year.
KU leaders on Tuesday provided an update on efforts to assist Ukrainian students and scholars that began shortly after Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of the country. A fundraising effort involving KU’s International ...
I’ll take my coffee with two sugars and a bulldozer. At least, I’m assuming that is a new option at Scooter’s Coffee in Lawrence. The chain has filed its second plan in nearly as many months to tear down an Iowa Street building to make way for a drive-thru coffee shop.
Recent plans filed at City Hall call for the building at 2500 Iowa St. — it used to house Pie Five Pizza Co. for a brief time — to be ...
When University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod speaks with students, he often gets some advice on advising: Make it better.
KU now may spend up to $6 million trying to do so.
“When I meet with students, their No. 1 concern often is advising,” Girod said in a brief interview with the Journal-World.
KU has an undergraduate advising system — the process where students are given guidance on what ...
News and notes from around town:
— I still think there is a chance one of Kansas City’s largest homeless shelter nonprofits is going to open a thrift store in Lawrence.
In March, I wrote about Kansas City-based City Union Mission filing plans at City Hall to convert a vacant convenience store at 23rd and Haskell into a “thrift distribution center.”
But, when I tried to get more information out of ...
