A more than $40 million affordable housing apartment project is going to happen in south Lawrence after all. I reported in February that plans had been filed for a 400-plus-bedroom apartment complex to be built near the South Lawrence Trafficway, a few blocks east of Walmart. In addition to being a big project, it was slated to be a unique one because it would be an officially designated, rent-controlled ...
University of Kansas leaders are open to requiring a negative test or proof of vaccination for admittance to certain university events, a spokeswoman said on the heels of a faculty petition calling for stronger COVID standards. “We will be providing significant incentives for unvaccinated students to get vaccinated as they return to campus,” KU spokeswoman Erinn Barcomb-Peterson said via email Monday ...
If the plans are approved at Lawrence City Hall, a couple of hundred feet on a west Lawrence block may contain nearly the full spectrum of life. Plans have been filed for an assisted living facility to be built next door to the Lawrence Montessori School, giving the young and not-so-young new opportunities to interact. “We are really hoping to collaborate with the school,” said Alicia Holmes, an owner of ...
Updated at 4:47 p.m. Monday About 240 KU faculty members have signed a petition asking for a vaccine mandate — or as much of one as state law will allow — along with several other stronger COVID protocols for campus. “Although this requirement may be controversial, its efficacy is undeniable, and it should be implemented in ways and to the extent legally possible,” read the petition, which was ...
Well, we definitely can’t blame this on an August snowstorm. But we had better come up with some excuse because voter turnout in last week’s primary election was at its lowest level since 2013, when a snowstorm hit the city on primary election day. No, city and school board primary elections weren’t held in August back then. They were held in late February. It has only been in recent years that a state ...
UPDATED 11:50 A.M. AUG. 6, 2021 The University of Kansas will begin requiring all individuals — regardless of vaccination status — to wear masks while indoors on campus. Chancellor Douglas Girod made the announcement Friday morning in an online message to the university community. The new policy begins Monday. "This mask mandate is an important and hopefully short-lived step that will enable us to ...