Three candidates for the Lawrence City Commission on Wednesday called for either a freezing of city utility rates or a moratorium on the collection of overdue utility bills.
How to assist low-income residents who are struggling with consistently rising utility bills was a big question at a City Commission candidate forum hosted by the local chapter of the NAACP.
“The biggest thing we can do to assist those ...
Updated at 1:25 p.m. Thursday
A five-year enrollment slide at the University of Kansas’ main campus continued, new numbers released for the fall semester show.
Numbers from the Kansas Board of Regents on Thursday showed KU’s enrollment at its Lawrence campus did not bounce back to pre-pandemic levels, but rather declined slightly from the fall 2020 mark by one key metric.
But the report also shows that ...
I thought I had tried every type of breakfast first. (I now begrudgingly admit using Cap’n Crunch as an omelet filling isn’t going to get you promoted to admiral anytime soon.) But today, I added a new first: I ate in the first Flip’d restaurant in America, and yes, it is in Lawrence.
We reported back in June that the longtime breakfast restaurant IHOP had chosen Lawrence as one of its first markets for ...
A Lawrence manufacturing plant that makes medical test tubes has filed plans to build a more than $10 million expansion that will nearly double the size of its local production facility.
Plastikon Industries has filed plans to construct a nearly 80,000-square-foot production facility and warehouse next to its existing manufacturing plant in the East Hills Business Park.
The plans filed with the city’s ...
The idea didn’t take at first with Jane Bateman. She was happily handling fabrics all day, creating drapes, slip covers and other items that make an interior design complete.
Then her boss at Bud Jennings Carpets in downtown Lawrence told her about plans to move the store to far south Lawrence as his sons were entering the business. With the move and expansion, they probably weren’t going to focus on ...
Paul Murrison traded in a job at private golf clubs in the Southwest, in part, for a Golden Tee machine on the back wall. No, this isn’t a story about video game addiction, but rather about a longtime bar and restaurant manager taking his shot at owning his own place.
“I couldn’t go to my grave without owning my own joint,” Murrison said.
So Murrison this month opened Murf’s Pub at 3115 W. Sixth ...
