Some news and notes from around town:
— I’ve had many dancing partners who I am sure would have enthusiastically endorsed the idea of a “virtual dance.” While their feet may love the idea, it is not an ideal arrangement for a dance studio, yet many studios found themselves in such a situation during the height of the pandemic.
“It was very rough,” Rachel Weitekamp, owner and director of Sunflower ...
The same energy firm proposing to build a 3,000-acre solar farm in southeast Douglas County also is exploring the feasibility of building a large wind turbine farm in southwest Douglas County, I’ve confirmed.
Florida-based NextEra Energy has begun reaching out to large landowners in southwest Douglas County and northwest Franklin County about a project dubbed the Larksong Wind Energy Center.
“We are just ...
Thanks to COVID, it had been nearly two years since former director of bands Bob Foster had climbed that ladder with baton in hand to conduct the KU Alumni Band on the football field.
Not that Foster was particularly worried about the layoff. The organizers, after all, had given him the song to conduct in advance — and he had heard of it.
Maybe you have too: “I’m a Jayhawk.”
While members of the ...
The dichotomy of retirees living across the street from one of the city’s largest high schools is about to get deeper in northwest Lawrence. Plans have been filed to build another retirement complex — this one with an Alzheimer’s facility — in the Bauer Farm development near Free State High School.
A St. Louis-based company is seeking to build 53 units of assisted living and 22 units for residents in ...
Several hundred people were at the Douglas County Fairgrounds on Thursday evening as the Budweiser Clydesdales trotted around the facility.
The famed team of horses and their beer wagon were in Lawrence as part of an event hosted by O'Malley Beverage. The Lawrence-based alcohol distributor was named one of the top wholesale distributors in the entire country by Budweiser's parent company. As a reward, the ...
In recent days, Douglas County has crossed a COVID threshold that at one point would have led to celebration: We’re in Code Green, the lowest COVID risk tier established by county health leaders.
But don’t celebrate quite yet, and certainly not without a mask.
While the Code Green designation is a sign that COVID cases have fallen to recent lows, the local health department is backtracking from its ...
