If you are keeping a running list, here’s another difference between New York’s Wall Street and Lawrence’s Iowa Street. On Wall Street, news of converging interests between banking and oil may completely change the direction of the market. On Iowa Street, it may well change the direction of my pickup truck. The big banking and oil convergence on Iowa Street is that plans have been filed for a vacant bank ...
LMH Health has reported the death of another COVID patient, but the county is starting to see signs of a slowdown in cases of the virus. Information about the death, which the hospital said occurred on Sunday, was scant. The death didn’t show up on the latest fatality county compiled by Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, which continues to list 94 total Douglas County deaths tied to COVID. LMH Health ...
The two last locally owned Lawrence banks have reached a deal to become one. Great American Bank, which is led by Lawrence businessman Doug Compton, has signed a deal to purchase The University National Bank, which is led by longtime Lawrence banker Todd Sutherland. Both banks are headquartered in Lawrence, which is really a rarity as several longtime locally owned banks such as Douglas County Bank and ...
Nathan Wolf wouldn’t be the first engineering student who has had to explain to his parents how his semester blew up. But no, this isn’t a story about how the dog ate his thermodynamics homework. This is about actually blowing stuff up. Wolf and a team of fellow students spent most of last semester designing a shoulder-fired missile while completing their studies at the University of Kansas’ School of ...
Most patients in Jefferson and Leavenworth counties who need an ambulance no longer will have the option to be taken to LMH Health, because of COVID-related challenges the Lawrence hospital is experiencing. Members of the LMH board of trustees were told that while COVID hospitalization numbers at LMH have stabilized somewhat, staffing challenges and other issues have caused the hospital to tighten its policy ...
Story updated at 2:57 p.m. Tuesday: A manufacturer of plastic drink cups is ramping up its Lawrence operations with a $60 million expansion that will add 84 jobs to the local workforce. Leaders with Berry Global announced Tuesday morning that it had chosen its Lawrence plant as the site of an expansion that will increase the company’s capacity to make the thermoform, polypropylene plastic cups that are used ...