The pandemic soon will bring to an end a longtime downtown Lawrence business — but probably not in the way you are thinking. Instead of running Stitch On Needlework Shop, 926 Massachusetts St., out of business, the pandemic is steering the shop’s owner to a new way of thinking about retail.
Owner Leslie Ahlert will close the store in July after 37 years of doing traditional retail in downtown Lawrence. She ...
Not only is an appointment for a COVID vaccine no longer as rare as a winning lottery ticket, but appointments soon won’t be required at all in Douglas County.
LMH Health next month will start hosting a five-day-per-week drive-thru clinic at the hospital that will allow people to get a vaccination without any advance appointment.
There is a simple reason vaccinations have gone from lotto to lots of them. ...
A longtime Lawrence doctor's office is set to be sold to a large nonprofit hospital corporation, creating questions about whether the local health care market is about to become a whole lot more competitive.
AdventHealth — which operates what used to be known as the Shawnee Mission Medical Center system in Kansas City — is close to finalizing a deal to buy Family Medicine Associates, a four-doctor practice ...
A grocery store with a machine that makes fresh peanut butter can keep me enthralled for hours. Just imagine if a grocery store came equipped with pool tables. If they are next to the snack food aisle, I might bring a tent. Soon, I may get a chance to find out. A local businessman is opening a new Mexican market that will be partially about food, but also about creating a needed gathering place for the Latino ...
In the fundraising world, there is nothing quite like a check without strings.
Think of a check that doesn’t come with any instructions on a particular building it should construct, a specific academic field it should support, or even a desire to see more wins on the football field. It is simply a check to be used for whatever is needed — or maybe simply wanted – at the moment.
In the field of higher ...
KU Endowment provided just over $160 million worth of support to the University of Kansas during its last fiscal year, financial statements show.
That actually was the smallest amount of support in the last five years, but records show that almost entirely is due to a slowdown in construction projects at the university.
The amount of endowment funding that goes to faculty support — think endowed ...
