Up to 100 Lawrence nursing home residents will have to find a new home following a surprise announcement that the longtime retirement facility Brandon Woods at Alvamar is closing its nursing home unit.
Already, family members are worried about the scene that may play out as they begin searching all at once for scarce nursing home beds.
“I think it is going to be like a land rush,” Jeff Blair said of his ...
I have a hard time believing that I ever would fall asleep in a dentist’s chair. (I make sure I eat a pound of candy beforehand because my dentist’s selection, quite frankly, stinks.) But in the field of sedation dentistry, getting someone so comfortable that they fall asleep in the chair is a sign of success.
A pair of longtime Lawrence dental practices have merged and constructed a new west Lawrence ...
When you work with 6-foot tall chickens, having the right amount of space is important. Considerations like those are behind plans filed by a Lawrence businessman and artist to set up shop in a North Lawrence industrial location.
Mike Riggs is seeking a special permit from Lawrence City Hall to locate Riggs Fabrication at an existing industrial space at 912 N. Third St. in North Lawrence. For the past five ...
Will Soo, owner of Lawrence’s new Lucky Seb’s Dumpling Bar & Grill, is the mastermind behind a Chinese-style dumpling stuffed with a traditional loaded American baked potato. What’s going on in that mind to create that combination?
“I’m Chinese American,” Soo said. “I was born here and grew up in the Midwest with an identity crisis. This food is just a mashup of what I liked growing up.” ...
If you remember back in January, the big news was that every man, woman and child would soon be getting a $600 COVID-19 relief check from the federal government. Well, the checks certainly came, and in most Kansas communities, a big boost in spending followed. But that wasn’t the case in Lawrence.
The latest sales tax numbers from Kansas officials show that Lawrence’s business activity is off to the ...
It is one thing as a dean at the University of Kansas to be asked to make sweeping cuts to your department to help the overall university deal with frightening budget shortfalls. It is another thing to be asked to do so without the benefit of some of the most basic financial statements for your department.
One is like the pressure of a particularly tough final exam. The other is like the pressure of a ...
