Baldwin City-based Baker University is now among the universities changing class schedules in response to coronavirus concerns. Baker already was scheduled to be on spring break from March 16 to March 20. But instead of resuming normal classes after spring break, the university will teach classes online from March 23 to April 3. On-campus housing will be closed during that period. Baker spokeswoman Dolores ...
If a castle is your office, perhaps you could get away with wearing your bathrobe to work if you pair it with a nice scepter and crown. The theory likely won’t be tested, but Lawrence’s historic Castle Tea Room is going to serve as a prominent Lawrence office. The local United Way has signed a deal to move its offices there later this spring. The United Way of Douglas County hopes to move into the old ...
There are signs that parts of Lawrence’s Kmart Distribution Center may remain open. As we reported in late January, the company filed a federal form warning employees and the community that it was planning to close its facility at 2400 Kresge Road and eliminate 111 jobs in the process. Plans called for the closing to happen near the end of March. That may still happen, but that is not the latest talk ...
After years without a one-hour eyeglass business, Lawrence residents now have two. We reported in October about a plan for a local startup to open a one-hour eyeglass business in North Lawrence. Now there is word of a bigger player setting up shop in south Lawrence. Eyemart Express opened in the shopping center at 2540 Iowa St. around the beginning of the year. “We have a state-of-the-art lab,” general ...
The thought of going directly to the factory to replace an appliance always appealed to me, especially when the nuclear reactor on my industrial-sized deep-fat fryer went out. That maybe isn’t an in-stock item at Lawrence’s Factory Direct Appliance store, but lots of kitchen and home appliances are. That’s soon changing. The store is closing its lone Lawrence location after about 20 years of business in ...
Instead of a mighty “ho, ho, ho,” it was more of a ho-hum holiday shopping season for local merchants, the latest Lawrence sales tax numbers suggest. The city recently received its February sales tax check from the state of Kansas. Because of ordinary delays in the state’s reporting time, the February check largely represents sales made in December. That, of course, is prime holiday shopping season. ...