One of the mission projects that Velocity Church pastor and co-founder Justin Jenkins is particularly proud of is an effort that gave away an entire semitrailer of groceries to people in need. Maybe he should have sensed at that moment that his church was destined to become one of the biggest in the city by moving into a former grocery store building.
Indeed, that is the plan for Velocity Church. It has filed ...
I’m not at all complaining — or psychoanalyzing — that I got an ear hair trimmer for Christmas. That said, there is some evidence of Grinchlike behavior in Lawrence this holiday shopping season. Sales tax numbers for the key holiday shopping period were down in Lawrence — and more so than they were statewide.
Lawrence City Hall recently received its February sales tax check from the state of Kansas. ...
Earlier this month as rolling power blackouts crawled across Kansas, a couple of numbers stuck in the minds of residents: 20 below zero and 1 hour.
The first was the outside temperature in many parts of the state. The second was the maximum amount of time that Evergy, the state’s largest electric utility, originally had estimated any home would be without power during the winter storm.
Those estimates ...
Homeowners who generate their own solar power to supply part of their electricity needs will no longer be charged a special fee by the state’s largest electric utility, Kansas regulators have ruled.
The Kansas Corporation Commission on Thursday issued an order that repeals a special rate system for customers of Evergy who produce their own power through solar panels or other means.
The ruling means that ...
Crab and lobster are essential foods because I’ve been told it is uncouth to put that much butter directly into your mouth. In other words, I like a lot of butter on my shellfish, and a soon-to-open Lawrence restaurant is betting lots of other people will too.
Signs have gone up for Krustaceans Seafood to open at 947 New Hampshire St., which is the spot that formerly housed the Bayleaf Indian restaurant. The ...
There aren’t big business jets that land on the grass runway at the Vinland airport. But there sure are a lot of jobs landing at the country airstrip between Baldwin City and Lawrence.
About every couple of years, it seems like McFarlane Aviation builds another 20,000-square-foot building, or more, to house more jobs for a booming business that supplies replacement parts for airplanes across the country. ...
