Usually when I see a singing snowman, it is because I’ve gotten into a bad batch of eggnog. But this year, it is at least equally as likely because I’m at a whole new type of large Lawrence holiday event.
Three organizations have teamed up to create a new holiday light display that will take motorists through a west Lawrence sports complex to see nearly 20 holiday displays that will be synchronized to ...
At one point, this looked like a gimme — you know, the type of short, easy putt that you are not even required to tap in. A 30-year old golf course between Eudora and Lawrence wanted to add an indoor-outdoor driving range and a small restaurant to make the aging course more viable for the future.
The facility, Twin Oaks Golf, is located at the interchange of Kansas Highway 10 and County Route 1057, meaning ...
While we haven’t yet been able to rip off those masks, there are new signs that Lawrence’s economy has become unshackled from pandemic-era restrictions. In fact, one set of numbers shows retail spending is now well above pre-pandemic levels.
The Kansas Department of Revenue has released its May report on sales tax activity across the state. While the report is labeled as being for May, most of the numbers ...
In a completely different time, it was the masked men that you always wondered about. What are they hiding? Now it is the unmasked that create the question of our age: Are they really vaccinated?
It seems like that is the question holding back Douglas County from joining the legions of communities that have dumped their mask mandates. Commissioners last week declined to accept a recommendation from the ...
I want to clear up some understandable confusion that hovered around the Journal-World for much of Thursday.
Some of you may have seen posts or heard reports that the Journal-World signed a letter asking Gov. Laura Kelly to end $300-a-week unemployment benefits that currently are being paid to jobless Kansans. The existence of the letter was recently reported by The Associated Press, which said that about 180 ...
Corporate America is ready if Lawrence is. While local residents may have a divided mind over whether Douglas County should end its mask mandate, the community’s largest corporate retailers seemingly don’t have any such hesitancy.
Many of the largest retailers in the community have sent out press releases in recent days saying customers and employees who have been vaccinated don’t have to wear masks ...
