About one out of every 10 jobs in Lawrence and Douglas County disappeared in 2020, according to the latest report from the Kansas Department of Labor. That’s already a pretty striking statistic on our pandemic times, but there’s an even more startling one if you dig deeper into the numbers: Douglas County has seen 22 years worth of job gains evaporate in a single year. When the state recently released ...
Finally, I have found a piano I’m qualified to play. Its keys are frozen and its upper cabinet has been converted into a wine rack. It is one of the items in North Lawrence’s new secondhand shop, Reclaimed by Michele. Owner Michele Johnson says the shop at 628 N. Second St. will be a place to find slightly funky items that have been reclaimed in new ways. The piano is an example of that. But Johnson said ...
I know one sure-fire way to grow the revenues of a glass company is to pay for my green fees, buy me a beverage and point me toward the fairway with the most homes. Evidently there are other ways too, as an East Lawrence glass company is undertaking a major expansion. I’ve also got updates on several other East Lawrence development projects, but let’s start with glass. Kennedy Glass has undertaken an ...
New efforts to fight COVID-19 appear likely to add more manufacturing jobs at a Lawrence-based plant. A local economic development official confirmed Tuesday that Plastikon Industries has won a key job that is expected to produce 50 new positions at its high-tech plant in the East Hills Business Park. The plant produces medical vials, and now it is adding a new production line that will fill and cap some ...
- Updated story: Douglas County announces it will start vaccinating people 65 and older; appointments for first clinic fill up in minutes The process for vaccinating a larger group of Douglas County residents, including the elderly and teachers, may win key approvals in the next day or two, leaders at Lawrence Memorial Hospital were told Wednesday. LMH leaders have begun putting together a pair of rapid ...
When I’m at the Douglas County 4-H Fair watching my children’s badly behaved 4-H hogs, I take a special type of comfort in ordering a pulled pork sandwich from one of the food trailers along the midway. Now, I can report one of those longstanding food trailers has opened its own full-time restaurant. The owners of the Barbwire Barbecue food trailer have opened a full-service restaurant in Eudora in recent ...