Power tools and health care aren’t commonly paired together, unless doctors are trying to explain what they'll do to my arteries if I don’t cut down on the sweets. But I’ve got a story that legitimately pairs them today. One of Lawrence’s largest tool and equipment rental companies is leaving its longtime home to make way for a major expansion of a nonprofit health care provider.
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A new year has ended an old trend at Lawrence City Hall. The city released its first sales tax report of 2020, and it shows not only did sales tax collections fall for the month, but so too did the amount of special sales taxes the city collects from online sales. That online decline was the first in more than a year for Lawrence.
The report detailed the amount of sales taxes the city received from the state ...
Every time I’ve tried to figure out whether the chicken or the egg came first, I’ve never gotten past the research stage of a plate of scrambled eggs and a basket of chicken fingers. Now, it appears my research is going to be even more difficult. One of Lawrence’s relatively new chain chicken restaurants has closed.
Zaxby’s hung a sign on the door of its lone Lawrence location at 4661 Bauer Farm Drive ...
Lawrence is set to feel the pain from one beleaguered retailer: Kmart, which is closing its Lawrence distribution center. But the city might get an employment boost from another long-struggling retailer that seems poised to make a major job announcement in Lawrence. The company may surprise you: Payless Shoesource.
Two sources have confirmed to me that Payless has reached a deal to relocate virtually all of ...
Just two years after an expansion project, a Lawrence manufacturing plant is set to close, costing nearly 100 people their jobs.
API Americas announced in a federally required filing that it intends to close its manufacturing plant in the East Hills Business park within the next 60 days. The plant produces foils, films, holographic finishes and other such products that are used to create fancy packaging ...
Updated at 4:30 p.m. Thursday
Kmart soon will close its large distribution center in Lawrence, eliminating more than 100 local jobs in the process, the Journal-World has learned.
A source with knowledge of the situation confirmed that the beleaguered retailer has filed a WARN notice — a federal filing required when companies undertake mass layoffs — stating that the Kmart Distribution Center at 2400 ...
