Lawrence Superintendent Anthony Lewis is a long way from Montgomery, Ala. — the “Cradle of the Confederacy” — where he began his teaching career. Now, he’s a leader in a community that was founded as part of the struggle to end slavery. Regardless of its founding by abolitionists, Lawrence still has a lot of work to do on racial justice and ought to find some of that long-ago urgency of its founders, ...
The idea of a food find in 2020 was a bit unusual. There were some days early in the pandemic that you were happy to find a crate of ramen and a bottle of ketchup on the grocery shelves. (With candlelight and a mask placed over your eyes, you would swear you were at the finest Italian restaurant this side of your laundry room.) But let’s face it, food disappearances were a lot more common in 2020. It was a ...
The only reason I ever considered taking geometry at KU was to better understand pizza strategy. (I learned when I’m really hungry, I have my pizza pie cut into 16 pieces instead of 12.) In other words, pizza is a big deal in Lawrence, which makes it hard to believe that the third-largest pizza chain in America doesn’t already operate in Lawrence. Soon, though, it will. Little Caesars is set to open a new ...
The home improvement game is competitive locally. And I’m not just talking about when my neighbor added a Jacuzzi and I added a swimming pool with a 747 engine to outdo him. No, I’m talking about the competition between home improvement retailers. Now there are signs that one of those retailers is expanding, but it is probably not the one you are thinking of. McCray Lumber, 1516 W. Sixth St., has filed ...
Properties, of course, can’t catch COVID, but one prominent piece of vacant ground along Sixth Street got sick from the pandemic nonetheless. I’m talking about the vacant commercial lot at the northwest corner of Sixth Street and Folks Road. As other pieces of property in growing northwest Lawrence developed, it continued to sit empty. That may change as plans have been filed for a new pharmacy and health ...
We all got new hobbies in 2020, and for many it was pushing the “Buy Now” button on the computer screen. 2021’s hobby may be finding a place to store it all. (As I’ve already explained, I didn’t think the Jumbotron would be that jumbo.) Regardless, area residents soon might have a new self-storage business to choose from in far west Lawrence. “Might” is the key word in that statement. The project ...