Lawrence Memorial Hospital will begin administering COVID-19 vaccines this afternoon, LMH leaders were told this morning.
The first vaccinations are expected to begin about 1:30 p.m. at the hospital, but members of the general public shouldn’t travel to the hospital expecting to get a vaccination.
The first vaccinations will be limited to health care workers and first responders. Members of the general ...
As leaders at LMH Health look ahead to 2021, they expect the pandemic to have eased greatly by the second half of the year and for finances at the not-for-profit hospital to be on an upswing.
But they aren’t expecting it to be a year without threats. LMH will be on the lookout for competitors from the both the east and west to get more aggressive in the Lawrence market.
“The past practice of being able ...
Certain parts of Lawrence love a good Thomas Fritzel question. My phone started ringing after The Kansas City Star earlier this month published an article raising questions about the propriety of a $9 million federally backed, pandemic-related loan that was given to a little-known company tied to the Fritzel family.
I’ve been looking into the issue too. The Star’s article is definitely interesting, and the ...
It is easy to predict that the economic tally for Lawrence in 2020 won’t be pretty. It also is a good bet that the final analysis will show the 2020 downturn was fueled, in part, by tough times in the city’s rental market, as the pandemic caused hundreds — if not thousands — of students to decide they don’t need a local apartment to attend online classes.
But a new set of federal numbers suggests ...
Lawrence’s oldest Italian restaurant is set to close by the end of the year — with no plans to reopen elsewhere — as a new convenience store development is set to take its place.
Paisano’s Ristorante permanently will close no later than Dec. 31, owner and operator Steve Butland told me. As we reported in August, development plans for a new Kwik Shop convenience store have been filed for Holiday Plaza ...
Hector Juarez grew up in the border town of El Paso, Texas, so he knows something about both Tex and Mex. For one, he knows that particular style of Americanized Mexican food isn’t always what people are looking for. Or, at least, he thinks that is the case. A new Mexican restaurant in eastern Lawrence is set to find out.
Cascada la Golondrina has opened in the shopping center at 23rd and Harper streets, and ...
