If this Saturday you see a Wells Fargo stagecoach driving down Massachusetts Street, you really won’t need to start wondering what was in that eggnog you just drank. Your eyes won’t be playing tricks on you. It will just be a small bit of Christmas cheer on a day that usually has a huge amount of it in downtown Lawrence.
Saturday is the day that normally would bring 40,000 to 50,000 people to downtown and ...
If Clark Griswold from the the classic comedy “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” wrote a business plan, surely it would look something like this: More than a mile’s worth of Christmas lights strung through a couple of downtown Lawrence buildings, and an old camper parked out front for good measure.
That is indeed the scene at Snow Globe, a new pop-up bar and restaurant from a couple of Lawrence ...
There certainly have been times I’ve entered a bank branch worried that my account will be empty. Now, it appears there are times I may enter a bank branch to find the actual branch empty — as in no employees. Indeed, Bank of America is opening a new type of branch in Lawrence.
The company on Monday will open a new branch at 4701 Bauer Farm Drive. If you are having a hard time picturing the location, it ...
The one-block stretch of 14th Street between Ohio and Tennessee long has created dilemmas for Lawrence police officers.
It is the center of a bar district at the edge of the University of Kansas campus, so you can imagine the types of questions a police officer has to wrestle with while on patrol there.
Here’s one, though, for the pandemic age: Just hours after the local health department urgently issues a ...
A long-simmering, multimillion-dollar debate between LMH Health and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas came into full view Wednesday morning as the hospital questioned the future of its relationship with the area’s largest health insurance provider.
Members of the nonprofit hospital’s board of trustees were told that negotiations between LMH Health and BCBS of Kansas were no longer progressing well and that ...
Even before the pandemic, a part of the Lawrence economy was ailing — county residents were seeing their incomes grow at one of the slowest rates in the state.
New federal numbers released Tuesday show that income growth in Douglas County ranked 101st out of the 105 counties in Kansas in 2019. Yes, you remember 2019, a time when masks were for bank robbers and toilet paper supplies weren’t a leading cause ...
