- 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 ...
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 ...
