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 ...
Years ago, tourism leaders used to call every weekend that featured a home KU football game a million-dollar weekend. I don’t know what impact price inflation and fan deflation have had on that figure, but the point is still the same: The local economy gets a big-dollar boost by spending from football fans.
So it shouldn’t be a surprise that the latest retail sales figures for Lawrence show that September ...
The pandemic has delayed much this year, but leaders at LMH Health have decided it should speed up one thing — pay raises at the hospital.
At a special meeting Thursday evening, LMH’s board of trustees approved a 2.5% pay increase for hospital employees for 2021. But instead of waiting until the new year, the board agreed to make the pay increase effective on Dec. 13. In addition, the hospital has decided ...
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 ...
