Sometimes I’ve been accused of making a real process of making a sandwich. (If the bread is the right size, a scoop shovel for the mayo is appropriate, I continue to contend.) But a new deli is coming to downtown that takes the process several steps further. It plans to prepare most of its own deli meat. “That means house-made corned beef and pastrami,” Chetan Michie, one of the owners of the new ...
A downtown Lawrence business is risking as much as $100,000 of its own money in an effort to get a new sport established in high schools and middle schools across the state. Sunflower Outdoor & Bike Shop has pledged the money to be used to start a new, competitive mountain biking league for Kansas students. “The simplest way to imagine it is high school and junior high school mountain biking as a ...
A U.S. passport doesn’t work as well as it used to in helping you see the world, but maybe a bowl of couscous will. (I wouldn’t suggest trying to hand it to the TSA officer at airport security though.) Of course, that’s not what I’m talking about it. Instead, food might be the most realistic way to experience faraway places right now, and the owner of a new Moroccan restaurant thinks his menu can ...
A taste of Taiwan has come to south Iowa Street, which in this case, means tea, and perhaps in ways that you've never tasted it before. Presotea recently opened in the shopping center at 2540 Iowa Street. If you are having a hard time picturing the location, it is the shopping center that houses the breakfast restaurant First Watch and is next door to Applebee’s. Soon, the center also may be known as the ...
Mortgage interest rates may be historically cheap, but the number of homes prospective buyers have to choose from in Lawrence also is near historic lows. The result in June was a local housing market on the downturn. The number of homes sold and their average selling prices both were down in June compared with a year ago, according to the latest report from the Lawrence Board of Realtors. Lawrence home sales ...
Most of the numbers in this pandemic haven’t been that welcome. This one might be: $129 million. Douglas County businesses and nonprofits got at least that much in low-cost, potentially forgivable federal loans. You might remember this spring when Congress approved the Paycheck Protection Program, which basically allowed businesses with fewer than 500 employees to apply for federally backed loans if they ...