A crowd of about 40 people gathered at Haskell Indian Nations University on Wednesday for a Veterans Day celebration that included traditional commemorative speeches and Native American musical and spiritual traditions.
Yes, I will hike up a hill for a cinnamon roll, but I may roll back down it if I have one too many. For folks not quite up for that adventure, a bakery at the top of Mount Oread is now expanding to flatter ground on Iowa Street. McLain’s Market has signed a deal to locate in the old Slim Chickens restaurant building at 2412 Iowa St. The Kansas City-based bakery and restaurant chain hopes to be open in early ...
Maybe it should be no surprise that in 2020, where one month feels like one year, Lawrence is seeing some new projects geared toward an aging population. Plans have been filed at City Hall for two new living communities that focus on serving seniors. The first is an expansion of an existing west Lawrence memory care center. Bridge Haven has filed plans to construct its fourth new building at its location at ...
A company best known for providing Lawrence homes has a new home of its own, and it also is spending more time than ever doing business outside of Lawrence. First Management — which owns and operates hundreds of apartments in Lawrence — has finished work on a new corporate headquarters in North Lawrence. The company — which includes the related firm First Construction — has moved from its downtown ...
When it comes to Donald Trump and Kansas, not much has changed in four years — even to a tenth of a point. As I started going through the unofficial election results from last night, I noticed a statistical coincidence that seems worth passing along. According to the unofficial statewide vote totals, Trump received 56.7% of the total vote in Kansas. When I went back to look at the 2016 statewide election ...
As crowd sizes have shrunk, the financial losses at Kansas Athletics Inc. have grown to the point that leaders were told Wednesday to expect about a $10.4 million loss for the current fiscal year. The department will use a portion of a $20 million line of credit to cover the unexpected losses that have resulted from disruptions related to the pandemic, board members of the University of Kansas entity were told ...