From workers on top of a roof to a 13-year-old with a big sign for his favorite nurse at LMH Health — his mom — Lawrence took a moment on Tuesday to stop and watch a flyover that was designed to thank health care workers and first responders during the coronavirus pandemic. A total of 19 planes from two Kansas-City-based aviation clubs, BeechNutz and KC Flight, flew over Lawrence's hospital and fire stations ...
Look up to the Lawrence skies tomorrow to see a little bit of thanks for the frontline workers battling COVID-19. More specifically, brush that Sasquatch hairdo out of your eyes and you’ll see an old-fashioned flyover. A pair of aviation teams from Kansas City plan to take to the Lawrence skies near 1:30 p.m. to conduct a flyover to thank health care workers and others who are serving patients. The Lawrence ...
There are no shortages of industries to feel sorry for during this pandemic, but new figures suggest employees in the arts, entertainment and recreation sector may be the hardest hit in Kansas thus far. More than one out of every three workers in that industry are now likely unemployed in Kansas, according to the latest data. While the industry doesn’t have the largest number of actual people unemployed — ...
In the old days — i.e. two months ago — a T-shirt with a message on its back warning people to stay at least 6 feet away would have seemed crass. Somebody surely would have made a joke that it was a public health message. Now, of course, it actually is, and a Lawrence neighborhood is making and selling such shirts. The North Lawrence Improvement Association has partnered with North Lawrence-based Happy ...
Another 1,200 Douglas County residents filed for unemployment insurance last week, as nearly 60,000 Kansans received unemployment payments of some kind. In its weekly report, the Kansas Department of Labor says 30,786 people last week made initial claims for unemployment benefits. Those are still historically high numbers, but they represent a big decline from initial unemployment claims during the last two ...
A return to normal face-to-face classes this fall at the University of Kansas and other Regents schools is far from a certainty, the state’s higher education leaders were told Wednesday. Members of the Kansas Board of Regents heard a variety of updates on how schools are planning to deal with fall-semester classes in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. While university leaders did not provide specific details ...