Lawrence restaurants aren’t fully open yet, but already some of you have been asking whether their employees will be required to wear masks when they do start serving dine-in customers again.
Formal guidelines haven’t yet been announced by local public health officials, but if a group of restaurant leaders have their way, diners are going to be seeing masks at every turn and table.
Rick Martin, co-chair ...
Updated at 12:15 p.m. Monday
More than 220 LMH Health employees will temporarily be losing their paychecks as the hospital struggles to deal with revenue declines of more than $1 million per week since the pandemic began.
LMH confirmed Monday morning that it has notified 221 employees that they will be furloughed for various periods while the nonprofit hospital works to deal with revenue shortfalls largely ...
At downtown Lawrence’s Rally House, the hoped-for outcome is right there in its name: a rally. But shoppers for the most part didn’t even stir, let alone rally, on the first day that many “nonessential retailers” were allowed to reopen following an easing of Douglas County’s stay-at-home orders.
At about 2:45 p.m. on Monday, a clerk at the sportswear shop Rally House said the store had one customer ...
I know what the prominent style changes have been in my quarantine-era home: claw marks on the inside of the front door and the elimination of all full-length mirrors. (Wear pants, people.) Normally, though, I’m getting up to date on new housing styles at the Lawrence Spring Parade of Homes. The event — originally scheduled for last weekend and this weekend — is still giving home-lovers a peek at new ...
The downtown Lawrence boutique Striped Cow is getting much bigger. (Join the club. As the saying goes these days, I’ve social distanced from everything but the refrigerator door.) But owner David Jess is betting this is an expansion to get excited about, hopefully even showing how brick-and-mortar retail can compete with online retailers.
As we reported in September, Jess struck a deal to buy the former ...
Story updated 5:50 p.m. Thursday
Douglas County’s estimated unemployment rate is now up to 14.8%, but the number of county residents making new unemployment filings has hit its lowest level since mid-March, when the pandemic began shuttering businesses across the state.
The estimated unemployment rate for the county is up 1.2 percentage points from a 13.6% rate last week, as estimated by the University of ...
