The movement in Douglas County right now is to save rural farmland, which has created an interesting question for a pending project in North Lawrence. Where do you park the tractors?
Plans have been filed for a 35,000-square-foot building to be constructed on a North Lawrence farm field along U.S. Highway 24/59 just north of the city limits. Most of the building will serve as an equipment shed for tractors and ...
Maybe while you’ve been in lockdown mode during this pandemic, you’ve wanted to climb the walls. Soon there will be a new spot in Lawrence that makes a business of it, and it may change the downtown skyline in the process.
All the way back in January, we briefly reported that plans had been filed to convert the building at 714 Vermont St. into a climbing gym. Well, those plans have continued to advance, ...
Drive-thru coffee has been known to get me moving. (I don’t drink it, but I do spill it on my lap.) Now, maybe it will get a new west Lawrence commercial development moving as well.
Plans have been filed at City Hall that would clear the way for a drive-thru coffee shop to locate just off Clinton Parkway near Inverness Drive. If approved, it would be the first building in a Clinton Parkway commercial ...
A Lawrence landmark is now on a firmer financial foundation than it has been in years.
You may remember that in March we reported the United Way of Douglas County had reached a deal to move its offices into a portion of the historic Castle Tea Room building near 13th and Massachusetts streets.
Well, the nonprofit now will have company. A deal has been struck for a growing, Lawrence-based mental health ...
LMH Health is continuing to make progress in extending a contract with the local company that has been managing the hospital’s emergency department for more than 25 years.
A committee of medical professionals at the hospital was told at a special meeting Wednesday evening that contract negotiations with Lawrence Emergency Medicine Associates were going well. The contract had become a point of controversy ...
A Johnson County nonprofit is expanding its program to test asymptomatic people for the COVID-19 virus in Lawrence next week.
Lenexa-based Heart to Heart International will operate free testing sites for basically anyone in the community, Mark Gleeson, a Lawrence resident who works for the nonprofit told me.
It basically is the first real opportunity for large numbers of Douglas County residents to get a ...
