That whooshing noise you hear in your house now is probably just the furnace trying to keep up with a cold December day. In the past, though, you could be forgiven for mistaking it as the sound of your home soaring in value.
But the latest local data on home sales suggests that Lawrence’s multiyear period of home values increasing by 10% or more is now fully behind us.
For three straight years — 2020 ...
One of Douglas County’s biggest employers is set to get a new name — and a new boss.
Berry Global — which has multiple locations in and near Lawrence where it makes plastic cups and other such items — is in the process of being bought by a big international company.
Amcor — a plastics packaging company that is based in Switzerland but was founded in Australia — plans to combine with Berry Global ...
You thought there would be a break from the big questions.
After all, for more than a year, every news program on television, every other email in your inbox and seemingly every robocaller in the universe told you we were engaged in answering the question of our lifetime.
Biden or Trump?
Come to find out, it was a two-for-one special because we actually meant: Harris or Trump?
OK, we checked that box, or ...
Early Christmas shopping in my book means there’s still time to wrap the present in the car. Lawrence City Hall budget makers need to hope everybody else is reading from a different book.
The city is on pace to end 2024 with about a $900,000 budget shortfall in sales tax dollars, which is the largest source of revenue the city uses to fund its general operations. A strong surge in early holiday shopping is ...
The eastern side of Lawrence is set to get a Casey’s convenience store — without the sweet, sweet morning shame.
Plans have been filed at Lawrence City Hall that indicate the Sinclair Dino-Mart convenience store at 23rd and Harper streets will be converted to a new type of Casey’s store. The application says the location will become a “Goodstop by Casey’s” operation.
Maybe some of you are ...
The sounds of Christmas in downtown Lawrence aren’t always coming from a caroler or a brass horn. On one Saturday a year, it is a click and a clop — and an occasional whinny, too.
Indeed, horses — and decorated carriages and wagons — will take center stage on downtown Lawrence’s Massachusetts Street for the 31st annual Lawrence Old Fashioned Christmas Parade.
This year’s parade is set for 11 a.m. ...
