When it comes to cages, give me a circus cage with a lion in it over a batting cage with a pitching machine that throws curveballs. (It is more humiliating to get eaten alive with a bat in your hands.)
Lawrence has a new baseball and softball training business that indeed features such high-tech pitching machines, and its owner confirmed to me that hitting that curveball can be a little tough on the ego. ...
The general manager for the Kansas natural gas division of Black Hills Energy is now based in Lawrence.
The South Dakota-based utility recently promoted Ward Slocum to general manager of Kansas operations, and made the decision to locate the general manager in the company’s offices on North Iowa Street in Lawrence.
Previously, Wichita had served as the home base for the general manager of the company’s ...
I know many of you are already aware of the main risk of living along a golf course: Errant shots. (Followed by me standing in your living room asking for advice on how to play the ball off the Berber.) But there is a lesser-known risk too — the golf course disappears.
Residents along a portion of the Jayhawk Club — the private golf facility in west Lawrence — are learning that risk currently. One day ...
A $17 million project to build nearly 50 units of affordable housing for seniors along New Hampshire Street in downtown Lawrence won its key approvals from the state of Kansas on Thursday.
But the developer of the project is betting that’s just step No. 1 in a series of events that could transform the entire southern end of downtown.
“I got the good word today. It might be the best word I’ve ever ...
Earth-moving equipment on a golf course isn’t a standard sight (although filling the pond in before you hit is wise due to the difficulty of getting a good swing with the scuba gear on). Regardless, there is a growing amount of equipment on a driving range and small golf course east of Lawrence.
The owner of the Twin Oaks Golf Complex along Kansas Highway 10 between Lawrence and Eudora confirmed to me that ...
Douglas County commissioners long have had significant amounts of money for local nonprofits and community organizations. Now, though, commissioners have a lot of questions for those groups too.
Commissioners at their Monday meeting expressed interest in creating a new philosophy for how they fund about 40 social service, economic development, health care and other nonprofits that routinely receive county ...
