Soon, any night could be — legally — your own Martini Mosey on the sidewalks of Massachusetts Street in downtown Lawrence.
What’s more, with drink in hand, you could take that Stoli Stroll (we’re not going to run out of liquor or alliteration) into retail shops and other such businesses that don’t serve alcohol.
City Hall leaders have begun reaching out to downtown merchants and other businesses ...
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There’s a saying about having your cake and eating it too. (That dilemma has never kept me awake at night, although too much buttercream frosting occasionally does.) Regardless, I guess the saying applies to Lawrence home sales in May. The number of homes sold in the market increased, but the average selling price decreased.
In other words, it was good news on both the ...
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Call it the duck test, if you will. In the Oread neighborhood next to KU, if something looks like a big house — and all too often sounds like a big house — it is usually a big house. The neighborhood after all is full of students, and they love living and congregating in big houses.
With that said, construction work is well underway on a project in the Oread neighborhood ...
Opponents of a 600-acre solar project proposed for north of North Lawrence have amended their lawsuit against Douglas County to include new allegations of impropriety involving County Commissioner Karen Willey.
The lawsuit now alleges that Willey worked behind the scenes to get a nonprofit organization that her husband worked for hired as a consultant on the Kansas Sky Energy Center project. Further, the new ...
Updated at 9:50 a.m. Friday, June 21
Soon, turnpike toll booth workers will be a job of the past in Kansas, as the turnpike will eliminate all toll booths as part of a cashless tolling system that begins July 1.
But Lawrence is set to have a whole new crop of turnpike jobs emerge. Lawrence has been chosen as a site for a new Kansas Turnpike Authority retail center, which also will house a call center for ...
A surge is coming.
Within a few weeks, electric lines leading into the $4 billion Panasonic electric vehicle battery factory in De Soto will be hot with up to 290 megawatts of electricity. The employment lines at the plant — just about 20 minutes from eastern Lawrence — will be full, with the plant hiring at least 100 new employees per month for the foreseeable future. And the biggest surge will be at the ...
