It was 6:45 a.m. last Saturday, and Steve and April Evans were 15 minutes into their walk on North Lawrence’s Kansas River levee trail.
That’s when April yelled: “We are being chased!”
Her husband, Steve, had walked many steps ahead of her to gain a better sight line of the city-sanctioned homeless camp that sits below the levee near Johnny’s Tavern. Steve had his camera because he needed to take ...
A local drainage district is accusing the City of Lawrence of locating its sanctioned homeless camp on drainage district property without receiving permission from the district.
The accusations have created questions about whether the city will have to alter operations at the camp, which is located by the Kansas River levee in North Lawrence, near Johnny’s Tavern.
The Kaw Drainage District notified the ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
