I’m one of those guys who bring their golf swing to the softball diamond and their softball swing to the golf course. Soon, though, I may be out of excuses.
Plans have been filed at Lawrence City Hall to convert a part of a former grocery store building into a new type of indoor sports and entertainment venue. It indeed would have both batting cages and golf simulators under one roof. It also would have a ...
Lawrence and Douglas County are getting more serious about cultivating start-up businesses, and if you don’t believe it, there will be 25,000 examples to point to next month.
A pair of local organizations are teaming up to host the second annual Douglas County Pitch Competition, where entrepreneurs can pitch their ideas for new ventures to judges who will award $25,000 in prize money to the winners.
That ...
There’s a chance thousands of University Kansas students who were shut out of in-person classes in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic might win partial refunds for tuitions and fees they paid KU that semester.
If those refunds ever come — which is still very much in question — they may have to thank, in part, Kansas State University students.
Attorneys for students and KU spent more than an hour on ...
Stan Hernly knows the possibilities of old homes. After all, he started his Lawrence architecture practice in an old home along Tennessee Street.
It was more than 35 years ago that he founded his architecture practice, Hernly Associates, in that 1907 house, and since then the firm has grown and done all types of projects — ranging from 200 square feet to 200,000 square feet, with price tags between $1,000 ...
Not every street is like Wall Street.
There, occupants are never very far from a daily ticker — or metaphors of bulls and bears — measuring prosperity or decline for those in the financial industry.
But on Massachusetts Street and elsewhere in Lawrence, high finance isn’t the engine of the economy. Here, higher education is the force that makes the wheels turn.
There’s no handy daily ticker to ...
There’s a clear sign that Whataburger is moving forward on opening its first Lawrence location — and it is not in the fast-food chain’s trademark orange. Instead, it is yellow, and plenty big.
A big, yellow, trackhoe excavator has been demolishing the former Mi Ranchito restaurant building at 707 W. 23rd St. this week. That indeed is the announced location of a new Whataburger restaurant.
Survey crews ...
