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. ...
Panera Bread — with its menu of soups, sandwiches and sweets — has filed plans to locate in west Lawrence. Now, the question is whether the new store is a sign that central Lawrence is about to lose its lone Panera location.
Panera has plans to locate in a vacant fast food building in the Bauer Farms retail development that is northeast of the Sixth Street and Wakarusa Drive intersection, according to a ...
In the latest bowl matchup, it is beans versus chickpeas. (Bet on the chickpeas to get smashed. They’re best that way.) Wait, this isn’t the latest college football bowl. This is a battle of fast-food restaurants — one that’s made a big name for itself serving beans and rice and another who hopes to do so by bringing some Mediterranean flavors to the contest.
A new California chain has chosen Lawrence ...
