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 ...
The University of Kansas doesn’t have plans to eliminate any of its money-losing Olympic sports despite great uncertainty about whether the athletic department can afford to pay student-athletes in the future, KU’s chancellor said.
The future of those programs — which range from big ones like track and field to smaller ones like golf and tennis — has been the focus of speculation across the country as a ...
