Lawrence City Manager Craig Owens understands that residents are particularly focused on one part of his 2025 recommended budget — the proposed 3.5 mill property tax rate increase.
If approved, the 3.5 mill increase would be the city’s largest property tax rate increase in at least 50 years. While that is an eye-catcher, Owens does wish the public would pay a bit more attention to one other line that was ...
The Lawrence Arts Center is suddenly looking for a new leader after the immediate resignation of chief executive officer Margaret Weisbrod Morris.
Morris resigned her position with the Arts Center on Wednesday, and the board of the nonprofit has not yet determined who will be the interim director of the community’s leading arts organization.
“It was fast,” Meredith Lang, chair of the Lawrence Arts ...
Lawrence residents without electrical power should have it restored by Friday evening, Evergy officials said this morning.
Evergy, the state’s largest electric utility, said as of 10 a.m. Friday, about 4,500 customers remained without power throughout their Kansas service territory. The company listed about 800 customers in Lawrence were without power as of Friday morning.
“Power will be restored for ...
Lawrence is poised to grow over the next 50 years. In fact, a new report from Wichita State University says Lawrence has the ingredients to be the fastest growing community in the state between now and 2072.
Whether it will have the housing is another matter.
Lawrence landed atop the list of fastest growing communities in Kansas when WSU economists recently compiled their statewide population projection ...
If you thought the race for Douglas County District Attorney was drawing some interest, the latest campaign finance reports surely will back up your contention. The three-way race to be the Democratic nominee has drawn nearly $90,000 in campaign contributions thus far, which is a historically high number.
Most of the money has gone to one candidate: Democratic challenger and Lawrence attorney Dakota Loomis has ...
Plans have been filed to convert a former rural school house between Lawrence and Eudora into a day care home for adults with developmental disabilities.
The site — the former Kaw Valley School building at 1411 East 1850 Road — had been under consideration by the city of Lawrence and other partners to serve as a shelter for homeless families, as the Journal-World reported in April.
This new filing with ...
