Summer doesn’t end with a bang in Lawrence — but, maybe, a honk or two.
You know summer is over when the long line of vehicles — pillows crammed against the back window, a lamp dangling out the passenger door and a bundle of nerves and tears emanating from the cab — begin to accumulate around University of Kansas dormitories.
Those days are now upon us. Thursday and Friday are the big move-in days ...
A bit has changed in the world of corner grocery stores.
Finding one, of course, is the biggest change. A popular pastime for certain retiree groups is to try to recite all the locations that used to be a grocery store in Lawrence. Based on group tellings, they are numerous (and you had to walk uphill both ways to get to them.)
Maybe that last part is not entirely accurate. Most of them, in fact, were in ...
When Lawrence city commissioners conduct the city’s 2025 budget hearing on Tuesday, most casual observers likely will have a single question: What’s it going to do to my taxes?
Observers who are slightly more engaged might also have a question about the future of the city’s fire and medical department. The proposed budget would reduce the number of firefighters staffing a truck from four to three, in ...
Even a small drop in mortgage interest rates helped fuel an increase in Lawrence home sales in July, according to the latest report from the Lawrence Board of Realtors.
That may be a sign that the local home market may have a strong second half of the year, as mortgage rates have fallen even further recently and as national real estate observers expect lower rates still as the year winds down.
Lawrence home ...
The great thing about property taxes is they give you options to complain. One day you can complain that you are paying too much of them.
Another day, you can complain someone else is paying too little of them.
The complaint of too much happens when you get your tax bill. Even if your property tax rate didn’t go up, many years your tax bill has because home values have been rising.
As for the complaint ...
Reading a government’s financial audit can be a bit like reading Tolstoy: It is thick, dense and sometimes leaves you wanting vodka. But, it also can provide a good look at the big picture.
The City of Lawrence’s financial audit for 2023 is complete, and city commissioners will get a briefing of the document — which is the city’s official scorecard for its finances — at their Tuesday meeting.
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