The chair of the Kansas Board of Regents said Wednesday that he wants university employees across the state to know the Regents are closely watching efforts by state lawmakers to potentially limit diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
And he wants state legislators to know he hopes they will work with university leaders rather than passing new laws on DEIB issues.
“Legislative action must be reserved ...
There is nothing unusual about a Perrins winning a Douglas County Spelling Bee.
Maci Perrins, a Langston Hughes Elementary student, won the county spelling bee last year, and she repeated as champion on Saturday, besting 23 other spellers to claim the 2024 county spelling bee title at an event at Lawrence’s Billy Mills Middle School.
Perrins was keeping up the family tradition, following her sister ...
Downtown Lawrence’s nearly 15 years without a pharmacy and drugstore ended a couple of weeks ago.
Already, you are starting to see downtown Lawrence change in small ways. One such small (but not trivial) way: toilet paper.
On Friday, while I was at the newly opened Sigler Medical Arts Pharmacy — located in the old Capitol Federal bank branch at 10th and Vermont streets — there was a man there who had ...
You know what they say about a kid in a candy store.
He’ll either bounce off the wall or stick to it. (On second thought, maybe that is just what they said about me, and why we didn’t often stop at one.)
No, the more conventional saying has something to do with all the joy and happiness such a visit creates. That’s all true, but Jhami Guffey, an owner of the new Squishington’s candy shop in downtown ...
A couple of news and notes from around town:
Given that the weather felt like 40-below zero not long ago, perhaps few people noticed that a new Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop planned for 23rd Street was taking a long time to open.
But I did, because I absolutely still ate ice cream even when it was that cold. (It actually was the best time to order a triple dip — you could eat one while you stored the ...
The highly caffeinated “bros” are coming to Lawrence. Dutch Bros. Coffee has filed plans with Lawrence City Hall to build a new drive-thru coffee shop along south Iowa Street.
The shop will be the first in Lawrence for the West Coast company, and it will be taking a spot that once was set aside for an expanding Arkansas chain of coffee shops. Dutch Bros. plans to build its new 950-square foot drive-thru ...
