Even if we are browsing through the clearance items at the Goodwill store, all of us Lawrence shoppers can feel like we are almost part of an exclusive club — the $2 billion club.
Lawrence fell just short of posting $2 billion in total retail sales in 2023, which would have made it just one of six communities in the state to do so.
Now that the Kansas Department of Revenue has released its final sales tax ...
Parades should be just swell in 2024. The same might be said for community chili suppers and other such gatherings. And, oh my, how pretty the state’s roadsides will be with red and blue signs that contain what surely will be the 2024 Word of the Year: Elect.
Yes, this year is not just an election year, but rather the deluxe model of election years. In addition to the presidential election, it also is an ...
A brownie swallows a chocolate chip cookie, and then I swallow both of them. Such a feat is not just possible in fever dreams any longer. It is a real deal at a new west Lawrence cookie shop.
Dirty Dough has been open several weeks in the shopping center at Bob Billings Parkway and Wakarusa Drive, and it indeed has on its menu the “Brookie.” It is described as a treat whose exterior is brownie dough, but ...
Lawrence has finished 2023 with a nearly $3 million budget shortfall in sales tax collections, according to year-end numbers provided by the state.
The shortfall comes as sales tax collections continued to grow in Lawrence, but did so at a rate much slower than the last couple of years. The budget shortfall — I've calculated it at $2.7 million — won’t be fatal for the city. It has an overall annual ...
After 15 years of housing homeless families in various churches one week at a time, a Lawrence nonprofit is working on a deal to open its own homeless shelter in a former children’s day care center.
Lawrence’s Family Promise organization has filed plans with City Hall to convert a longtime day care building at 200 Mount Hope Court into a facility that could house up to six homeless families at any given ...
It is bad enough to have a Grinch in your midst during the Christmas season. But organizers of a popular holiday fundraiser are finding it may be even worse to be missing a Gator.
Volunteers for the nonprofit Lawrence Lights are lamenting the theft of an approximately $20,000 utility vehicle — a John Deere Gator — from the site of its west Lawrence holiday lights display.
The Gator was donated for use by ...
