Fireworks went on sale at 7 a.m. Monday in Douglas County, but it took the staff at Bartz Fireworks, at Teepee Junction along U.S. Highway 24, until 11 a.m. to set up their inventory. Jeff Himes was unpacking cases of fireworks known as Ghost Rider 9’s on a table already laden with enough Roman candles, bottle rockets and sparklers to illuminate the sky outside of Lawrence for hours. Managing the fireworks ...
Jim Hart lost his appetite after a scorpion appeared on the bratwurst he was grilling at Clinton Lake last week. The Eudora resident, his girlfriend, Tina Odgen, and her son, Ethan Harris, 13, were camping at the lake when Hart said they encountered several scorpions. “I’m 56 years old and I have never seen one before and never heard of them in Kansas,” said the startled Hart. “Ethan found the first ...
Robin Byer brought along several canvas bags to carry home her groceries from Checkers Foods Friday morning. “It’s so hard to remember all the time,” she said about bringing the bags from her car into the store. “There is a learning curve for everything.” Byer was one of several Lawrence grocery shoppers the Journal-World spoke with Friday regarding their thoughts on the recent recommendation by ...
Young rockers who’ve spent a week jamming and writing music will take the stage at the Granada this weekend for the fifth annual Girls Rock Lawrence Showcase. During the five-day Girls Rock Lawrence Camp at the Lied Center, 30 girls and transgender youth got a crash course in writing and playing music on a variety of instruments. Tyler Novaria, one of the volunteer coordinators of the camp, said the campers ...
Kelsey King sat patiently Monday afternoon while a volunteer brushed her hair into a high ponytail for her role as the Genie in this weekend's Penguin Project performance of Disney’s “Aladdin Jr.” at Theatre Lawrence. Eleanor Roust, Kelsey’s mentor, stood nearby, concerned that her own ponytail wouldn’t go up as high. Not that the two had to be identical, but they wanted to look like the team they ...
A search for the next president of Haskell Indian Nations University continues after a round of interviews failed to produce a strong candidate, according to Bureau of Indian Education officials who were in Lawrence Tuesday. In early June the position was reopened through Sept. 30, according to Jackie Shamblin, human resources officer for the BIE, who along with Tony Dearman, director of the Bureau of Indian ...