Nate Ditzler’s artwork is influenced by wherever he currently calls home. For the past year, Ditzler has been the ceramic artist-in-residence at the Lawrence Arts Center. Before coming to Kansas he lived in West Palm Beach, Fla., where he was an artist-in-residence at the Armory Art Center. When his Lawrence residency is finished at the end of July, he’ll leave for a residency at Midwestern State ...
Story updated at 6 p.m. Friday A strong thunderstorm raced through Lawrence about 9:30 a.m. Friday, downing power lines, trees and branches. As of 6 p.m., Westar Energy's website was reporting power outages at 1,211 households around the city. As many as 7,700 customers were without power on Friday morning. “Most of the damage we are hearing about are power lines, limbs and trees down,” said Jillian ...
Mariachi and Tejano bands, folk dancers and plenty of authentic Mexican food will return to the parking lot of St. John Catholic School for the 39th annual St. John's Mexican Fiesta this weekend. “It’s a party in our backyard, and we invite all the neighbors over,” said Frank Lemus Jr., the chairman of the fiesta committee. There's no charge to get into the fiesta, scheduled from 6 to 11:30 p.m. Friday ...
Local amateur radio operators will be setting up temporary transmitting stations just outside of Lawrence over the weekend for an annual event geared toward using radios in times of disaster. For 24 hours, between 1 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday, the Douglas County Amateur Radio Club's operators, or "hams," will have their radios set up at Wells Overlook Park, located 3/4 of a mile east of U.S. Highway 59 on ...
Rainfall totals for June are not adding up to be as wet as May was in Lawrence, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. May was the fifth wettest month on record, with 10.13 inches of rain recorded at the University of Kansas weather observing station. The monthly average for the month is 5.19 inches, said meteorologist Sarah Teefey. “It was 4.94 inches above the average, which is pretty ...
The owner of the Queen Anne cottage at 1042 Rhode Island St. admits that sometimes the house has been tough to love. Anne Underwood’s 1893 house gets a lot of compliments, but it in turn requires a lot of nurturing from her and her partner, Rodney Troth. On a recent morning, the doors of the dining room and kitchen were opened to the original back porch. “We eat every meal out here,” said Underwood, ...