Nature lovers of all ages can help researchers keep tabs on butterflies this weekend at Monarch Watch's annual fall tagging event. The local butterfly conservation group and the Jayhawk Audubon Society are hosting the event from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Baker Wetlands Discovery Center, 1365 North 1250 Road. Morgan Glade, outreach director for the center, said visitors will be given instructions on how to ...
It may not be Paris, New York or Milan, but models in Lawrence will be strutting down the catwalk, wearing the latest fall designs created by Catherine Bell and her students in celebration of Fashion Month. The "Color of Fashion,” a fashion show from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at Springhill Suites Marriott, 1 Riverfront Plaza, will include both original designs and sewing projects from young students enrolled in ...
The Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission has announced five 2019 Phoenix Award recipients who are being recognized for their outstanding artistic achievement in the community. Since the inception of the Phoenix Awards in 1996, not including this year, 157 local artists have been recognized for their work as sculptors, photographers, dancers, musicians, vocalists, educators, writers and literary supporters, ...
The postcards have been mailed, and billboards and other forms of advertising have helped spread the word that in a couple of weeks Westar Energy will be a thing of the past. Come Oct. 1, Evergy will be the new name — the result of the merger in June 2018 of Westar Energy, based in Topeka, and Kansas City Power & Light’s parent company, Great Plains Energy, which became the wholly-owned subsidiaries of ...
Staff members at the Senior Resource Center are calling the move back to 745 Vermont St. a homecoming. After three years away, they have finally returned to the downtown building where they had been housed for 40 years. The renovated building at the corner of Eight and Vermont streets was originally built in 1950 as the city’s public safety headquarters, with the police station on the east side of the ...
Three musicians walked into the Lawrence Public Library Thursday for a recording session in the sound studio. Only Dan Stecklein would be recording on a tenor saxophone. Trumpeters Terry Moore and Chris Cruz had previously recorded their parts, but they were on hand to help Stecklein with the arrangement. Back in the late 1960s, the men had performed in bands with names like Spiders and the Crabs, The Soul ...