When Trevor Arellano was a junior at Lawrence High School, he stumbled onto a career path he was excited to explore during his college years and possibly turn into his profession afterward.
Little did he know that the profession — public health officer fighting the spread of infectious diseases — would become the center of the global conscience a year later as the coronavirus pandemic brought much of the ...
Each year, the Journal-World reaches out to the Academic All-Stars from 10 years ago to see what they’ve been up to since high school. Here’s what the members of the 2010 class told us via email:
Each year, the Journal-World reaches out to the Academic All-Stars from 10 years ago to see what they’ve been up to since high school. Here’s what the members of the 2010 class told us via email:
Lauren ...
For students at St. John Catholic School, despite a global pandemic, the show must go on.
Even if it’s through an online conference call using the actors’ homes as scene backdrops, rather than using a proper stage.
When state and local agencies shut down schools and canceled many events to slow the spread of COVID-19, St. John’s middle school theater group saw the planned live performance of their show ...
The Douglas County Commission has abandoned its plan to demolish an unoccupied county building near downtown Lawrence, but commissioners were not happy about how those plans came to be quashed.
During their meeting Wednesday, the commissioners retracted the county’s application to the City of Lawrence for a certificate of appropriateness to demolish the building located at 1242 Massachusetts St. They chose to ...
Douglas County may soon help fund the use of hotels to quarantine homeless individuals during the coronavirus pandemic.
The County Commission on Wednesday will consider approving its half of a joint city-county funding plan that would pay up to $80,000 over the next four months for the program. Porter Arneill, a spokesman for the city of Lawrence, said the City Commission authorized the city's funding portion ...
A new school day schedule that provides class periods where students decide how and what they are learning could be on the horizon for Free State High School.
Michelle Salmans, a Free State fine arts teacher, told the Lawrence school board on Monday that a new schedule format would help facilitate many different ideas a team of teachers came up with to redesign education at the school.
“Most of the things we ...
