A massive migration of monarchs is in the midst. Monarch butterflies, that is. Chip Taylor, founder and director of Monarch Watch, said one of the largest migrations in several years of monarch butterflies from the north to the south is underway. He said thousands upon thousands of monarchs are currently being monitored for the migration. “This is a big migration,” he said. “This is the biggest ...
A new location in downtown Lawrence will allow a local church to offer more services and open a public cafe, its pastor says. The Greenhouse Culture, a nondenominational church currently located in the former Masonic Temple at 1001 Massachusetts St., plans to move across the street to the former Buffalo Wild Wings location at 1012 Massachusetts St. Jared Scholz, lead pastor of the church, said The Greenhouse ...
The United Way of Douglas County will again aim to raise $1.5 million in its annual campaign. Linda and Scott Robinson, both longtime Lawrence residents and University of Kansas graduates, will serve as the co-chairs to lead the fundraising efforts for the 2018-19 campaign. Each year, the United Way of Douglas County conducts a campaign to raise funds to improve education, financial stability and health in the ...
September may be the calm before the storm for Sports Pavilion Lawrence. No youth sports tournaments are scheduled at the athletic facility in northwest Lawrence this month, but tournaments will go “full bore” in October, said Lee Ice, youth sports supervisor for parks and recreation. Thirty-six weekends of 2019 — more than half — are scheduled for tournaments at the facility, he said. “There are ...
When a new restaurant in the Eldridge Hotel will open is still up in the air. Although signs in the windows of the historic downtown building at 701 Massachusetts St. show a plan for a restaurant to open in October, an official timeline has not been set. When asked if the restaurant – seemingly named The Eldridge House Club Restaurant – will open soon, hotel general manager Nancy Longhurst declined to ...
Although many Americans may not know it, Haiti and the United States share an important history, said Cécile Accilien, associate professor and director of the Institute of Haitian Studies at the University of Kansas. “Haiti is the first black republic to have a successful slave revolt,” Accilien said. “As a result of that slave revolt, you have the Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the size of the United ...