Students at Bishop Seabury Academy this year are getting the full experience of their renovated school building, which includes more space for classrooms and a commons area. The renovation was completed in fall 2020 and involved connecting two buildings on the campus to create a single school building. But the Episcopal middle and high school couldn't fully take advantage of the updated facility last year ...
As the Lawrence school district sees its second full week of class come to a close, it has already been dealing with many students missing school because of the coronavirus pandemic. As of Friday morning, the school district has reported 48 cases among students. The majority of those cases are in elementary school buildings, which serve students who are not eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. But those cases ...
Lawrence police are investigating a shooting in East Lawrence that left one person injured on Wednesday. Lt. David Ernst of the Lawrence Police Department told the Journal-World Thursday that officers spoke to an individual at LMH Health who reported they had been shot around 3 p.m. while near the 400 block of East Seventh Street, which is near the Lawrence Amtrak station in East Lawrence. Additionally, ...
A local mother of a 4-year-old boy recently received a call that every parent would dread: St. John Catholic School’s preschool educators last week urgently demanded that she come pick up her child, who appeared to be ill. When the mother — whom the Journal-World has chosen not to name to protect the privacy of her son — arrived at the school at 1244 Kentucky St., she found him seemingly passed out ...
A man who led police on a manhunt in June allegedly swerved his vehicle at police officers and almost struck pedestrians during the chase through downtown and East Lawrence, according to an affidavit supporting his arrest. The man, Nicholas S. Atwell, 32, also allegedly hid from police in a home in an East Lawrence neighborhood without the homeowner's knowledge. Atwell was charged with aggravated burglary, ...
When Carol Schwarting was a child, her community suffered a smallpox outbreak that led to the death of a 4-year-old child her family knew. In light of the virus’ spread, people needed to quarantine and stay away from others, Schwarting recently told the Journal-World. That meant Schwarting, who is now 92 and a resident at Monterey Village Senior Living in Lawrence, wouldn’t be able to go to the swimming ...