Javier Bailon Estefania always led with a smile.
Whether he was your friend or your waiter, he was ready with a grin or a laugh, and that’s something those who knew him say they will remember.
Bailon, 43, died Sept. 4, after being hospitalized with COVID-19 for almost four weeks, according to his family. He is one of the 97 people in Douglas County who have died as a result of the virus since the pandemic ...
Representing the final step in a long process, City of Lawrence leaders will soon consider approving regulations that prohibit new neighborhoods in rural areas near the city’s boundaries unless that land is ready to be added to the city.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider an amendment to subdivision regulations for Lawrence and the unincorporated areas of Douglas ...
A beloved University of Kansas professor who died at the end of last year from COVID-19 is among the hundreds of thousands of people remembered in an art exhibition in Washington, D.C.
“In America: Remember,” by Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg, blankets the National Mall with small white flags to honor each person who has died in the United States from COVID-19, according to the exhibition website. The exhibit ...
Kids growing up in Lawrence are almost sure to learn in school about the free-staters and Quantrill’s Raid, but Lourdes Kalusha-Aguirre is hoping to add another facet of local history to the agenda: the Mexican American community of La Yarda that existed for more than 30 years in East Lawrence.
Kalusha-Aguirre and her fellow local filmmaker Marlo Angell have created a 15-minute documentary, “Searching for ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached settlement agreements with Eagle 1968 LC and Kings Construction Co. Inc. to resolve alleged violations of the federal Clean Water Act at the Jayhawk Club golf course.
As part of the settlement, the companies agreed to pay close to $400,000 in penalties and take steps to restore damage to streams and resolve other environmental harm that was done to the ...
Citing the need for smarter growth, county leaders have voted to approve regulations that prohibit new neighborhoods in rural areas near the City of Lawrence unless that land is ready to be added to the city.
As part of its meeting Wednesday, the Douglas County Commission voted unanimously to approve an amendment to subdivision regulations for Lawrence and the unincorporated areas of Douglas County. In ...
