City leaders will soon discuss whether to eventually end a program created at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic that has allowed restaurants to expand their outdoor dining into parking stalls or to consider making the program permanent.
In June 2020, the city created a temporary right-of-way or “parklet” program that has allowed downtown businesses to repurpose sidewalks and parking stalls directly ...
After recently dropping to as few as four frontline staffers, the Lawrence Community Shelter is in the process of adding employees and will be able to reopen during daytime hours this coming week, the shelter board's leader said.
Additionally, the board has named the shelter’s finance and operations director as the new acting leader while an outside investigator looks into allegations against the current ...
Beginning Tuesday, the BNSF Railway will begin maintenance on several railroad crossings in Lawrence, causing them to close temporarily.
The city’s Municipal Services and Operations spokesman, Josh Carson, said BNSF planned to start maintenance beginning with the 15th Street and 11th Street crossings on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The railway will close the South Powerhouse Road and Indiana Street crossings on ...
The City Government Study Task Force has finalized its recommendation that the city consider a system with a directly elected mayor and a six-member commission elected by districts.
As part of its meeting Thursday evening, the task force voted 10-0, with Dustin Stumblingbear absent, to finalize its recommendation regarding changes to the city’s form of government. Task force chair John Nalbandian closed the ...
Human Relations Commission Chair and family health policy specialist Amber Sellers has filed for election to the Lawrence City Commission.
Sellers, who previously lived in Lawrence for about 10 years before relocating for work, returned to Lawrence in 2019. She said that when she first visited Lawrence she knew she wanted to someday make it her permanent home, and she thinks her skills and passion could be a ...
The Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department is tentatively planning to open the outdoor pool on June 14.
After not being able to open the public pool last summer because of the coronavirus pandemic, the city previously announced it would open the pool this summer, but due to a shortage of lifeguards it would not be ready to open at its traditional time on Memorial Day weekend. At the time, the city needed to ...
