On the wall of Mark Richter’s intensive care room, where he lay sedated as he fought COVID-19, hung two pieces of paper. On one was a bulleted list of facts about his life — that he was a professor, that he had four kids, that he enjoyed a competitive match of croquet — and on the other were photos of him and his family. What the posters could not capture was his baritone voice and its Australian accent, ...
After a proposed contract to complete additional repairs on the Bowersock Dam came in higher than anticipated, city leaders will have to decide whether to go ahead with the project as planned or try to reduce some of the estimated $1.9 million price tag. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will receive an update on contract negotiations with J.F. Brennan Company Inc. and Barr ...
Lawrence police officers will soon begin enforcing the city’s recently lowered speed limits on neighborhood streets. Starting Monday, police will begin pulling over drivers who exceed the new 25 mph speed limit as part of a $40,000, three-month traffic enforcement campaign. Senior Project Engineer Dustin Smith said in an email to the Journal-World that the first six weeks of the campaign would focus on ...
People whose identities have been used to fraudulently collect unemployment benefits from the Kansas Department of Labor are now facing another problem: making sure they don't have to pay taxes on thousands of dollars that they never received. Tonganoxie resident Nancy Landi is one of the many people — state officials don’t yet know exactly how many — whose identity was used to file a fraudulent ...
Lawrence city leaders have approved spending another $208,000 to further study contamination levels at the former Farmland Industries fertilizer plant, but they emphasized that the most difficult decisions about the site's cleanup were still ahead. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously to authorize a second addition to its contract with GHD Services Inc., which the city ...
As part of Lawrence’s yearslong effort to clean up nitrogen spills at the former Farmland Industries fertilizer plant, city leaders will soon discuss spending another $208,000 to further analyze the spread of the contaminants and develop a new remediation plan for the site. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider authorizing a second addition to its contract with GHD ...