City leaders will soon decide whether to expand the incentives package for a manufacturing plant that plans to bring 140 jobs to Lawrence over the next five years.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider providing an additional free lot at Lawrence VenturePark to Kansas City, Mo.-based U.S. Engineering Metalworks. The company is now planning to build a significantly bigger ...
As more downtown businesses reopen or bolster their online and curbside services, a local directory can help Lawrence residents navigate how to shop or order from their favorite establishments.
Downtown Lawrence Inc. has created a directory of downtown businesses that indicates which businesses are open and in what capacity they are serving customers, such as curbside pickup, carryout or online orders only. ...
Lawrence developer and four-time convicted felon Thomas Fritzel has requested to serve his prison sentences not behind bars but at his multimillion-dollar home.
Fritzel, who was convicted of the felony counts in two federal cases, has requested in both cases to serve his prison sentence in home confinement because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The motions, filed in U.S. District Court, argue in part that prisons ...
Colorful cloth masks are being tied to tree limbs, set out in boxes on sidewalks and left on porches in Ziploc bags. Behind them is a legion of residents putting their sewing skills and the stay-at-home order to good use.
Mayor Jennifer Ananda is one of many Lawrence residents who took up fabric and thread in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Ananda has been leaving masks — disinfected and in individual ...
Local nonprofit Family Promise of Lawrence has received a $50,000 grant to support a new program to divert homeless families from the shelter to other living situations.
Family Promise, which provides shelter and support for homeless families, has locations across the country, and the Lawrence location was one of 10 selected by the national office to pilot the Diversion from Shelter Program.
Dana Ortiz, ...
For those working to quickly house unsheltered homeless people during the coronavirus pandemic, the list of people living outside has actually grown longer despite progress.
Those who work with the homeless say that’s because an inadvertent outcome of the stay-at-home order is that it has allowed them to get a more accurate count of how many people are living outside — and that number is roughly double ...
