After plans to construct the city’s first bike boulevard again turned out more expensive than expected, city leaders indicated that they were not comfortable going forward with the project as planned. As part of their meeting Tuesday, Lawrence city commissioners voted unanimously to defer funding decisions about the project until they could get more information about their options to scale down the project. ...
City leaders will soon discuss a new way of prioritizing infrastructure maintenance projects and other capital expenses. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will provide feedback to city staff about new prioritization guidelines for the city’s Capital Improvement Plan. The guidelines are being discussed in preparation for the city manager’s recommended CIP for 2021-2025, which ...
Though state orders prohibit landlords from evicting people who can't pay their rent because of the coronavirus, advocates say there is confusion among both tenants and landlords regarding how the order works. Gov. Laura Kelly issued an initial order on March 17 temporarily prohibiting foreclosures and evictions during the pandemic. She issued another order on March 23, replacing the previous order, that ...
A bike-share company claimed to have reached out to the local Boys & Girls Club in an attempt to donate bicycles before scrapping them, but the club says it has no record of the company, Veo, contacting it. After Lawrence residents expressed anger about an approximately 20-foot-tall pile of bicycles at a local scrap yard this week, Veo representatives told the Journal-World that most of the bicycles were ...
Though the coronavirus pandemic has affected their operations, local social service agencies are still providing food for those in need. Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition Kitchen (LINK) and The Salvation Army of Douglas County have both made changes to how they distribute food. An announcement on LINK’s website states that in light of the guidance from Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, the LINK ...
Story updated at 5:20 p.m. Wednesday Anyone who walked by a local scrap yard this week saw an eye-catching pyramid of dozens of bright red and blue bicycles, some of them with no apparent damage. But the company who owned the bikes defended the pile, saying they couldn't be donated. The bicycles, piled approximately 20 feet high at the 12th & Haskell Recycling Center, 1006 E. 11th St., belonged to the ...