Horse-drawn carriage rides provided holiday cheer for Lawrence residents and a fundraising boost for the local homeless shelter.
Several local businesses, including McGrew Real Estate and the Eldridge Hotel, partnered to offer the carriage rides in downtown Lawrence to benefit the Lawrence Community Shelter. The homeless shelter has been struggling financially, and last year it had to reduce its capacity. ...
An anonymous $10,000 matching donation has helped the Lawrence Public Library surpass the $20,000 goal it had set for its annual fundraising campaign.
Kathleen Morgan, director of development and community partnerships at the library, said the campaign raised a total of $27,315 — $10,000 from the matching donation and $17,315 from other people in the community. The deadline to contribute to the campaign was ...
With its gleaming copper-plated addition and the bright red garage doors, the renovated Fire Station No. 1 stands out.
The $7.14 million renovation project is nearing completion, with only a few final items, and Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical personnel moved back into the station several weeks ago. In addition to preserving the building’s midcentury modern architecture, the renovation added an office ...
A temporary overnight shelter for the homeless is seeking volunteers and donations to help it keep running in downtown Lawrence through the winter.
The Lawrence Winter Shelter opened in the First United Methodist Church, 946 Vermont St., on Dec. 15 to help address a shortage of emergency shelter for the homeless. The winter shelter runs entirely on volunteer work and donations, and it is in need of volunteers ...
A contemporary ballet, a plastic waste sculpture and a music album are some of the works that young artists will contribute to the East Ninth Street art project.
The East Ninth Project put out a call for youth art projects this fall and received five applications, according to project facilitator Mandy Enfield. Each project — done by a middle or high school student — will receive a $1,000 grant to complete ...
Connie Hildebrandt has long known she was Chippewa, but it wasn’t until 2005, when her hometown newspaper published a small announcement about a meeting of Munsee descendants, that her mother mentioned to her that she was also part Munsee.
The Munsee tribe in Kansas once had a reservation outside Leavenworth but has not been federally recognized as a tribe in the U.S. since 1900. Hildebrandt, who lives in ...
