Three Lawrence City Commission candidates have broken away from the pack in raising money for their campaigns. Candidates were required this week to turn in receipt and expenditure reports that list contributions to their campaigns so far. Of the six candidates in the race, three candidates have raised several thousand dollars each: newcomer Brad Finkeldei, incumbent Stuart Boley and newcomer Joey Hentzler. ...
Representatives for the City of Lawrence and the local firefighters union will soon begin mediated negotiations in an attempt to resolve disagreements regarding pay increases and other changes to the union’s contract. The first meeting with a mediator from the United States Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service will be Thursday and is scheduled to last all day. Assistant City Manager Casey Toomay said ...
TOPEKA — Jurors have convicted Lawrence developer Thomas Fritzel of illegally disposing of asbestos-containing material while doing remodeling work at Alvamar Country Club in 2016. After deliberating for about two hours Tuesday, the jury found Fritzel guilty on all three counts of which he was charged: knowingly failing to notify environmental agencies prior to removing asbestos material, knowingly failing to ...
TOPEKA — A purchase contract for Lawrence’s Alvamar Country Club, presented in U.S. District Court Monday, states there were no hazardous materials on the property, and it includes a provision that would financially protect Lawrence developer Thomas Fritzel in the case of such an issue. Fritzel is charged with illegally disposing of asbestos-containing material during a 2016 remodeling of the Alvamar ...
TOPEKA — Receipts from the Hamm Landfill outside Lawrence indicate that the day after the state environmental agency told Lawrence developer Thomas Fritzel to cease all work on the Alvamar Country Club construction site and move no debris because of suspected asbestos, a company owned by Fritzel took five truckloads of debris to the landfill. A series of Hamm Landfill scale tickets for R&R Supply ...
TOPEKA — Two witnesses said Thursday that they tried to inform local developer Thomas Fritzel or his business associates that there were hazardous materials at Lawrence’s Alvamar Country Club, but that Fritzel went on with renovations to the club in spite of their warnings. The witnesses, both of whom worked in the construction insdustry, testified at a federal trial in U.S. District Court in Topeka. ...