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- June 4 — Lawrence City Commission reviews potential changes to sidewalk policy; residents ask city to pay for repairs
This spring, 243 homeowners got a letter from the city telling them to fix their sidewalks or else have them condemned and fixed by the city at their expense.
On the receiving end of one of those letters was Sarah Farthing, who since then has joined with other residents in ...
City of Lawrence and firefighter union representatives disagree on how much of a wage increase is needed to keep firefighter pay competitive, and discussion about raises and other compensation issues will continue as contract negotiations proceed.
The union’s current contract covers firefighters, fire engineers and fire lieutenants in the Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical Department, and it expires at the ...
Motorists in Lawrence should be prepared to slow down as road crews work on millions of dollars worth of projects throughout the spring and summer.
The city has several ongoing road projects and others that will begin in coming weeks. Below is a summary of the major summer roadwork in Lawrence, including construction schedules provided by City Engineer Dave Cronin.
Projects beginning soon:
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The City of Lawrence is asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a longtime pilot that claims the city hasn’t properly kept up some airport infrastructure.
Great Planes Inc., which operates an airplane hangar and offices at the airport on space leased from the city, filed the lawsuit this spring in Douglas County District Court. The lawsuit alleges that disrepair of the runway damaged one of the ...
ST. LOUIS — As incoming city manager Craig Owens gave a driving tour of Clayton, Mo., he was sure also to drive outside Clayton’s bounds to a place starkly different from the city he has managed since 2008.
Just outside the affluence of Clayton, an invisible line is crossed and the landscape changes: the homes are still brick but they are much smaller, closer together, some in need of repair. Here, the ...
CLAYTON, MO. — The world incoming city manager Craig Owens departs is a very different one from what awaits him in Lawrence.
The approximately 2.5-square-mile city of Clayton, Mo., where Owens has been the city manager since 2008, has been booming by many accounts. The city has about 16,000 residents and brings twice that number of people into the city for work. On a recent weekday morning, people with ...
