Works of art planned as part of the East Ninth Street art project now include a large-scale sculpture, a short film created with the help of neighbors and a community reading room.
After reviewing 27 submissions, a panel of artists selected five additional works for the long-running East Ninth Street art project. Project facilitator Mandy Enfield said the selected proposals were high-quality and met the ...
Discussions between city and firefighter union representatives will include wage increases, overtime pay and longevity bonuses, and both sides are preparing for a "lively debate."
The current contract covers firefighters, fire engineers and fire lieutenants in the Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical Department, and it expires at the end of this year. Representatives for the city and the association of ...
A prime piece of downtown real estate will soon be available, and Lawrence Arts Center leaders are hoping that special tax revenue can help the center purchase the site.
The Arts Center is requesting that city leaders and developers move forward with a 2012 agreement to use a percentage of the revenues from the Tax Increment Financing district at Ninth and New Hampshire streets to help the center purchase the ...
Updated at 11:55 a.m. Monday, April 29
An airplane operator at the Lawrence Municipal Airport is suing the city of Lawrence, claiming that the city hasn't properly kept up some airport infrastructure and that disrepair damaged one of the company’s airplanes.
Great Planes Inc., which operates an airplane hangar and offices at the airport on space leased from the city, recently filed the lawsuit in Douglas ...
Volunteers are needed to help clean up the banks of the Kansas River.
The Friends of the Kaw, The Nature Conservancy, the East Lawrence Neighborhood Association and the City of Lawrence will host a river cleanup day on Saturday. The event will take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Volunteers should meet in the public parking lot at the intersection of Second and Locust streets in North Lawrence.
Friends of the ...
Retired auditor and community volunteer Stuart Boley has filed for reelection to the Lawrence City Commission.
Boley was elected to the commission in 2015 along with fellow newcomers Leslie Soden and Matthew Herbert. Boley, who served as mayor last year, said he’s learned a lot over the past four years and that the commission has made some progress in governance and on other issues in that time.
“And ...
