In the wake of multiple resignations on the city’s Community Police Review Board, the first meeting of a work group that is supposed to be reconsidering how the city handles complaints against police has been further delayed.
The 12-member work group consists of four police representatives, three representatives of the Community Police Review Board, and five community members. The Lawrence City Commission ...
Renovation has begun at the future home of the Community Children’s Center in Lawrence, which plans to offer much-needed daytime, overnight and weekend child care for infants and toddlers.
The project to renovate the building for the center, which will be located at 346 Maine St., began this past week with demolition work, according to Community Children's Center Executive Director Kim Polson. The child care ...
Four Lawrence elementary schools have received $2,000 grants to promote healthy habits, funds that will help expand three school gardens and add a sensory activity room to another school.
The four Lawrence schools to receive the grants — Cordley, Woodlawn, Langston Hughes and Sunflower — are among 109 schools across the state to receive a Healthy Habits for Life grant from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of ...
Three Lawrence school board members expressed interest earlier this week in the possibility of the district providing new educational programs, such as an arts-based middle school, in the face of possible school closures. District administrators said such possibilities are being considered, but they are in the early stages of evaluating potential changes.
During the board commentary portion of the Lawrence ...
Concerns expressed by the public in a meeting about the city’s update of its development code included both the city’s shortage of affordable housing and the difficulty in building housing at all. Consultants working on the code update said both are issues they want the update to address.
Consultants with Clarion Associates recently completed a four-month review of the city’s existing development code, ...
Consultants working to update the development code that determines where and how Lawrence grows have drafted a list of 80 recommended changes and are seeking public input on the proposal.
A community meeting will take place on Thursday to gather feedback on the recommended changes, which consultants with Clarion Associates developed following a four-month assessment of the code. The code assessment outlines ...
