City leaders have indicated they are interested in requiring that at least some staff at bars and other businesses that serve alcohol be trained to recognize and intervene in sexual harassment and assault. As part of its meeting last week, the Lawrence City Commission asked city staff to draft an ordinance that would make sexual assault intervention training mandatory for certain drinking establishment ...
Whether the multimillion-dollar reconstruction of Queens Road will be postponed so a lawsuit against the city can go forward is now in the hands of a judge. At a hearing in Douglas County District Court on Monday, both sides laid out their case as to whether the controversial taxing districts, which go toward funding the $5.3 million road project, should be delayed so the lawsuit can be heard. In January, ...
Plans call for 10 cottages to be built on a site in northern Lawrence, but before a hammer is swung or a wall raised, the Delaware Tribe that once inhabited the area has asked that surveyors look below the ground. Delaware Tribe historians say there could be archaeological and human remains on the site, and they have requested that an archaeological field survey that includes subsurface testing be conducted ...
After a mother and her child were initially told they could not attend a city event for dads and daughters, a local organization has created a dance party open to everyone. Melissa Zinn said that her husband and child Mimi had attended Lawrence Parks and Recreation’s Daddy-Daughter Date Night event, which includes dinner and dancing, for the past few years. Melissa’s husband, Andrew Zinn, died in December, ...
City leaders have given a key approval to an apartment, retail and hotel project that would transform a portion of the riverfront near downtown Lawrence. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted 4-1, with Commissioner Leslie Soden opposing, to approve the preliminary development plan for the 16-acre North Lawrence Riverfront Development. The multiphase project will ultimately add ...
Lawrence city leaders voted unanimously in favor of changes to city code that would allow feral cat colonies. The Lawrence Humane Society proposed changes to the city’s animal control ordinance that would allow for a “trap-neuter-release,” or TNR, program under which cats would be caught, neutered, vaccinated, and then returned to where they were collected and allowed to roam free. As part of its meeting ...