Those in search of the highest concentration of doorsteps ready for trick-or-treaters may want to head to downtown Lawrence. Downtown’s annual Halloween trick-or-treating event will take place Wednesday evening. Downtown Lawrence Inc. Executive Director Sally Zogry said that almost every business along Massachusetts Street typically hands out candy for the event, amounting to more than 100 participating ...
The city of Lawrence now has a website for residents to report traffic safety concerns and to potentially get improvements made to roadways and increase traffic enforcement by police. Assistant City Manager Diane Stoddard announced the creation of the website at the City Commission’s most recent meeting. Stoddard said the website allows residents to provide information about any dangerous driving behavior in ...
It cost the City of Lawrence more than $75,000 to prepare for and oversee downtown crowds for the appearance of the University of Kansas men’s basketball team in the Final Four. Though the team did not make it to the championship game, Lawrence officials say the city would have been ready to manage the crowds and the ensuing celebration. “It was all in all successful, and had they won, it seems like we ...
The Lawrence Arts Center has hired a facilitator to oversee the long-running project to add art to East Ninth Street, and after years of uncertainty, a final date has been set for its completion. The Arts Center announced this week that Lawrence resident Mandy Enfield has been named the project’s facilitator. Enfield’s contract begins this month and will end with the completion of the project in June 2020, ...
The discovery of an old limestone storm sewer line as part of the reconstruction of East Ninth Street will add extra costs and time to the project. In July, the city began the project to reconstruct the road, storm sewer lines and sidewalks on a five-block segment of East Ninth Street between New Hampshire and Pennsylvania streets. Sidewalks will also be replaced along East Ninth Street between Pennsylvania ...
A buyer signs up to 150 pages of documents when closing on a home, and among the multitude of notices can be an agreement to pay significant sums to the city. After a contentious debate about the $5.3 million Queens Road benefit districts, city leaders have questions about whether such agreements can be more forthright in the future. The recently created Queens Road benefit districts will add thousands to the ...