Nearly four years after city leaders decided on funding for the project, the City of Lawrence is set to begin construction on Queens Road. Queens Road was previously a rural road, and the city will begin construction on Monday to improve the road to meet city street standards, according to a city news release. The city anticipates the project will be complete in September 2023, depending on weather and other ...
The committee tasked with coming up with budget recommendations for the Lawrence school district received some preliminary information about building conditions that will inform recommendations about potential school closures. The Futures Planning Committee met for the fourth time Wednesday evening at district offices and received some aggregated cost estimates — totaling about $30 million — for ...
Updated at 9:05 a.m. Wednesday City leaders have approved waiving a fee that the city typically charges businesses to use public right-of-way for a company that will be building a fiber internet network for the Lawrence school district. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted 5-0 to authorize a memorandum of understanding with the Kansas-based fiber internet provider WANRack to ...
A community Día de los Muertos event on Wednesday will pay tribute to deceased loved ones and include a special installation for those who died of COVID-19. The community group Somos Lawrence is organizing the event in collaboration with The Percolator Artist Collective. As part of the event, altars honoring people's deceased loved ones will be displayed throughout the Common Ground garden at John Taylor ...
With only a month until it is scheduled to open its emergency cold-weather shelter, the City of Lawrence needs to find several dozen additional volunteers if the shelter is to open as planned. This is the second year the city plans to operate the Winter Emergency Shelter in the Community Building, 115 W. 11th St., in downtown Lawrence. To provide more consistency with volunteer shift coverage this winter, the ...
City leaders will soon consider waiving a fee that the city typically charges businesses to use public right-of-way for a company that will be building a fiber internet network for the Lawrence school district. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider authorizing a memorandum of understanding with the Delaware-based fiber internet provider WANRack to waive the city’s ...