Story updated at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday:
The Lawrence school board has selected former school board member Ronald “GR” Gordon-Ross to fill a vacant board seat.
As part of a special meeting on Tuesday, the board picked Gordon-Ross from three remaining candidates following an interview process. The board previously selected four candidates from 13 applications as part of its regular meeting last week, but one has ...
Though a Denver-based hospitality company has bought Lawrence’s The Oread, the tax incentives the City of Lawrence agreed to related to the hotel’s development will remain with Lawrence businessman Thomas Fritzel.
As the Journal-World reported last week, Mission Hill Hospitality announced that it has completed a deal to purchase The Oread, and will change the name of the property to the Oread Hotel, ...
The Lawrence school board will have a special meeting Tuesday to interview four candidates to fill a vacant board seat.
As part of its regular meeting last week, the board selected the four candidates from 13 applications that the board received to fill the seat of former board member Andrew Nussbaum, who resigned less than seven months after being sworn in. As part of the public meeting Tuesday, each ...
About 3,400 children in the Lawrence school district have family incomes low enough to qualify for free meals this school year, about 900 more children than last year.
Applications continue to be processed, but so far, 911 more students qualified for free meals — meaning their families have very low household income — and 540 more students qualified for the free and reduced-price meal program overall, ...
The wheels of change are bringing more electric buses to the streets of Lawrence.
The City of Lawrence has received a federal grant to purchase electric buses for the third straight year, and is preparing to roll out its first all-electric buses on Monday. In an announcement regarding the award, Transit and Parking Manager Adam Weigel said that the Federal Transit Administration continues to recognize the ...
The City of Lawrence is preparing to begin a two-year process to update its land development code, dictating where and how the city grows as well as changes that could affect the look and function of existing neighborhoods and commercial areas.
The city’s land development code, which has not been updated since 2006, covers building density, parking requirements and land uses, or what type of use can occur ...
