U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, the first Native American to hold the title, will soon take part in community events for Haskell Indian Nations University and the wider public. Harjo, 70, a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, has won wide acclaim for her writing and other work and is serving her third term as poet laureate. Harjo will be part of a Lawrence-based virtual event on Wednesday presented by ...
With the goal of causing the least harm to students, Lawrence school board members want district staff to create a list that prioritizes potential budget cuts with the least impact on students. The school board discussed options for addressing the district’s multimillion-dollar budget shortfall as part of a special meeting Monday. Along with the prioritized list, board members agreed they would like the ...
The Lawrence Community Shelter has requested more than $2 million in federal pandemic aid to expand its capacity and support other functions at the homeless shelter. The shelter submitted a letter of interest to Douglas County for American Rescue Plan Act funding for $2.165 million to support five functions at the shelter. Specifically, the shelter requested funding to support expansion of its emergency ...
The City of Lawrence is looking for input from residents on the design of the city’s new multimillion-dollar bus station. Lawrence Transit released renderings of initial designs, a site plan and a floor plan for the “multimodal transit transfer facility” that the city will soon be constructing at the southeast corner of Bob Billings Parkway and Crestline Drive. The bus station will be the main bus ...
Rotary club members and college football players may seem like an unlikely duo, but this week the two groups made a perfect team. On Tuesday, some members of the Jayhawk Breakfast Rotary Club were out at the Baker Wetlands working on an ongoing project to add a new wheelchair-accessible boardwalk to the wetlands, when five players from the Baker University football team showed up. The Rotary Club, which has ...
The Lawrence school district is continuing to explore the option of converting New York Elementary School into a public Montessori school, and is hoping that pandemic relief aid could assist in the effort. The district submitted a letter of interest to Douglas County for American Rescue Plan Act funding to help train teachers in the Montessori method. The request was one of four letters of interest the ...