The annual Holiday Homes Tour will once again give attendees the chance to tour festive homes decorated for the season and to support a local nonprofit. Tickets for the tour, which will include seven homes, are $25, and proceeds benefit Lawrence Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that builds homes and sells them to low-income families or individuals. As in 2019, this year’s tour includes a home ...
The cover of the blue three-ring binder is unadorned, its only marking the word "memories" written on the spine in simple black typeface. It sits on a shelf at the DARE Center most of the time, but that day someone had brought it out, and it was open on the table. When DARE volunteer Araceli Masterson-Algar walked into the building, she was not sure what was drawing people’s attention, but a small group ...
As part of programming for the ongoing "Ghosts of Segregation" exhibit at the Lawrence Arts Center, bestselling author Clint Smith will be in Lawrence to talk about his book “How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America.” Smith is a poet, scholar and a staff writer at The Atlantic, according to his website. “How the Word is Passed” was a No. 1 New York Times Bestseller ...
Santa Claus will return to downtown Lawrence this holiday season and once again find himself in need of rescue by local firefighters. After being canceled last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the annual downtown holiday lighting ceremony and rooftop rescue of Santa will return with its usual carols, firefighters and countdown to turn on the downtown holiday lights. “We’re glad to be able to have a ...
After suspending late fees, collections and utility shut-offs during the pandemic, the City of Lawrence will soon start trying to collect on the more than $1.9 million that Lawrence residents owe in back utility bills. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the city stopped charging late fees, disconnecting service for nonpayment and sending delinquent accounts to collection agencies in March 2020. As part of ...
Douglas County leaders have voted to move forward with a new more holistic model for handling public defense for people who are accused of crimes and cannot afford attorneys. As part of its meeting Wednesday, the Douglas County Commission voted unanimously to award a contract for indigent defense services for misdemeanors to Kansas Holistic Defenders for 2022. Commissioners agreed that the system needed to ...