A Baker University tradition will return Dec. 8 with the Baker Music Department's annual Christmas Candlelight Vespers. For the 89th year, students and faculty from the department will perform a variety of popular and classical pieces. The performances will be at 2 and 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, at Rice Auditorium on the school's Baldwin City campus. Admission is free.
This holiday season will feature plenty of musical performances in Lawrence — from local favorites like the University of Kansas' Holiday Vespers to a live stage show based on a classic Christmas special. Here's a selection of the shows coming up this season: Romero Lubambo concert 7:30 p.m. Dec. 2 and 3, Lied Center, 1600 Stewart Drive Guitarist Romero Lubambo will bring his Brazilian-influenced jazz ...
The annual Festival of Lights Parade will be the highlight of a full day of activities Dec. 7 as Baldwin City greets the holiday season. Baldwin City Chamber of Commerce executive director Jeannette Blackmar said the parade will once again begin at 6 p.m. The parade route will start on Eighth Street along the west side of the Baker University campus and then turn east on High Street. As always, she said, ...
Baldwin City has made a new agreement to purchase water from the City of Lawrence and will soon stop buying raw Clinton Lake water directly from the state. The new contract sets the Baldwin City wholesale purchase price for treated water at $3.81 per 1,000 gallons starting Jan. 1, 2020. That is a 15-cent increase from what Baldwin City currently pays Lawrence for treating the Clinton water that it buys from the ...
The Baldwin City Council has approved the final plat for a development that will add 26 new senior housing units in the community. The final plat for phase 6A of the Firetree subdivision was approved at the council's Nov. 19 meeting. Plans call for the addition of 13 duplex units to a 5.2-acre site north of Ridge Lane and south of North 400 Road. Jeff Hill, representing the developer Baldwin Land Company Inc., ...
Jeannette Blackmar is returning to her old office home at the Lumberyard Arts Center in a new capacity. Blackmar, who has served as Baldwin City Chamber of Commerce director for the past four years, is leaving that position to become executive director of the Lumberyard Arts Center. Blackmar and the Chamber were housed in the Lumberyard before moving two years ago to a separate office across the street at 720 ...