The Lawrence Community Shelter has successfully raised $75,000 this month, which has allowed the shelter for the time being to increase its diminished overnight capacity by about 25 people.
The fundraising success was highlighted Saturday afternoon at a community conversation on homelessness that was hosted at the Lawrence Public Library. Renee Kuhl, executive director of the Lawrence Community Shelter, told ...
The new director of the Baldwin City Library hopes she can build stronger bridges with other institutions in the community — including her former employer, the Lumberyard Arts Center.
Wendy Conover started as library director last month. She replaces Cheryl Sylvester, who left the Baldwin City position to become director of the Oskaloosa Public Library.
Conover is no stranger to the Baldwin City Library. She ...
Antique military vehicles and veterans in uniform made their way down Massachusetts Street Saturday for Lawrence's Veterans Day Parade — a fitting tribute, spectators said, to those who answered their country’s call to service.
After opening ceremonies at the intersection of Seventh and Massachusetts streets, more than 50 entries traveled south along the parade route to South Park. Hundreds of spectators ...
Baldwin City voters ousted the only incumbent on the ballot Tuesday in electing three first-time candidates to the City Council, while two incumbent Eudora city commissioners easily won reelection.
Winning four-year seats to the Baldwin City Council were Cory Venable with 445 votes, Julie Constantinescu with 412 votes and Scott Lauridsen with 398. All three easily outdistanced the rest of the field of Sean ...
The local fall harvest got into full swing the past 10 days with an extended period of dry weather.
Steve Wilson, owner of Baldwin Feed Company, said local farmers hauling to his elevator have in the last week mostly switched from harvesting corn to soybeans. He estimated that as of Friday, more than half of the soybean crop of southern Douglas County and northern Franklin County remains in the field.
Wilson ...
The Lawrence Police Department is looking for a suspect in connection with two armed robberies reported late Friday at southern Lawrence apartment complexes.
Sgt. Amy Rhoads, public affairs officer, wrote in an email that police responded at about 11 p.m. Friday to a reported armed robbery in the parking lot of an apartment complex in the 2500 block of West 31st Street. The reporting party told police he was ...
