The Lawrence Police Department is searching for a man who reportedly fired at another person early Sunday morning. According to a statement from Sgt. Amy Rhoads, of the Lawrence Police Department, the victim said the incident occurred at 4:34 a.m. in the vicinity of 10th and Arkansas streets. The reporting party was retrieving items from a vehicle when the suspect approached while brandishing a firearm. The ...
Taylor Ardong was hopeful of taking home a piece of personal and Lawrence history Sunday at the Ernst & Son Hardware auction. “I used to shop here for little stuff,” the lifelong Lawrence resident said. “I remember coming here in elementary school on a field trip. I remember the old cash register.” The Ernst family members decided in May to close the store when they could find neither a buyer nor ...
The Lawrence school board will take steps Monday needed to prepare for the sale of $43.5 million in general obligation bonds later this month. On the board’s agenda is an item authorizing the sale on Sept. 24 of the remaining half of the $87 million in bond debt that voters approved in May 2017. The school board sold the first $43.5 million of that bond issue in September 2017. Hutchinson, Shockey, Erley ...
As he sat at behind a table filled with his animal carvings Saturday in a tent on the Haskell Indian Nations University campus, artist Joseph Begay, of Albuquerque, N.M., said he was part of an annual September migration from the American Southwest to Lawrence. “This is the week New Mexico and Arizona come to Kansas,” he said of the annual Haskell Indian Art Market weekend. “I love the people. I’ve ...
The location, design and operation of the new $5 million teen center reflect a strong partnership between Lawrence school district and the Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence, officials with the district and youth organization say. Colby Wilson, executive director of the Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence, said the basic partnership behind the teen center was forged through discussions between the Boys & Girls ...
After presenting inmate numbers showing that overcrowding is still a problem at the county jail, Douglas County Undersheriff Gary Bunting told the Douglas County Commission he would return in early October to share details about installing modular cell units at the jail. “We believe that might not be the best solution, so we’re asking for a few weeks to flesh out the details,” Bunting said of the modular ...