Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health will conduct free, asymptomatic mass COVID-19 testing events from Dec. 12 to Dec. 20 in Lawrence, Eudora, Baldwin City and Lecompton.
This is the second time the health department has offered these opportunities. In November, prior to Thanksgiving, about 1,900 people took tests through the mass testing events, and 1.4% tested positive.
The mass testing is being funded ...
An early 1900s farmhouse on a 10-acre property is the perfect combination for a Eudora couple with an eye for decorating and a love of nature.
Jamie and Adam Jones had been looking to move to a more rural part of Douglas County, and in October 2019 they settled into their home at 2158 North 900 Road, about six miles south of downtown Eudora.
Jamie, a Lawrence native, had wanted to live in the country since ...
Ashley Davis and her band spent five months this spring and summer collaborating on an album — but they all worked on it from their own homes.
“It was kind of like a conveyor belt process,” Davis said. One band member would send their part to another, and then the next member would add their part on top.
Davis’ sound studio was a closet in her Lawrence home, where the hanging clothing served to soak ...
Kristine Burrichter and her friends have been giving back to the organization that saved Burrichter’s daughter’s life through fundraising and running in the St. Jude Memphis Marathon.
Burrichter and her friends had always enjoyed running, but for the past five years the group — which is continuously expanding — has run with a purpose: to help other families receive the same care Burrichter’s ...
One more Douglas County resident has died from COVID-19, according to the health department, making this the fifth COVID-19-related death in the past week. The death announced Wednesday is also the youngest person to have died from COVID-19 in the county to date.
The new death, which brings the total to 27, was a male in the 45-to-54 age range who had been hospitalized in the region at the time of death, ...
Lawrence pianist Paulina Leisring hopes to change some people's minds about classical music with her recent album, which won a Latin Grammy Award last month.
People who think of classical music as boring or inaccessible should give it a chance, Leisring said — especially now, because it can provide a respite from this “dreadful” year.
“This CD, it’s just pure, pure beauty — pure love,” Leisring ...
