A Lawrence resident is one of six Chinese artists whose work is currently on display at the Royal Palace of Milan in Italy. Hong Zhang, who moved to America in 1996 and has been in Lawrence since 2004, created a piece called “Fall” for the exhibition at the Palazzo Reale Milano. It is displayed in what was previously a prince’s bedroom and spans from the top of the room out toward the four corners. While ...
Allie Montgomery is a survivor. The 28-year-old Lawrence resident was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2016, at the age of 24. She had a grade three anaplastic ependymoma — a tumor on her brain, and one that was dividing rapidly. Since then, Montgomery’s journey has been a series of ups and downs held steady by her relentless spirit and strong faith. After undergoing surgery to get the first tumor removed, ...
The United Way of Douglas County has created a new Racial Equity Community Fund to support initiatives working to advance racial equity in health, education, income, housing, food and safety. In a press release about the new fund, the United Way wrote that Douglas County is failing to provide equitable opportunities for Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC), and that disparities between races are a result ...
Three more Douglas County residents have died from COVID-19, according to the health department's Wednesday update about the virus. Previously, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health announced that ten people — three residents between the ages of 65 and 74, one resident between the ages of 75 and 84 and six residents age 85 or older — had died from COVID-19 or with the virus as a contributing factor in their ...
One of the hardest parts of Bob Brandt’s 53-year career as a barber, he said, is leaving it. Wednesday is Brandt’s last day as owner of The Malls Barber Shop, a fixture of the Lawrence community since 1959. Brandt has been the owner of the shop, located at 711 W. 23rd Street, for 38 years. When asked how he originally got into the hair business, Brandt said it just looked like it would be a fun thing to ...
A reporter who spent decades investigating unsolved murders from the civil rights era will give a virtual talk Tuesday through the Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas. Jerry Mitchell, an investigative reporter for the Clarion-Ledger newspaper in Jackson, Miss., will discuss his new book, "Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era." In his ...