Completely by chance, local videographer Marc Havener released a short film — a celebration of Lawrence’s resilience and interconnectedness throughout the pandemic — on the city’s birthday. After the film was released Friday morning, a commenter pointed out the serendipity. “How perfect,” Havener told the Journal-World that afternoon. “It just shows that sometimes you can’t just plan stuff. ...
The health department will start conducting checks on local bars, restaurants and entertainment venues to ensure they are following public health orders, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health announced Friday. A Sept. 4 health order requires that all establishments with a liquor license must stop serving alcohol after 9 p.m. and close their premises no later than 10 p.m. This week, Lawrence-Douglas County ...
Theatre Lawrence’s upcoming performance will be an outdoor, two-man show complete with social distancing. And while the show’s director says the elements of nature will pose the greatest challenges to the performance, it will also complement the play, which takes place largely outdoors, on baseball fields. The squawks of birds, the sounds of cars passing by — “all those things, they would have been ...
Updated story - Sept. 16 — City leaders express interest in creating ordinance that would make disregarding health orders a municipal offense There’s seemingly no mechanism in place for quick enforcement of violations of local health orders, according to information provided to the Journal-World by one local law enforcement agency. That means house parties such as those documented over the weekend in ...
Updated at 6:57 p.m. Monday Photos and videos of crowded house parties in Lawrence garnered attention this weekend, including from national media, as they showed large gatherings of people not wearing masks. But local law enforcement and public health leaders struggled to explain on Monday why no one was able to shut the parties down on Saturday night, with multiple agencies providing conflicting information ...
After 20 years at its former location, the Lawrence Surgery Center will have a new home within LMH West, and with it some new high-tech equipment. Scott Thellman, a plastic surgeon with Lawrence Plastic Surgery, helped establish the Lawrence Surgery Center, and has also had a hand in discussions about the new facility. “A few years back we recognized we were going to be adding additional procedures and ...