Kansas state parks, including area parks such as Clinton and Perry, saw a significant increase in visits in April, especially with new users, and park leaders say they expect numbers to remain high in the coming months if weather is favorable.
This is good news for Kansas’ state parks, which lost about $1.2 million in user fees as a result of summer flooding last year.
State Parks Director Linda Lanterman ...
Want to earn the title of “Best Lawrence Film?” Local actor and playwright Will Averill has established a one-time only “24-Hour Stay-At-Home Shorts Film Festival.”
It’s Averill’s first film festival, and he’s hoping it will give community members the opportunity to be creative while stuck at home.
“I thought it would be a lot of fun for families to get together and work on a short film,” ...
Douglas County is currently seeing a plateau in COVID-19 cases, not a peak, according to an infectious disease doctor on the team that's leading LMH Health's pandemic response.
“Currently, it’s estimated that our peak is actually a plateau, and we are about halfway through our plateau week,” Dr. Christopher Penn said Wednesday afternoon during a Zoom call that the LMH Health Incident Command team ...
Will Dietz and Melanie Freeman-Dietz found their wedding venue the day they said “I do.” Maya León and Jonathan Robbins moved the date of their wedding twice — the second time, to later that same day.
These last-minute changes weren’t due to poor organization. The two Lawrence couples had been planning their weddings for months. But when the time came for them to get hitched the third weekend in ...
Two severe thunderstorms rolled through Douglas County Monday morning with high winds and about an inch of rain, causing damage to some structures and power lines.
A porch was torn off a home in Southwest Douglas County, and the side of Kingston Printing & Design in Eudora was blown off.
Jillian Rodrigue, deputy director for Douglas County Emergency Management, said that as of 3:20 p.m. she did not ...
Stan Herd’s latest crop art project is a thank-you note for front-line workers battling COVID-19. It’s a pot filled with flowers, with “thank you” written on it.
Herd said the idea for the project came from his family and friends, who all agreed that a thank-you note was a positive message that could be appreciated worldwide during the current crisis.
“Everybody is just coming to the understanding ...
