On Monday, folks in Lawrence — and all over the country — had a chance to watch an event that won’t happen again for another two decades, as a total solar eclipse crossed the U.S. Many of those viewers in Lawrence may well have been congregated near the Lied Center on the University of Kansas campus, where hundreds turned out to an event organized by KU’s Society of Physics Students chapter. That ...
LMH Health's search for a new top financial leader is over, and a longtime Lawrence leader has been hired for the role, the hospital announced in a news release Monday morning. LMH Health has hired former Lawrence City Commissioner Rob Chestnut to fill its CFO role. Chestnut will join the organization May 20. In addition to his time as a city commissioner from 2007 to 2011, Chestnut also spent 12 years ...
Lawrence city commissioners at their Tuesday meeting will consider a revised development plan for an apartment complex on Sixth Street. Specifically, they will consider a revision that would allow for the removal of an access gate on the southern side of the property at 5555 W. Sixth St., the address of Alvadora Apartments. The gate provides access to Stonecreek Drive from the property, and the applicant is ...
"A Place for Everyone." That's the name of the new city and county plan to end chronic homelessness, so you might expect it to be focused on places — affordable and supportive housing for people to live in. And that's certainly a part of it. One of the plan's five "goal areas" calls for more than $218 million in spending on affordable housing over five years. But if you ask the architects of the plan, the ...
A group of local farmers has partnered with earthwork artist Stan Herd to create a work urging the relocation of a utility-scale solar energy project proposed for 1,105 acres just north of Lawrence. The art installation — visible from the north side of Interstate 70 between East 1500 and East 1600 roads, not far from the proposed site of the project in the Midland Junction area about 2.5 miles north of the ...
At an upcoming public meeting, the City of Lawrence is asking community members to weigh in on what they’d like to see from a $6.1 million renovation planned for the city’s Outdoor Aquatic Center. The city announced in a news release Thursday that it’s beginning a “major” renovation project at the Outdoor Aquatic Center, 727 Kentucky St., alongside consultants with various Kansas City-area firms. ...