This week, Lawrence leaders could sign off on a nearly $3 million agreement covering construction documents and administration costs for the first phase of the city’s multimillion dollar field operations campus project.
At Tuesday’s Lawrence City Commission meeting, commissioners will consider authorizing City Manager Craig Owens to execute a $2,989,166 supplement to the city’s engineering agreement with ...
At the Drop In and Rest Center for the homeless, clients currently have just 800 square feet of space available to do their laundry, take showers and access other needed resources, all within limited hours of operation on weekday afternoons.
The new leader at the agency commonly known as DARE — the rest and resource center at 944 Kentucky St. — is looking to change that. Work is underway that could result ...
For the leader of the Ballard Center, the noise of kids playing in one of the North Lawrence nonprofit’s two outdoor playgrounds was a fitting backdrop to a groundbreaking ceremony for a new building addition on Thursday.
The adults, meanwhile, were squeezed into the smaller of the two playground spaces. Ballard CEO Kyle Roggenkamp called that a reflection of the nonprofit’s mission since 1964 — that ...
About half of the 50 Pallet shelters at the Lawrence Community Shelter's village for people experiencing homelessness now have residents, and the shelter's leader is optimistic about how it's been going so far.
At Thursday’s LCS Board of Directors meeting, Executive Director James Chiselom told the group that there are currently 24 people living at The Village, the community of 64-square-foot cabins at 256 N. ...
By this time a month from now, LMH Health may have completed the hiring process for its next top financial official.
At Wednesday’s LMH Health Board of Trustees meeting, LMH President and CEO Russ Johnson told the group that he expects a new CFO will be in place by the board’s April meeting. Johnson briefly mentioned his expectation for the impending hire while discussing the hospital’s financial ...
Douglas County leaders on Wednesday had a number of questions for the team behind a commercial-scale solar energy project proposed for 1,105 acres just north of Lawrence.
During a work session ahead of Wednesday’s Douglas County Commission meeting, commissioners heard presentations from planning staff and Kansas City energy firm Savion about the Kansas Sky Energy Center project, which is looking to become the ...
