Lawrence leaders on Tuesday were given an update on a number of efforts related to homelessness, including the opening of the Lawrence Community Shelter’s village of 64-square-foot Pallet cabins and the coinciding closure of homeless camps in North Lawrence.
Those updates were part of a presentation from city staff at Tuesday’s Lawrence City Commission meeting. The meeting fell a day after the first ...
Douglas County leaders on Wednesday will consider granting an extension for a Lawrence private school’s site plan as it works to determine its long-term location.
At Wednesday’s Douglas County Commission meeting, commissioners will consider granting Veritas Christian School a one-year extension for its site plan at 960 East 1296 Road, which is a few miles south of Lawrence. The site plan was originally ...
Lawrence leaders on Tuesday are set to hear updates about a variety of developments related to homelessness, from the opening of the Lawrence Community Shelter’s community of 64-square-foot Pallet cabins and coinciding closure of homeless camps in North Lawrence to a recent increase in police presence in downtown Lawrence.
Here’s a summary of the updates the Lawrence City Commission will expect to hear more ...
Tocopilla, Chile, might be located thousands of miles from Lawrence, but the two cities aren’t exactly worlds apart.
Lawrence is no stranger to finding commonalities with communities located all across the globe, as it already counts three international communities as sister cities — Eutin, Germany; Hiratsuka, Japan; and Iniades, Greece.
There’s now a fourth member on that list, after the Lawrence City ...
A group of Lawrence businesses’ lawsuit against the City of Lawrence, which asks a Douglas County court to close a pair of homeless camps, is scheduled to go to trial at the beginning of 2025.
According to updated Douglas County case filings, the case will go to a jury trial in late January 2025. The first day will be Jan. 20, 2025, and the trial will resume from Jan. 28 to Jan. 31 of that month.
As the ...
Updated at 2:42 p.m. Friday, March 15
BNSF Railway earlier this week posted a notice north of Sandra J. Shaw Community Health Park notifying people camping on nearby railway property to move their belongings by Friday morning, or else railway police would remove and dispose of the items.
The Journal-World located the flyer Thursday afternoon; it is dated March 12 and appears to have been posted at 9:20 a.m. ...
