Updated at 4:58 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 12
The Lawrence school district’s recently completed annual enrollment count shows a dramatic decline of hundreds of students compared with last year's count, and the amount of decline in just one year is what a consultant recently had predicted for an entire five-year period.
The district’s enrollment report is completed on Sept. 20 of each year, and this year’s ...
When it comes to feeding kids in need, Harvesters Community Food Network’s BackSnack program is one of a number of services that Lawrence schools rely on — but this school year, it isn't providing as much support as normal.
The program facilitated by Harvesters, the Kansas City-based regional Feeding America food bank, provides a weekly backpack filled with nutritious, child-friendly food for kids at ...
Like most teenagers, a group of 12 new students attending Lawrence’s high schools have spent the past few weeks going to school sporting events and getting ready for their homecoming dances.
But this is all completely new territory for that group — and so are plenty of other elements of life in an American city. That’s because those students have been visiting Lawrence from their home in Eutin, Germany, ...
Local radio icon Hank Booth, who died in early July, was recognized at the Lawrence City Commission's meeting on Tuesday as "a man whose voice will forever echo in our hearts and whose spirit will forever resonate in our community.”
That's how Booth was described in the proclamation read by Mayor Lisa Larsen, which designated Oct. 10, 2023, as “Hank Booth Day.” Larsen said that Booth's work as a ...
A group of planning leaders came to the Baldwin City library on Monday expecting to give a 30-minute talk about revisions to the county's wind energy regulations. What they didn't expect was that the standing-room-only crowd would talk over and interrupt them, voicing a litany of concerns and sometimes asking whether wind farms should be banned in Douglas County outright.
Dozens of county residents gathered at ...
The Affordable Housing Advisory Board had its first chance on Monday to hear more details from the nine projects that have applied for Affordable Housing Trust Fund dollars in 2024.
There are nine applications vying for next year’s round of funding, and they each gave a short, introductory presentation about their projects to the board at its Monday morning meeting. Those projects range from additional ...
