At a downtown-centric forum Thursday evening, the six candidates running for seats on the Lawrence City Commission shared their thoughts on increasing residential density in the area, how to enforce the city’s rule for camping in public spaces and more.
The forum was hosted by Downtown Lawrence Inc., the not-for-profit membership organization that promotes the interests of the downtown business district. All ...
After a search process that's been underway since May, LMH Health has hired its next chief financial officer.
The hospital’s new top financial executive is Mike Rogers, a senior executive with 28 years of experience in the health care field. Rogers most recently served as regional chief financial officer for St. Mary’s Hospital’s Texoma Medical Center in Oklahoma City, a 1,200-bed community hospital ...
Lawrence residents who are willing to make the trip to Kansas City, Kansas, on Friday for a blood drive benefiting LMH Health’s blood supplier will get a free ticket to a soccer match later the same evening in Lawrence.
The Community Blood Center of Greater Kansas City, which provides the vast majority of blood used by more than 60 area hospitals, including LMH Health, is hosting a blood drive in ...
New signs that read “No Overnight Camping Allowed” were installed in North Lawrence between the Kansas River and the river levee last week, and the city’s Parks and Recreation Department says they are a direct response to neighborhood complaints about “disruptive noise and overnight activities” affecting the nearby neighborhood.
The signs can be found just south of the North Lawrence neighborhood in ...
A plan to develop duplexes near the Fall Creek Farms subdivision in west Lawrence is returning to the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission for a second try at approval.
As the Journal-World reported, the original preliminary development plan for Fall Creek Villas — proposed for an 8.4-acre parcel of undeveloped land east of Fall Creek Road and west of North Kasold Drive — was denied by the Lawrence ...
For the leaders of community institutions like LMH Health, Weaver's and the Lawrence chamber of commerce, planning is everything — and when it comes to Lawrence's homelessness crisis, they say City Hall hasn't done enough of it.
They were part of a group of more than a dozen prominent business and community leaders who showed up at Tuesday's City Commission meeting to criticize the city's management of ...
