At this week’s Lawrence City Commission meeting, city leaders will receive an update about a number of ongoing homelessness response initiatives, including the future Pallet Shelter Village on North Michigan Street and the recent shift to a shared governance structure at the Lawrence Community Shelter.
The update comes two weeks after city leaders requested more information about homelessness initiatives at ...
The leader of the Lawrence Public Library will soon be spending a few months out of the office, and he hopes that time away will ultimately help him bring some energy back to the organization.
Starting after this week’s Lawrence Public Library Board of Trustees meeting, Library Executive Director Brad Allen is going on a 12-week sabbatical. He’ll return in time for the board’s mid-December meeting. ...
A $1.5 million project to waterproof the foundation of the Douglas County Courthouse in downtown Lawrence is scheduled to begin Tuesday.
The county announced three phases for the upcoming construction at the courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St., in a news release Friday. The first phase beginning Tuesday will affect the one-hour parking lot just south of the courthouse, with the lot set to be closed through ...
When Frank Arpan was inaugurated as the newest president of Haskell Indian Nations University, he said he was tempted to treat the day of his ceremony as “just another Friday.”
But the gravity of the event dawned on him before long.
“This Friday is really not about me — this Friday is about Haskell,” Arpan, a citizen of the Yankton Sioux Tribe, said during his inauguration ceremony. “This Friday ...
Starting next week, Lawrence residents in need of a late-night ride home will have another option to consider besides Uber and Lyft — and this one’s free.
Lawrence Transit’s new Uber-like “microtransit” option will be available next Wednesday, with hours running from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. on weekdays and from 8 p.m. to midnight on Saturdays. Just like the existing ride share giants, people looking for an ...
Douglas County’s Criminal Justice Coordinating Council is seeking some outside perspective as it looks to improve.
At Tuesday’s CJCC meeting, council members heard more about a project that will help the group assess whether its purpose and structure align with best practices for criminal justice systems across the nation. The CJCC is working with the Justice Management Institute, a nonprofit based in ...
