Updated at 4:20 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 17
Although Thursday was the first full day of school for students in the Lawrence school district, there were some notable absences outside school buildings across the city.
That’s because there were still more than half a dozen vacant crossing guard positions that the City of Lawrence was working to fill.
A spokesperson with the city, Cori Wallace, confirmed to the ...
Usually, the process of moving into a new home doesn’t also involve moving the entire structure itself, but that’s exactly what happened Wednesday at 914 Ward St. in eastern Lawrence.
By late morning, a roughly 385-square-foot home had been placed on its foundation at the site. But just hours earlier, the structure was still patiently waiting in Peaslee Tech’s parking lot to be lifted by crane onto a ...
As of Tuesday, Lawrence is the first city in Kansas to make it illegal to make hiring, rental or public access decisions on the basis of someone’s natural hairstyle.
City leaders at Tuesday’s Lawrence City Commission meeting voted 5-0 to pass Ordinance No. 10003, which declares that restrictions or bans on natural hair or hairstyles “violate the intent and spirit” of the city’s anti-discrimination ...
A bus hub, a downtown grocery store and more affordable housing are among the ideas Lawrence leaders have for how some existing city-owned downtown parking lots could be repurposed in the future.
During Tuesday’s Lawrence City Commission meeting, commissioners set the stage for city-owned lots to host future mixed-use developments that could eventually incorporate any number of those ideas — or even others ...
When country music superstar Dolly Parton visited Overland Park on Monday to celebrate the successful statewide expansion of her flagship Imagination Library program, it made for an especially jubilant moment for a small group of volunteers from the county next door.
The push in the Kansas Legislature to extend access to the Imagination Library — which provides one free book per month to kids from birth ...
Starting this week, “poets, rappers, songwriters and dreamers” will all have a chance to grow as writers at Lawrence's DARE Center for the Homeless under the direction of a longtime creative writing instructor.
It's a new writing class, taught by author and lecturer Brian Daldorph, which aims to bring together both housed and unhoused members of the community to share their stories. The first class will ...
