Another 20 benches created by young employees for arts-based social service nonprofit Van Go’s “Benchmark” program were unveiled to the community Friday evening.
Benchmark is the culmination of Van Go’s summer JAMS employment program for youths ages 14 to 18. For the past two months, JAMS artists have been working with clients in the community as they designed and painted a custom bench based on their ...
The City of Lawrence is starting work on a study to transition metered parking violations in downtown Lawrence from being treated like criminal misdemeanor offenses to a civil process.
The city announced the upcoming work in a release Wednesday morning. According to the release, the changes will create a new administrative procedure for municipal parking offenses that replaces the current legal process through ...
The Lawrence Community Shelter’s funds are well short of the roughly $1.6 million per year it needs to keep running, and the nonprofit hopes that being transparent about its financial situation will help generate more community support.
That was the message from LCS Interim Director Melanie Valdez about a week after asking for the community’s help to keep the shelter’s doors open. As the Journal-World ...
Reports detailing Lawrence City Commission candidates’ fundraising receipts and expenditures have been released, and one candidate has raised far more than the rest.
The Douglas County Clerk’s Office on Tuesday shared reports for six of the eight candidates running for seats on the City Commission in the August primary, and Mike Dever — who served on the City Commission from 2007 to 2015, including two ...
Although interior demolition at the future home of the Community Children’s Center’s child care support hub is now complete, the work to open the facility is still far from done.
The next big step will be renovation efforts to turn what’s now largely a clean slate at 346 Maine St. into the Early Childhood Community Center. The facility will eventually provide daytime, overnight and weekend care for ...
The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission could take the penultimate step in enacting the new long-range plan guiding Douglas County’s transportation system this week.
At its Wednesday meeting, the Planning Commission will consider approving an amendment to the city and county’s joint comprehensive plan, Plan 2040, that would incorporate “Transportation 2050,” a new version of the metropolitan ...
