Entering the Grassy Hill New Folk Competition for Emerging Songwriters at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Kerrville, Texas, was a first for Lawrence songwriting duo Byron James and Rita Beyer. But the pair didn’t just participate — they went and won the whole thing. James and Beyer’s entries — a pair of songs titled “Rodeo Clown” and “Aliens” — were chosen late last month as one of six ...
At the upcoming restorative justice conference taking place on Haskell Indian Nations University’s campus Thursday and Friday, there’ll be more than just breakout sessions to listen to. One of the highlights on both days of the conference is a street opera performance of “The Return,” an original play written and adapted by the founder of the Ste. Genevieve Theatre Guild, Kristen Chibitty, and directed ...
On Wednesday morning, a group of officials with Amarr, a Lawrence garage door manufacturer, milled around in a parking lot at their facility at East Hills Business Park. But they weren’t waiting on a ride. Instead, they were waiting for a different kind of vehicle — in this case, a forklift — to haul the prototype version of a new emergency shelter concept into an empty parking space. Peaslee Tech ...
NextEra Energy Resources, the Florida-based energy firm vying to bring part of a 3,000-acre solar project to southeastern Douglas County, is hosting its second public meeting about the project in as many months later this week. While the last meeting NextEra hosted in May served as more of a straightforward presentation about the company’s “West Gardner Solar” project, the Thursday event is being called a ...
Kansans have one last chance in the next week or so to request free at-home COVID-19 tests through a program supported in part by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The KDHE on Tuesday announced a change to the Project Access COVID Tests program, a partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation’s public charity, RF Catalytic Capital. Project ACT has allowed folks to request tests via the mail and ...
A restorative justice conference will take place at Haskell Indian Nations University later this week, and the full list of speakers, panelists and performances for the two-day event has been announced. As the Journal-World reported last month, the City of Lawrence, Explore Lawrence, the Mennonite Central Committee, the Topeka Center for Peace and Justice, the organization Life Comes From It and mediation and ...