The Lawrence school board could soon authorize a study of the district's middle and high school athletic facilities to determine what kinds of repairs and improvements they will need in the future.
According to the agenda for its meeting on Monday, the school board will be considering an athletic facilities master planning study for the four middle schools and two high schools. The study would be conducted by ...
At the Kansas Land Trust’s annual fundraising event, the organization announced the goal to close on three conservation easements by the end of the summer.
On Thursday, the Kansas Land Trust hosted its Summer Solstice Celebration at Cider Gallery to raise funds and awareness for the 30-year-old nonprofit. The organization works with willing landowners to develop voluntary conservation agreements to preserve ...
A future Lawrence-based center that will provide mental health care and substance abuse treatment to children has its first director, which puts it on track for a 2026 opening.
Kristin Vernon, a licensed specialist clinical social worker, has been hired to become the first director of the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center’s youth recovery center, which will open in the former healthcare building near ...
It's not surprising that a retired university faculty member who's written a lot about water issues might write a book that starts in a dry riverbed.
What might be surprising: the human hand a couple of girls find in the riverbed.
That mystery, and a western Kansas county sheriff's quest to crack it, are the premise of "The Illusion of Simple" by Charles Jones, the retired director of KU’s Public Management ...
A Lawrence church, in appreciation of the people who protect and serve the community, has dedicated part of its building for the exclusive use of local first responders.
Velocity Church, 4000 W. Sixth St., which used to house a Hy-Vee grocery store, has created a unique space on its premises for firefighters, law enforcement officers, paramedics and emergency medical technicians.
The room, which was made ...
A documentary capturing one of Kansas City’s first Black police officers and the city’s first Black department director, Alvin Brooks, will premiere Wednesday at the Juneteenth Film Festival at the Screenland Armour Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri.
The film, “The Heroic True-Life Adventures of Alvin Brooks,” was written, produced and directed by Kevin Willmott, a professor of film and media studies at ...
