To address the growing need for additional preschool opportunities, the Lawrence school district will be opening additional capacity at several elementary schools later this month.
Previously, the district’s primary early childhood programming was located at Kennedy Early Childhood Center and New York Montessori. Since 2025, the district has expanded 3- and 4-year-old classrooms into neighborhood elementary ...
Collision Leaders of Lawrence donated over $1,000 worth of school supplies to Sunflower Elementary School.
Several employees from the auto body and repair shop stopped by Sunflower Elementary on Wednesday afternoon to donate boxes of paper as well as backpacks with pencils, notebooks, two-pocket folders, markers, pencil boxes and water bottles.
“We try to give back to the community,” Gary Carbaugh, ...
A famed team of horses – the Budweiser Clydesdales – are returning to Lawrence next week for two occasions.
The Budweiser Clydesdales are a famous team of large Clydesdale horses used in promotional appearances and advertising for Budweiser. The horses typically travel as a hitch, or team, and pull a historic-style red Budweiser wagon. The wagon is modeled after the horse-drawn delivery wagons that ...
Lawrence – along with other cities in the area – is currently experiencing a multi-day, late-summer heat wave with the heat index reaching 105 degrees Fahrenheit most days.
Wednesday will bring sunny and hot weather conditions, with the high near 97 degrees Fahrenheit and the low around 78, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. On Thursday, conditions will be similar with a high close to 96 ...
A Douglas County judge has ruled that planning commissioners produce a feasible set of documents within a month in the ongoing legal dispute over a proposed 159-megawatt solar farm in northern Douglas County.
On Tuesday, Judge James McCabria ruled that Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commissioners who received subpoenas in a case involving the Kansas Sky Energy Center move forward with a production of ...
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office has officially settled into the new Public Safety Building next to the county jail, providing an expansive space for staff.
The department is occupying the main level of the new Public Safety Building – right next to the Douglas County Correctional Facility, 3601 E. 25th St. The floor has 25,565 square feet of space as well as a garage that will eventually house all of ...
