WRITER: Josie Heimsoth

Friends group leads effort to build new 18-hole disc golf course at Clinton State Park

A new 18-hole championship-caliber disc golf course is coming to Clinton State Park to expand disc golf opportunities in Lawrence. The new disc golf course is part of an effort by Friends of Clinton State Park – a volunteer organization dedicated to supporting, improving, and promoting Clinton State Park – and Ryan Cecil, a member of the organization, said the goal is for it to open in late October or ...

With preschool waitlist topping 160 families, Lawrence school district to add 5 classrooms

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 ...

Budweiser Clydesdales returning to Lawrence next week for two events honoring first responders

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 ...

Collision Leaders donates over $1,000 worth of school supplies to Sunflower Elementary School

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 multi-day heat wave hits Lawrence and cooling options are available across the city

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 ...

Planning commissioners must produce documents within 30 days in solar farm dispute, judge rules

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 ...