Lawrence’s Family Promise recently completed the conversion of a longtime day care building into a shelter for homeless families, and it held an open house on Tuesday to celebrate the project's completion.
The nonprofit's new facility is intended to house up to six homeless families at any given time. The property, located at 200 Mount Hope Court, is equipped with bedrooms, multiple kitchens and a playground ...
After interviewing two agencies, the Lawrence school board selected the Kansas Association of School Boards to help with the Lawrence school district's search for a permanent superintendent.
Board members held two interviews during their business meeting on Monday with McPherson & Jacobson LLC and the Kansas Association of School Boards.
The board conducted two 40-minute interviews with the agencies and ...
As Lawrence expands to the south with projects like the proposed New Boston Crossing, the landscape in its urban growth area is expected to change quite a bit with new residential and retail development.
But five years ago, the landscape southwest of Lawrence changed in a much more unexpected — and frightening — way.
At the end of July 2019, 8 to 10 inches of rain fell over the course of just eight hours ...
The Lawrence school board at its Monday meeting will be interviewing a firm to assist with the district's search for a permanent superintendent, whom the board hopes to have in place by the start of the next school year.
Board members will be interviewing representatives from McPherson & Jacobson LLC as a possible search firm to aid with tasks associated with selecting a new district leader.
The board ...
A peaceful walk with her dog led to Sandra Issa acquiring a tick bite — and, ultimately, to her having to stay away from red meat and dairy products.
“I removed the tick and didn’t think too much about it, and then I was having stomach problems,” Issa said.
“ … And then on the Fourth of July I ate part of a hamburger,” she said. “As the evening went on, I started thinking, ‘Wow, I don’t ...
Douglas County commissioners learned on Wednesday that only around 72% of the federal funding they distributed through the American Rescue Plan Act has been utilized, and they approved measures to maximize the money's impact before the end-of-the-year deadline to spend it.
In July 2022, the county awarded $23,747,378 in ARPA funding — which is emergency funding to help state and local governments respond to ...
