A proposal that would allow people to openly consume alcohol in downtown Lawrence around Massachusetts Street is coming into further focus with a draft of a proposed boundary of the area.
As the Journal-World reported back in June, city leaders began reaching out to downtown merchants and other businesses about the possibility of creating a common consumption area, or CCA, a designated area where individuals ...
As Peaslee Tech celebrated its 10th birthday on Thursday with a host of speakers reflecting on the founding of the school, leaders hope it can continue to grow and become more self-sufficient while providing new training opportunities for workers.
The school, which first opened its doors to students back in 2015, was a part of a larger group effort of multiple government and other civic groups coming together ...
In in-person meetings with neighborhood groups this week, the team working to create Lawrence's new land development code heard concerns that it could cause a “perfect storm” of student housing.
But planning leaders say they want to reassure the public that that scenario isn't likely to happen.
During the Planning Commission's meeting on Wednesday, commissioners heard about the feedback gathered at the ...
The playground at Clinton Park is currently closed after someone apparently vandalized a play structure in a way that made it unsafe to use, according to a city official.
Mark Hecker, assistant director of Parks and Recreation, said during a Parks and Recreation Advisory Board meeting Monday night that someone over the weekend had removed the caps from the tops of the poles holding up the play structure.
The ...
In an overflowing City Commission room Tuesday night, fire department staff and dozens of Lawrence residents expressed their concern over a budget proposal to cut daily staffing for the Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical department.
The proposed 2025 city budget, which was presented to the commission on Tuesday and would increase the city's property tax rate by 3.5 mills, would also decrease minimum staffing ...
Updated at 4:43 p.m. Monday, July 8
As part of the proposal for next year’s city budget, Lawrence City Manager Craig Owens is asking for a measure to be put on the November ballot in which Lawrence residents would vote on whether to raise the affordable housing sales tax from 0.05% to 0.10%.
A large amount of the new money would fund programs for homeless services, which the city created with temporary ...
