The leader of a Lawrence food bank said the cancellation of two federal programs that allow the purchase of food from local farmers will be “detrimental” for local families in need.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday canceled a pair of programs — the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program and the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program — that gave schools and ...
Lawrence's Parks, Recreation and Culture department will have to scale back its programming if it doesn't raise its existing entry fees or implement new ones, the department's director warned the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board on Monday.
Director Luis Ruiz told the advisory board those conversations about adding fees would happen as part of ongoing city budget discussions. As the Journal-World reported, ...
A community group aiming to get historical preservation status for the Municipal Stadium in East Lawrence’s Hobbs Park, with the hopes of helping revitalize the structure and park, earned support from the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board on Monday night.
The board voted 5-0 to support the group, called The Municipal Stadium in Hobbs Park Legacy Project, in sending a proposal to get the Municipal Stadium ...
She said "I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore," but maybe Dorothy meant "we're not in California."
After all, no part of "The Wizard of Oz," that iconic film that so many from outside of the state associate with Kansas, was shot here. It was done on a soundstage in Culver City, California. And it's not alone.
Superman's adoptive Kansas hometown of Smallville in the 1978 Christopher Reeve film was ...
Twice a month, bus riders in Lawrence who stop at Central Station can pick up their groceries while they're there, thanks to a partnership with food banks Just Food and Harvesters that's served more than 200 households so far.
The program, called "Thriving Thursdays," has been distributing food since late last year at Central Station, 2315 Bob Billings Parkway, on the second and third Thursdays of each month, ...
After the shock of mass firings at Haskell Indian Nations University last month, organizations across Lawrence are looking to find ways to support the workers who suddenly lost their jobs.
Evie Lazzarino, the vice president of external affairs for The Chamber, said that when the organization learned of the firings, which were first announced Feb. 14, it reached out to form an ad hoc group to help Haskell's ...
