Four potential sites have risen to the top of the Lawrence Farmers Market list of sites that could host a permanent location downtown. The Lawrence Farmers Market will present the results from a feasibility study to city staff on Monday about its search for a permanent downtown location.
The potential sites being explored include the market’s current location at the parking lot at 824 New Hampshire St., the ...
A Lawrence alcohol and drug treatment center believes new agreements with major insurance companies can open the doors to more clients seeking treatment by lowering costs for its program.
The Avalon Wellness and Recovery Center, 801 Iowa St., announced in a press release Friday it was now an in-network provider with three new health insurance companies: Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna and TRICARE. The center, ...
An idle conversation during a board meeting for the Watkins Museum of History sparked an idea that could breathe new life into an old stadium.
Andrew Stockmann, the curator of exhibitions for the Watkins, said he overheard Justine Burton, one of the museum’s board members, talking about how Satchel Paige had once played baseball in Lawrence.
As Kansas City-native and amateur baseball historian, Stockmann ...
As De Soto envisions expanding the industrial park near the massive new Panasonic factory, a small nature park near the Douglas County border could literally be in the way of that growth.
The Sunflower Nature Park in De Soto — a 58-acre park about five miles outside of Eudora — sits just south of Edgerton Road and is adjacent to the site of the former Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant. Brian Nowotny, the ...
Ahead of the first public engagement meeting for the design of Lawrence’s new fire station in the northwestern part of the city, project leaders plan to provide details about how the design attempts reduce the impact to the neighborhood.
Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical will be hosting a public listening session about plans for the new fire station dubbed “Station 6” Monday night, as the Journal-World ...
The Lawrence-Douglas County Health Board voted to approve a tentative agreement for the health department to provide health services for residents at the Douglas County Juvenile Detention Center.
The board voted unanimously earlier in the month to allow for the Lawrence Douglas-County Public Health to sign off on a deal that would provide physical health and nursing services to residents at the Juvenile ...
