City commissioners will hold a public hearing Tuesday night to discuss a request for tax incentives for the Q39 restaurant project in downtown Lawrence.
The plans to bring the popular Kansas City barbecue restaurant to Lawrence have been around for more than a year, but the future of the actual project at 639 New Hampshire St., the site of the former Journal-World printing plant, has become uncertain. The ...
The City of Lawrence has begun offering eligible employees a voluntary early retirement package in an effort to address the city’s budget shortfall.
The city sent out information about the early retirement program to employees starting April 16.
At a City Commission meeting in April, city staff presented a budget that addressed a projected $6.6 million shortfall; that budget included cuts to 23 full-time ...
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Federal cuts to AmeriCorps mean 10 active projects in Kansas have been terminated, affecting more than 200 AmeriCorps volunteers across the state. Nonprofits in Douglas County say it will cause “severe damage,” with 80 positions being cut and a financial impact of over $400,000.
The Kansas Volunteer Commission was informed by the Department of Government ...
The Lawrence Public Library is seeking proposals for work to develop a comprehensive facilities master plan, with the library’s director hoping it can guide the library to serve the public more equitably.
Brad Allen, the Lawrence Public Library’s executive director, presented a request-for-proposals document to the library’s Board of Trustees during its regular meeting this month. The library requests ...
The future for Allie Martinez once looked as simple as painting by numbers.
In early 2020, she was named Lawrence’s Youth of the Year by the local Boys and Girls Club, she was applying to prestigious art schools around the country, and she got accepted to one of the most famous, the Art Institute of Chicago.
Then the COVID pandemic hit, and suddenly, instead of going to art school, she was taking a gap year, ...
Leaders at Just Food appreciate the Douglas County community for stepping up and providing more than $20,000 in donations after the food pantry announced that it would receive around 30% less food from a federal program.
Earlier in April as the Journal-World reported, the pantry said in a news release that due to federal cuts, it would receive 30% less food through The Emergency Food Assistance Program, or ...
