While brackets made for the NCAA Tournament may be going bust over the first weekend with crazy upsets and buzzer beating shots, the tournament can serve as a boom for college basketball hubs like Lawrence.
Of course, regular season Kansas Jayhawk gamedays bring a lot of people to the town during the regular season, but the excitement of the 68-team tournament colloquially called March Madness brings a whole ...
Before Haskell Indian Nations University's new turf softball field opened on Friday, head coach Jolona Shield-Dzakic said, the team had basically been playing in the dirt.
The old field didn't have lights or a scoreboard, she told the Journal-World. Players had to miss classes because they couldn't play night games, and their ballpark was pretty much a “dirt field.” But now, the team has much more than a ...
Lawrence's Historic Resources Commission voted Thursday for further review of a proposed “very-high-density” apartment complex to see how the design could better fit the guidelines of the historic Oread neighborhood.
Commissioners voted 5-0 Thursday night with one abstention to refer the project planned for the 1400 blocks of Ohio and Louisiana streets to the commission's Architectural Review Committee. ...
At two town hall meetings next week, the Lawrence Public Library’s leaders hope to get more ideas from the public to help guide the creation of the library's master plan.
The library will have two meetings next week: one at its building at 707 Vermont St. from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, March 23, and the other at Johnny’s West, 721 Wakarusa Drive, from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 25. The meetings are town-hall ...
A Lawrence library official says a new tutoring program designed to help adults improve their literacy and English skills in one-on-one meetings is “ready to go” after an initial launch this year.
The Lawrence Public Library announced Friday in a press release it was offering free one-on-one tutoring for adults seeking to improve their literacy skills. The program is for both fluent English speakers who ...
For the 80 years that the University Press of Kansas has been around, it has been about focus.
The press traditionally served as the publishing house for Kansas’s six state universities — Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Kansas State University, Pittsburg State University, the University of Kansas, and Wichita State University. In that time, it has published over 2,000 different titles, ...
