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 ...
The Lawrence Regional Airport has been chosen to receive more than $600,000 from the state to improve a runway, and the airport’s manager says it will help ensure the airport is in “tip-top shape” ahead of the World Cup in 2026.
In a press release Thursday, Gov. Laura Kelly announced $14.5 million in grants for 47 Kansas airports through the Kansas Airport Improvement Program. Lawrence will receive ...
Local organizers are hosting a walk on Saturday morning in Lawrence to support the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) in its mission to save lives and bring hope to those affected by suicide.
The Lawrence Area Campus Walk will take place Saturday, April 26, at 11 a.m. at the Lawrence Rotary Arboretum as part of a nationwide effort called Out of the Darkness Campus Walks.
Heather Fiore, a local ...
Dozens of Haskell Indian Nations University community members joined EPA officials on Wednesday at a ribbon-cutting for a device that will monitor air quality on campus and provide more opportunities for students to do hands-on environmental research.
The ceremony was to celebrate an air monitor for the Clean Air Status and Trends Network, or CASTNET. Though the ribbon-cutting was on Wednesday, the monitor has ...
The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission on Monday night approved a rezoning request for a portion of a former call center property that developers say will include some affordable housing.
The commission approved a request to rezone just under three acres at 2000 Bluffs Drive from mixed-use to a residential housing district. The property, part of a nearly six-acre site that includes a 50,000-square-foot ...
