A colorful mural inspired by Kansas and Jewish themes will adorn the new facility that will house KU’s Chabad Center.
City Commissioners approved a request Tuesday night from the Chabad Center to allow the mural on its new two-story facility at 1203 W. 19th St. near the University of Kansas campus. The mural will be located on the front of the building near the entrance, and the request said it was intended ...
Lawrence city commissioners voted Tuesday to approve updated agreements between the city and Kansas Department of Transportation for federal funds for a road redesign of Massachusetts Street and other sidewalk projects.
The commissioners approved — as part of their consent agenda, which is approved with a single vote — new agreements between the city and KDOT to disburse federal grant funding won by the ...
The Eudora City Commission voted last week to end its city manager’s contract, effective immediately.
The commission voted during a special meeting Friday night to end the city's relationship with Kevyn Gero. Gero was hired as Eudora’s city manager in June 2023 after previously serving as the interim city manager, as the Journal-World reported.
Eudora Mayor Tim Reazin told the Journal-World that the ...
At midday Wednesday at Burcham Park, not even being by the Kansas River provided relief. With the sun beating down and the heat index around 100 degrees, it would have been a wise idea to stay inside.
But that’s not an option everyone in Lawrence has.
Many people are still living outside in Douglas County — in unverified point-in-time count data from January 2025, 142 people in the county were found to be ...
The Senior Resource Center for Douglas County is warning about scammers posing as someone with the center and claiming to be selling burial plots, and it wants to advise residents on how to avoid being scammed.
Megan Poindexter, the executive director of the SRC, told the Journal-World the center was first notified about the scam this week by one of the center’s clients who called about it. Although the ...
For years, multimodal transportation advocate Bill Steele says, Lawrence has lagged behind some of its peers on bike infrastructure. It's spent more money on projects for cars, he said, and its streets are "overbuilt."
But he and other members of the Sustainability Action Network think they have a fix: Just build city streets a little less for cars — sometimes with fewer motor vehicle lanes — and add a new, ...
