When patients move into Cardinal Housing Network's new sober living home, Hannah Bolton will be thinking of someone who could relate to their struggles: her brother Sam.
Sam struggled with substance abuse off and on for years, Bolton, the founder and program director of Cardinal Housing Network, said at a ribbon-cutting for the group home at 1046 New Hampshire St. on Wednesday. Sometimes fighting back tears, ...
A community mural at the street level could be coming to the Old West Lawrence neighborhood, thanks to the help of a prominent local artist.
The Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission approved a proposal earlier this month to paint a mural near the Lawrence Community Nursery School, 645 Alabama St., right in the intersection of Alabama Street and Seventh Street.
The mural would be painted by Dave Loewenstein, a ...
On their mission to run all the way across Kansas from north to south, Jonathan Prosser and Sean Frost got chased by dogs, jumped over a creek, had to spend the night in a van because there were no hotels nearby.
And that was just the first day.
The two ultra-marathoners from Topeka, who are running both to challenge themselves and to raise money for charities in their hometown, should soon be reaching the ...
Nearly two dozen residents emotionally and publicly beseeched the Lawrence City Commission to not consider a resolution that could potentially harm vulnerable populations in the community.
The city had included Resolution No. 7599 on Tuesday's agenda when the agenda was first publicly posted on Thursday evening. That resolution, in order to “comply with federal Executive Orders of the current ...
The Lawrence City Commission approved a rezoning request Tuesday for a vacant piece of land near LMH Health that could allow the development of a 24-unit apartment complex.
The commission voted 3-2 to rezone 0.69 acres of land at the southwest corner of West Third and Michigan streets from an R-2 low-density residential district to an R-4 high-density residential district. Commissioners Bart Littlejohn and ...
Most years, Erick Vaughn says one of the biggest challenges facing his organization, Douglas County CASA, is people not knowing much about it.
The group’s mission is to use specially trained volunteers called Court Appointed Special Advocates to advocate for children who have been removed from their homes and placed under court protection. In Douglas County in any given year, there are about 140 children in ...
