A simple two-word question — "what if?" — and the limitless imagination of children is what sparked a two-year-long process that led to a formerly homeless person being housed.
Madeline Herrera, the co-founder and director at Limestone Community School in Lawrence, said that as students began returning to class in January 2023 after winter break, she was working to figure out what the class’s next big ...
When Charlie Johnson got a call during one of his virtual classes at the University of Kansas in March, he let it go to voicemail since he didn’t recognize the number.
Johnson, a senior from Lawrence who went to Free State High School, soon saw on the auto-transcription of the voicemail that it was “so and so from Carnegie calling."
“I started freaking out,” Johnson said.
Johnson, who is majoring in ...
Douglas County food pantry Just Food announced it will receive 30% less food from one of its partners in the coming months after a federal program was canceled — meaning a loss of 2,400 pounds each month.
In a news release Thursday, the food pantry said Harvesters, its regional Feeding America distributor, was notified that orders through The Emergency Food Assistance Program — a federal nutrition program ...
Roadwork along Tennessee Street near Old West Lawrence will close portions of the one-way artery to through traffic in mid-April as part of a large-scale stormwater project.
Tennessee Street already has one lane closed between Sixth Street and Ninth Street because of work on a water main in the parking lane of the street, Nick Hoyt, Lawrence’s lead program manager on this project, told the Journal-World. Hoyt ...
Leaders with Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence haven't provided specifics about how much its workforce was impacted by a recent “reduction in force,” but they say they're confident their 12 locations will remain open in the meantime.
As the Journal-World reported, the BGCLK said in a news release on Monday that it implemented a “necessary reduction in force” on Friday, leading to “the elimination of ...
Lawrence city commissioners largely agreed on Tuesday with the latest update of the city's 2026 budget, which included proposed staffing reductions across departments, adding back money to the city’s reserve fund and keeping market rate pay increases for employees as the city needs to cut $6.6 million.
On Tuesday night, staff presented commissioners with a summary of what the reductions would look like across ...
