Growing up, Carrie Greenwood never saw her disability as a bad thing — but she also didn't see many other wheelchair users like her in her everyday life.
She was born with a condition called arthrogryposis, which means her muscles are weaker and that she's missing some muscles and contractures in her bones and joints, and she has used a wheelchair her whole life.
So after she discovered the website for Miss ...
Downtown Lawrence should soon have a new mural from artists with the local nonprofit Van Go.
The Cultural Arts Commission unanimously approved Wednesday night the designs for a mural that will be installed adjacent to the entrance for the offices of local engineering consulting firm GPW & Associates, located at 1001 New Hampshire St.
Although the City Commission will still need to provide final ...
Lawrence city commissioners will consider approving financial incentives for an affordable housing complex in East Lawrence that's being spearheaded by a longtime local developer.
Developer Tony Krsnich’s Flint Hills Holding Group sent in an application to the city for Industrial Revenue Bonds that would allow the development at 716 East Ninth St. — currently known as 9 Del Lofts II — to not pay sales tax ...
Although Haskell Indian Nations University students are celebrating a ruling that would reinstate dozens of employees who were abruptly fired last month, many of them say they're still feeling the fallout of the layoffs — and wary of what might happen next.
On Thursday morning, U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco ordered the departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, the ...
The leader of a Lawrence food bank said the cancellation of two federal programs that allow the purchase of food from local farmers will be “detrimental” for local families in need.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday canceled a pair of programs — the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program and the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program — that gave schools and ...
Lawrence's Parks, Recreation and Culture department will have to scale back its programming if it doesn't raise its existing entry fees or implement new ones, the department's director warned the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board on Monday.
Director Luis Ruiz told the advisory board those conversations about adding fees would happen as part of ongoing city budget discussions. As the Journal-World reported, ...
