Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday voted to approve a $3.5 million funding agreement with the Lawrence Community Shelter to provide supportive services for people experiencing homelessness, with the expectation that the shelter will rely less on city funding in the future.
Commissioners voted unanimously to approve the agreement, which lays out that LCS will provide emergency and winter sheltering services, ...
A proposal to add six more units of affordable housing near downtown Lawrence got initial approval from the Historic Resources Commission, moving it to the City Commission.
The HRC unanimously approved several items to allow for the continued re-development of a parking lot at 909 Tennessee St., replacing it with a three-story residential building that will have six units for temporary supportive housing.
The ...
Rex Ellebracht has been doing social work across Kansas for nearly 30 years by his own estimate, but it became even more personal for him after he lost a leg.
Ellebracht has diabetes, and around 10 or 12 years ago when he was facing complications from the disease, the doctors — after initially thinking they could potentially save his left leg — eventually decided it needed to be amputated. Ellebracht said ...
The city has a new development code that urges neighborhoods to become more dense by adding more buildings and homes.
While that strategy may fit with the goal of creating more affordable housing in the community, there’s a worry it may cause some potentially historic homes to get torn down to make way for new development.
Lawrence city commissioners next week may take action to alleviate some of those ...
Two more candidates have entered the race for the two Lawrence City Commission seats up for election in the fall.
Ruby Mae Johnson and Alex Kerr both filed this month for the election. They join Steve Jacob and Eric Hyde in the race. Jacob filed to run in January, as the Journal-World reported, and Hyde had filed in March 2024.
In a news release, Johnson said she brings a unique perspective as a transgender ...
City commissioners will convene a special meeting Feb. 25, a week after their regularly scheduled meeting was canceled due to severe weather.
The city announced Monday night that the Feb. 18 meeting would be canceled because of a winter storm warning and potentially “dangerous travel conditions” on Tuesday. At the time, Sherri Riedemann, Lawrence’s city clerk, told the Journal-World that city staff were ...
