The City of Lawrence is now taking applications for the 2025 Community Arts Grant Program, and the city will add another option of “mini grants” for artists as well.
The grants program is a competitive grant initiative designed to provide funding for art programs and projects in Lawrence. The program is overseen by the Cultural Arts Commission, and the grants are funded through the city’s transient guest ...
A dredging project at the Kaw River Water Treatment Plant could close a portion of the river for up to two months sometime this year, but the exact details of when that work might happen are still up in the air.
The Lawrence City Commission recently approved a $510,000 agreement with Veit & Company Inc. to complete the project, which will help maintain the intake pumps for the Kaw River Water Treatment ...
A few details are starting to emerge about the closed-door Community Budget Committee created by Lawrence City Hall.
For one, the seven-member group tasked with providing advice on what is expected to be a difficult 2026 city budget has a strong connection to local governments, nonprofits and the field of public administration. For another, Lawrence City Manager Craig Owens had the final say in selecting the ...
With the new year comes a slightly new name for Lawrence’s Parks and Recreation Department — going forward, it will be known as Parks, Recreation and Culture.
The change is now official after the Lawrence City Commission approved it during its final meeting of 2024. Porter Arneill, an assistant director with the department, told the Journal-World that the department's work today encompasses many cultural ...
Lawrence definitely wasn’t alone in seeing a rise in homelessness in 2023. In fact, it was about average, according to new national statistics.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Friday that federally required counts taken across the country in January found that more than 770,000 people were counted as homeless, which was an 18.1% increase nationally from last year. As the ...
Ahead of Thursday night's menorah lighting to celebrate Hanukkah, the Lawrence rabbi helping to lead the celebration said the event — symbolizing the idea of light over darkness — was symbolic for a number of reasons.
Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel, co-director of the Chabad Center for Jewish Life, said Thursday's was the 18th Community Menorah Lighting in Lawrence, and 18 has a special significance in Jewish ...
