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 ...
Lawrence's new Land Development Code has a lot to say about what can be built and where, but for Mike Delaney, the more urgent question is how easy it will be to tear things down.
Delaney is the president of the Lawrence Preservation Alliance, and he and other advocates worry about what will happen when the new rules take effect in April 2025. If the code incentivizes development in older neighborhoods, they ...
Updated at 3:03 p.m. Friday, Dec. 20
Lawrence has entered a new Snow Plowing Era.
One lucky snow plow that will clear Treacherous roadways into Blank Spaces for drivers will be graced with the name Taylor Drift, after the city announced Friday that name was selected by the judging panel as the winner of the city’s 2024 Snow Plow Naming Contest.
The city said in a press release that this year’s naming ...
Lawrence Arts Center leaders say they're facing an "unprecedented financial challenge” from such factors as inflation and lingering effects of the COVID pandemic, and a fundraising email the center sent to its supporters this week claims that its very future “is at risk.”
The letter requesting donations was sent out to subscribers Tuesday evening and was signed by Ryann Galloway Tacha, the Arts Center's ...
