Entering the parking lot for Uplift Coffee on North Second Street in North Lawrence, you'll have to navigate through orange traffic cones.
As you walk up to the counter to place your order, you'll also encounter some orange traffic cones there. They are spongy, miniature cones styled after a stress ball, but they represent the minor hurdle that Kelli Huslig, owner of Uplift Coffee, has faced for her business. ...
Step into what looks like an ordinary alleyway in the shadow of downtown Lawrence's taller buildings, and you'll catch a glimpse of colorful sunflowers, coneflowers, bees and monarch butterflies.
They're not real ones, of course; they're in a new mural that welcomes guests to the Social Service League's thrift store. The league is one of Lawrence's oldest nonprofit organizations, and it collaborated with ...
The Lawrence chamber of commerce has officially endorsed a proposal on the November ballot that would change the city’s government structure to one with a directly elected mayor and some city commissioners elected by districts.
The Chamber announced in a statement Friday afternoon that it would endorse the proposal. In the statement, Chamber President and CEO Bonnie Lowe said the chamber voted to endorse the ...
A plan to add two dozen Pallet shelters behind the Lawrence Community Shelter, increasing the number of people the site can house nightly by nearly 50, has received another key approval.
The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission on Wednesday night unanimously approved a special use permit that would allow the addition of 24 Pallet shelters, the last step before the plan goes to the Lawrence City ...
Four projects that offer resources to address addiction and opioid abuse in Lawrence, provide homelessness services and support local first responders will be implemented thanks to $254,000 in opioid settlement funds.
Earlier in the year, members of the Homeless Solutions Division, Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical and the Lawrence Police Department met to decide which projects would receive the funding ...
A Lawrence nonprofit formed by a group of downtown business leaders urges residents to vote “no” on the referendum question asking for an increase in the city’s affordable housing sales tax that would help fund services to help people experiencing homelessness.
The group Lawrence Cares, which was formed in February to focus on addressing homelessness issues, wrote in a letter Friday that it has ...
