Before sharpening its goals for the future, the North Lawrence study task force on Wednesday night had some questions about the past.
Some of the members, who were tasked with coming up with a vision statement for the study, were wondering what made it unique among all the other studies and plans the city and the county had done. Some didn’t want to waste time duplicating older work.
And as for North ...
What does a leader in the local music scene do? Nick Carswell has been doing it for more than a decade, and his answer is: Whatever the musicians need him to do.
Carswell, who founded the Lawrence Music Alliance in 2023, has actually been helping musicians since around 2009, when he was living in Ireland. “I discovered artists whose music I was just very excited about,” he told the Journal-World, “and I ...
A publicly traded company that specializes in “smart home” technology is no longer eyeing the former Journal-World printing facility on Massachusetts Street for its new location, and it will be requesting development incentives for a site on Vermont Street instead.
The company is Alarm.com, and it was planning to use part of the former printing plant at 630 Massachusetts St. as a new office for about 70 ...
Lawrence city leaders at their meeting Tuesday gave their consent to the sale of Hamm Landfill to a nationwide waste disposal company.
The commission voted 4-0, with Commissioner Mike Dever absent, to authorize City Manager Craig Owens to sign letters of consent to the sale of Hamm Landfill and Hamm Material Recovery Facility, which processes recycling, to Allied Waste Systems.
The reason the city had to ...
City leaders took a step forward Tuesday on an incentive package for an affordable housing project that would create 121 units of affordable housing in western Lawrence.
At its regular meeting, the Lawrence City Commission voted 3-1, with Vice Mayor Mike Courtney opposed and commissioner Mike Dever absent, to approve a resolution of intent to issue two incentives for the Floret Hill development at the southeast ...
No matter who wins USA Today’s contest for best brewpub this year, Free State Brewing Company founder Chuck Magerl thinks there’s a title they all deserve: “third place.”
Not the kind of “third place” his brewery won in the contest last year, though. The “third place” that sociologists speak of – a place people gather “that’s different from work or different from home.”
“As far as ...
