On Thursday, his last day at Free State High School, Richard has just gotten out of woodworking class.
How strange is that – woodworking, cooking and acting classes in a public school?
It’s quite strange indeed for Richard and a dozen other students from Lawrence’s sister city of Eutin, Germany. They recently got done spending two and a half weeks learning at American high schools, living with American ...
In a typical year, Ron Schmidt and the 30-member Lawrence Potters' Guild do a show at Maceli’s, one at Trinity Lutheran Church, a couple outside the Lawrence Public Library.
“Last time we had a [show] at the library, the wind came up and blew a whole display over,” he says. Thousands of dollars worth of work was destroyed – a tragedy for a group that makes art mainly in their spare time.
They won’t ...
With all of the sales tax collections from June and July in the books, it's pretty clear that a massive World Cup boost didn't happen in Lawrence. But, might it be worth watching for a Costco boost?
One assumes city leaders are hoping for that, because Lawrence is back to collecting less in sales taxes than it did a year ago.
As we reported, the city got a little bit of a bump in its August sales tax numbers, ...
When city leaders approved Lawrence’s new bicycle infrastructure plan on Tuesday, they also had questions about some roads that weren’t prioritized in it – Kentucky and Tennessee streets.
The Lawrence City Commission voted 4-0 to adopt the updated Lawrence Bikes Plan, which will serve as a framework for bicycle infrastructure improvements in the community in the years to come. The plan had not been ...
A judge ordered a year of probation on Wednesday for a man accused of selling wristbands to a group of underage people so that they could drink alcohol at The Jayhawk Cafe just hours before a fatal shooting there.
Hunter J. Noravong, 20, was originally charged with four counts of “purchase or consumption of alcoholic beverage by a minor,” a Class C nonperson misdemeanor. But on Wednesday, he pleaded no ...
The local health department had plenty of tobacco stats for city commissioners on Tuesday night. Stats like of 89 licensed retailers in the city, eight are within 0.5 miles of New York Elementary School alone.
But there was one that Vice Mayor Mike Courtney just had to double-check:
“You said that Lawrence has more vape density than Las Vegas?”
Vicki Collie-Akers of Lawrence-Douglas County Public ...
