Construction on Wakarusa Drive is set to resume Wednesday after a delay caused by utility conflicts, and the Kansas Department of Transportation has apologized to the city about the difficulties the closure of that roadway has caused.
That’s what City Manager Majed Al-Ghafry told the Lawrence City Commission on Tuesday night. He said he’d spoken with KDOT Secretary Calvin Reed about the project’s next ...
In the span of about a week, Sister Cities Lawrence Chair Bill Keel said on Tuesday night, Lawrence is getting some love from “Africa, Asia, and Europe.”
He was introducing the Europeans — a crowd of high school students from Eutin, Germany — and the visitors from Asia, an adult delegation from Hiratsuka, Japan, are arriving early next week. And, as for Africa, he announced at the Lawrence City ...
As soon as next summer, planning a new home in Lawrence might look less like a complicated city review process and more like ordering something off a menu.
That's because the city will be trying out a new program that connects builders and property owners with ready-to-use construction plans for single-family homes, duplexes and other dwellings that have already gone through the necessary city reviews.
It's ...
City leaders will vote this week on a $26 million bond issuance to fund water and sewer projects in Lawrence's Capital Improvement Plan.
The City Commission is scheduled to consider issuing the bonds at its meeting on Tuesday. A memo from finance staff to the commission said the projects the bonds would fund have already been approved by the commission as part of the CIP.
The CIP is a long-term list of ...
Miller Mart owner Sang Lee knows his regulars by name. He grabs what they want, like a specific brand of cigarettes, without them needing to ask for it.
“I’m at the point where I can count individual transactions on the computer and know which customer it was that made this one transaction by looking at it,” he says. “Every regular, they have a specific thing that they buy.”
He talks to one woman ...
New apartment buildings in North Lawrence, row houses near Holcom Park and a redevelopment of an old school building are a few of the projects that have applied for money from the city's Affordable Housing Trust Fund for 2027.
The application period closed earlier this month, and at the Affordable Housing Advisory Board's meeting in October, the applicants will be able to make their pitches.
Each fall, AHAB ...
