When the Lawrence Public Library installs its new outdoor stage next year, Brad Allen wants it to be a place for creativity – not a place for complications.
“The minute you need a sound technician to do storytime, it complicates storytime,” said Allen, the library’s executive director – and storytime is far from the only thing it will be hosting. That’s why one of his goals is to make the stage ...
“City Hall is on fire,” Amber Sellers told her fellow city commissioners on Tuesday night. There are three options for the 2027 budget, and you can only grab one.
One of them has a roughly 2-mill property tax rate increase and funds a fire and medical staffing expansion and employee raises that city staff proposed earlier this year. The other two have a 1.5-mill hike and lower raises, and a 1-mill hike and ...
Lawrence will be raising stormwater rates by 7.5% in each of the next three years, similar to what it’s already doing with water and sewer rates.
At its meeting Tuesday night, the City Commission unanimously approved the three year-over-year rate increases for 2027, 2028 and 2029. Assistant director of Municipal Services and Operations Trevor Flynn said that this would be the first time the city had done a ...
Meet Valvin Muscat – sweet, flowery, “insane,” a bit of a heartbreaker, “kind of a pain in the kazoo,” if you ask Michelle Meyer.
“But boy, do they taste good,” she says after she cuts a cluster of the golden-green grapes off the vine at Holy-Field Vineyard and Winery in Basehor and pops one in her mouth. “They make incredible wine.”
Even if you’ve tasted a lot of wine, you might not have ...
Lawrence's 2027 budget process is nearing the finish line, and on Tuesday the City Commission will hold its public hearings on the budget and consider an increase in stormwater rates for 2027, 2028 and 2029.
As the Journal-World has reported, the city manager's proposed budget is just over $415 million and would feature a nearly 2-mill property tax rate increase. City leaders have said the increase is necessary ...
What to do about idling cars that aren’t going anywhere? And, what to do about policy ideas that aren’t going anywhere?
These were two of the big questions that Lawrence’s Environmental Sustainability Advisory Board faced on Thursday night, as it discussed how the city should measure its progress toward its environmental goals – and whether the board itself was making progress quickly enough.
The ...
