While talking about Lawrence’s small businesses this past week, Susie Carson made it clear that she thinks the city is special. “In Lawrence, you guys’ culture –” she said, and then rephrased it: “Our culture! I’m excited to say that.” “Just the identity and the culture of the small businesses, I think it’s one of the things that makes Lawrence, just, what it is,” she went on. “Just ...
Two new commissioners will take their seats and a new mayor and vice mayor will be chosen at the Lawrence City Commission's meeting on Tuesday. The incoming city commissioners are Mike Courtney and Kristine Polian, the top two finishers in the November general election. They will be replacing outgoing commissioners Bart Littlejohn, who finished fourth in the election, and Lisa Larsen, who did not seek ...
The inaugural Ugly Sweater Fun Run in Baldwin City is a chance to show off your most audacious holiday attire, but it’s also Baldwin City’s chance to show off a title it wears proudly: Quilt Capital of Kansas. The southern Douglas County community has had that designation since 2019, when the Kansas Senate actually approved a resolution on it. But many people don’t know about that, said Jeannette ...
If the holiday stress is getting to you, you might take a cue from Teacup the opossum, Prairie Park Nature Center’s mellow marsupial. During the December holidays and around Valentine’s Day, she travels around town with the Nature Center’s staff for the Opossum Grams program, which is taking orders now for the holiday season. She delivers greetings to families and businesses, staying cool and collected ...
A crew of teen gardeners in Lawrence have just wrapped up a growing season full of hard work – a season their boss told them might be one of the most important they’ve ever had. University of Kansas student Elinor Russo and Free State High School students Annah Steele, Felix Mueller, Anders Benson and Ellen Hanrath have been working at Growing Food Growing Health, a youth project that tends gardens at West ...
When the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka opens its new galleries on Saturday, Lawrence stone carver Karl Ramberg is excited to see some of his own history on display – well-worn mallets used by him and two of his mentors. “I donated the one that my teacher, Elden Tefft, gave me, but also the one that his teacher, Bernard ‘Poco’ Frazier, Frazier’s family had given me,” he said of his recent ...