As the City of Lawrence prepares to start its next strategic plan, a survey is showing that residents are feeling good about arts and culture, but not so good about the economy, city leaders heard on Tuesday.
At their weekly meeting, city commissioners heard the results of the National Community Survey, also known as the Community Satisfaction Survey, which was completed by polling firm Polco. The survey ...
Sixty people from 23 states have applied to be Lawrence’s next city manager, and the Lawrence City Commission plans to start evaluating those applications as early as next week.
Lawrence is currently looking for a successor for City Manager Craig Owens, who announced last year that he would be stepping down this spring. At Tuesday’s City Commission meeting, Mayor Brad Finkeldei shared the stats about the ...
One of the many painstaking parts of the historic Douglas County Courthouse’s recent renovation was DOUGLAS COUNTY COURT HOUSE itself.
The decorative lettering near the courthouse’s front entrance was among the features of the more than 100-year-old building that were in bad shape, said Jay Zimmerschied, Douglas County’s director of capital projects, earlier this week. “There were chunks of letters ...
City leaders could soon take another step toward building a new fire station in the northwest corner of Lawrence.
On its meeting agenda for Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will get an update on the plans for the new Fire Station 6 and will consider starting the process of finding a construction manager for it.
Station 6 would be at 555 Stoneridge Drive, near the intersection of Sixth Street and the South ...
If it becomes law, a bill that lets voters block local governments’ property tax increases will probably do a lot of other things behind the scenes, too. And Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew is trying to figure out what.
It could throw a wrench into cities’ and counties’ planning. It could let a few dozen people in a rural township shoot down that township’s budget. And it could force election offices ...
This April, Lawrence’s Sexual Trauma and Abuse Care Center is planning a trivia night, an art auction and more to help fund its education and support programs – and it’s bringing back a downtown vigil and march where survivors can speak out.
STACC’s slate of programming for Sexual Assault Awareness Month kicks off in earnest next week, said Christina Gentry, the center’s director of community ...
