A layout drawing for the Lawrence airport that’s required by the Federal Aviation Administration got the approval of the Lawrence City Commission on Tuesday night. Commissioners voted 4-0 at their meeting to approve the drawing, which shows a variety of structures and improvements at Lawrence Regional Airport north of Lawrence. They also voted 5-0 to create two new subcommittees on the Aviation Advisory ...
Questions remain on whether Lawrence will hit its fiscal goal for the first year of rec center fees. But there’s no question that seniors will play a big role in getting it there. This week, city leaders got an update on the first month of fees from interim Parks, Recreation and Culture director Lindsay Hart, and she said seniors were “our biggest surprise” so far. People over 60 make up more than 60% of ...
Most days, Stacy Tucker feels like she has "bricks on my shoulders." But you wouldn't know it watching her dance down the red carpet at River City Church on Friday night. The "bricks," Tucker said, are the feeling she and other people with special needs have when the world doesn't understand them, ignores them or worse. However, at Night to Shine, a giant prom-style party that the church hosts each year, "we ...
Story updated at 4:18 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13: City leaders next week will be asked to approve an airport layout drawing that must be submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration as a condition of receiving future federal funding. At its meeting on Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will vote on the layout, which was prepared as part of the city’s Airport Master Plan process. The master plan update has ...
Before sharpening its goals for the future, the North Lawrence study task force on Wednesday night had some questions about the past. Some of the members, who were tasked with coming up with a vision statement for the study, were wondering what made it unique among all the other studies and plans the city and the county had done. Some didn’t want to waste time duplicating older work. And as for North ...
What does a leader in the local music scene do? Nick Carswell has been doing it for more than a decade, and his answer is: Whatever the musicians need him to do. Carswell, who founded the Lawrence Music Alliance in 2023, has actually been helping musicians since around 2009, when he was living in Ireland. “I discovered artists whose music I was just very excited about,” he told the Journal-World, “and I ...