He went ax-throwing and learned some homestyle cooking, got to meet the governor and a slobbery family dog, all in one whirlwind week in Kansas.
But one of the best memories of the trip for Yoshifumi Ishikawa is among the very first:
“I went to the Freddy’s burgers,” he said.
That’s right, it was his host family taking him to Freddy’s Frozen Custard. His host mom, Sandy Warner, says it was love at ...
At Tuesday’s Lawrence Opera Theatre rehearsal, Colin Bradt belts it out like only a classically trained tenor can.
“Shoot for the moon, and we’ll go so far!”
The show, “Brewed Ambition,” is about a coffee shop busboy who aspires to be the cafe’s top dog, but the lyrics seem just as fitting for the local opera company itself, which is one of two contenders for a nationwide performing arts ...
Riders generally “feel safe in most places” on Lawrence Transit's bus routes, a new survey shows, “except for one” — the stop across from the Lawrence Public Library on Vermont Street.
That's from a report the City of Lawrence shared this month on the transit survey, which got 222 responses, of which about 85% were from people who ride the bus at least a few times a month. Many told the transit system ...
It must have been a strange sight for the birds, frogs and fish at Prairie Park — this raftlike plastic object that appeared in the center of Mary's Lake earlier this year.
But a few months later, many of them think it looks like home.
This structure is an artificial floating wetland island, and it's something that Prairie Park Nature Center has been working on for a while. It's funded by a grant from the ...
With the green light from the Lawrence City Commission, the Lawrence Public Library's effort to put a pavilion and performance space on its lawn should soon be underway.
On Tuesday, the commission approved a minor change to its lease agreement with the library that will let the library erect the permanent structure on its lawn. The commission had some minor questions about responsibilities for maintenance work; ...
When Lawrence’s new strategic plan is crafted in the coming months, the Environmental Sustainability Advisory Board wants to make sure its vision is a green one.
The board met on Thursday night to further discuss what environmental policies and projects it should recommend to the City Commission, and its members said that while they should be coming up with policy recommendations in the near term, they also ...
