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 ...
City Commissioner Kristine Polian, who’s worked for two decades in municipal governments, knows “audit” isn’t a pleasant word to hear.
“Audit, and add ‘forensic’ to it, forensic audit, it’s a four-letter word for most people,” she told the Journal-World on Wednesday.
She’s calling her proposal for a forensic audit of 15 major city projects a “stewardship initiative” instead, and she ...
While their opinions differ on how Lawrence should choose its mayor, city commissioners think there should be much more discussion before they ask voters about it.
On Tuesday, commissioners discussed the idea of a future ballot question on whether Lawrence residents should directly elect the mayor. Under the current system, voters don't choose the mayor directly; instead, the five-member City Commission chooses ...
On a night full of facts and figures about the future of affordable housing in Lawrence, Mayor Brad Finkeldei mentioned a specific one leaders will soon be thinking about: $4 million.
That’s how much assistance the University of Kansas has pledged to the city for future affordable housing projects. And two things the commission discussed on Tuesday night – a new incentive policy and a housing study – ...
