More biking, more safety features and less drag racing: That’s what city staff is hoping for in a project later this year that will shrink Massachusetts Street from four lanes to three.
The $6.6 million construction project, which is still in the design phase, is slated to start in August and will reconfigure Massachusetts from 14th Street to 23rd Street. Mass. is currently two lanes in each direction, but ...
As a bill targeting illicit e-cigarettes makes its way through the Kansas Legislature, a health official in Lawrence says the problem of unauthorized vape products is real, and that underage buyers here might have access to them.
The bill is Senate Bill 355, and it passed the Kansas Senate and was sent to the House last week. As Kansas Reflector reported, it would impose the same licensing and advertising ...
City leaders on Tuesday gave final approval to an incentives package for the redevelopment of the historic Reuter Organ building in downtown Lawrence – a project the developer said was “too big” to do without help.
The Lawrence City Commission voted 4-1 on Tuesday, with Vice Mayor Mike Courtney opposed, to approve the incentives for the Reuter Organ property at 612 New Hampshire St., and the adjacent ...
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 ...
