As Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical prepares to add a new station in northwest Lawrence, Station 6, the department's stats show that its two existing stations on the west side are responding to fewer calls than some stations farther east.
But that may not be an issue for Station 6, because LDCFM has said that what matters, and what Station 6 is trying to improve, is where the department can get to in four ...
“Where’s my pencil?” says Deb Madden at Tuesday’s rehearsal for Vintage Players, Theatre Lawrence’s senior theater program. She’s just come into the auditorium, running late and a little frazzled. “Do you have a pencil?”
Director Bruce Douglas doesn’t have one. Nobody in the audience does. Oh, but wait – they’re in her hair! She pulls one out and offers it to him. “Would you like a ...
You yourself could be the canvas for the artwork that Tim Hossler and Lizzy Arnold are creating for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Hossler, a University of Kansas design professor, and Arnold, the graphic designer for the KU School of Architecture and Design, are among the artists being featured in the City of Lawrence's soccer-themed Unmistakable Public Art Exhibition this summer. But rather than sculpting or ...
In the Dole Institute of Politics’ collections are thousands of films and tapes from throughout Sen. Bob Dole’s career – records that, for all we know, might only have a couple of plays left in them.
They’re in all kinds of formats, said senior archivist Sarah Gard – from cassette tapes to 1-inch and 2-inch film, from VHS to professional standards like Betacam. And they’re from all throughout ...
There are successful parties at the Lawrence Public Library, like the one that raised more than $400,000 for an outdoor performance space and various other projects earlier this month.
And then there's "Deflategate."
That’s what Kathleen Morgan, director of the Lawrence Public Library's Friends & Foundation, calls one specific movie night gone wrong. It was an outdoor showing of "Jurassic Park" on a big ...
City leaders are hoping Lawrence will be chosen for a pilot project that uses a little-utilized state law to acquire and rehabilitate abandoned homes for affordable housing.
The project is by the nonprofit organization Neighborhood Legal Support of Kansas City, which put out a request for proposals for cities that want to be part of it. On Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted to let staff submit a ...
