It takes a ton of protein and carbs to feed a flock of Jayhawk football players – certainly more than Shawarma Press co-owner Atrooba Hashim had imagined.
Recently, her restaurant got an order from the team for 115 lunch boxes. “In my mind, 115 shawarmas doesn’t seem that much. And on top of that, 115 lunch boxes doesn’t seem that much,” she said.
“Until we started packing them. And I was like, ...
When the University of Kansas' football season kicks off against Long Island at 7 p.m. Friday, fans might have to find new places to park or new ways to get to and from the stadium.
That's because KU has changed its game-day parking arrangements to accommodate the ongoing construction at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, and because Lawrence Transit is no longer offering a dedicated shuttle between the ...
When the Lawrence Public Library installs its new outdoor stage next year, Brad Allen wants it to be a place for creativity – not a place for complications.
“The minute you need a sound technician to do storytime, it complicates storytime,” said Allen, the library’s executive director – and storytime is far from the only thing it will be hosting. That’s why one of his goals is to make the stage ...
“City Hall is on fire,” Amber Sellers told her fellow city commissioners on Tuesday night. There are three options for the 2027 budget, and you can only grab one.
One of them has a roughly 2-mill property tax rate increase and funds a fire and medical staffing expansion and employee raises that city staff proposed earlier this year. The other two have a 1.5-mill hike and lower raises, and a 1-mill hike and ...
Lawrence will be raising stormwater rates by 7.5% in each of the next three years, similar to what it’s already doing with water and sewer rates.
At its meeting Tuesday night, the City Commission unanimously approved the three year-over-year rate increases for 2027, 2028 and 2029. Assistant director of Municipal Services and Operations Trevor Flynn said that this would be the first time the city had done a ...
Meet Valvin Muscat – sweet, flowery, “insane,” a bit of a heartbreaker, “kind of a pain in the kazoo,” if you ask Michelle Meyer.
“But boy, do they taste good,” she says after she cuts a cluster of the golden-green grapes off the vine at Holy-Field Vineyard and Winery in Basehor and pops one in her mouth. “They make incredible wine.”
Even if you’ve tasted a lot of wine, you might not have ...
