On Tuesday, Lawrence city commissioners will consider two big items related to stormwater improvements near downtown: one involving the calendar, and another involving a crack.
The one involving the calendar is a recommendation from city staff about the Ninth Street reconstruction project’s timeline. Staff is going to recommend a schedule that would not reopen the street partway through its reconstruction for ...
City commissioners will take a first step toward replacing outgoing City Manager Craig Owens when they receive three proposals from executive search firms at their meeting next week.
Owens announced last month that he would be leaving his role in May 2026, and city staff has received proposals from three search firms to look for his replacement: Strategic Government Resources, MGT and CPS HR Consulting.
The ...
It was called a debate, but there were no panelists or winners or losers – just a big circle of citizens at the school district offices, taking turns with the mic and answering this question:
Is Lawrence doing enough to be a place where there is housing for all?
For Trina Tinsley, the answer was personal: “For my family, they have been.”
Tinsley was the first speaker to give her view at Thursday’s ...
Even if your family watches the Bing Crosby classic “White Christmas” every year, the stage version, opening Friday at Theatre Lawrence, might still have something new for you to unwrap.
One of its gifts to director Joshua Shockey was a classic song he’d never heard before – one from the late ‘40s or early ‘50s called “Falling Out of Love Can Be Fun.”
“It’s almost like an Andrews ...
You can’t miss the chimney at the corner of 15th and Learnard. For almost 100 years, it’s stuck out from what would become the Barker Neighborhood.
“It was there before that part of Lawrence was part of the city,” former planning commissioner Jim Carpenter told the Journal-World on Wednesday. Back when it was built in 1926, it was used to heat the greenhouses on the property, but now, he said, “it ...
“You can tell I’m excited about what next year brings,” Brad Finkeldei said Tuesday as he began his second stint as Lawrence’s mayor.
How could you tell? He’d just gone through a whole list of upcoming projects he’s looking forward to – from KU’s Gateway development to the Costco in west Lawrence to possible housing developments west of K-10.
“It’s going to be a great year,” he said, and ...
