It sometimes takes Hibiki Miyazaki most of a year to make a print, but it’s taken a fraction of that time for Lawrence to make its imprint on her.
Miyazaki is one of the Lawrence Arts Center’s two new artists in residence. She grew up in a small town of about 300 people in western Massachusetts, and just before coming here, she was based in Portland, Oregon.
“This is kind of like the sweet spot in the ...
Early in the 2027 budget process, Lawrence’s employee healthcare plan got a worrying diagnosis – the fund used to pay out benefits wasn't sustainable.
City commissioners have known that for a while; in the city manager’s recommended budget that was released earlier this summer, about half of the $15 million in new spending on compensation and benefits would go toward shoring up the healthcare fund.
But ...
At a brief meeting about Douglas County’s 2025 audit results on Wednesday, county leaders signaled that a review of some financial policies might be coming soon.
“Now that we’ve gotten two major projects for the year, budget and audit, out of the way, we can return our attention to policy,” said County Administrator Sarah Plinsky, in response to a question from County Commissioner Karen Willey about ...
As the deadlines approach for Lawrence’s 2027 budget process, some city commissioners are still intent on getting to a smaller property tax rate increase, or even keeping the rate flat.
What they’re still trying to figure out is which specific cuts will get them there.
The city manager’s recommended budget, which was presented to the commission earlier this summer, includes a nearly 2-mill property tax ...
One of the largest annexation requests in recent memory in Lawrence won approval from the City Commission on Tuesday night.
Commissioners voted 5-0 to approve the annexation request and an amendment to the comprehensive plan for land use for roughly 288 acres southwest of Sixth Street and K-10. They also voted to approve a series of rezonings for that land, but not all of those approvals were unanimous. ...
There’s a block party planned on Ninth Street later this month, as the stormwater construction winds down and more of the street opens back up.
But for Rob Coleman, there’s not much left to celebrate.
City staff came to his restaurant, Fork & Tumbler, last October, talked him and other local business owners through what was going to happen and why. They said they needed to close down the street to ...
