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 ...
Story updated at 4:18 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13:
City leaders next week will be asked to approve an airport layout drawing that must be submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration as a condition of receiving future federal funding.
At its meeting on Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will vote on the layout, which was prepared as part of the city’s Airport Master Plan process. The master plan update has ...
Before sharpening its goals for the future, the North Lawrence study task force on Wednesday night had some questions about the past.
Some of the members, who were tasked with coming up with a vision statement for the study, were wondering what made it unique among all the other studies and plans the city and the county had done. Some didn’t want to waste time duplicating older work.
And as for North ...
What does a leader in the local music scene do? Nick Carswell has been doing it for more than a decade, and his answer is: Whatever the musicians need him to do.
Carswell, who founded the Lawrence Music Alliance in 2023, has actually been helping musicians since around 2009, when he was living in Ireland. “I discovered artists whose music I was just very excited about,” he told the Journal-World, “and I ...
A publicly traded company that specializes in “smart home” technology is no longer eyeing the former Journal-World printing facility on Massachusetts Street for its new location, and it will be requesting development incentives for a site on Vermont Street instead.
The company is Alarm.com, and it was planning to use part of the former printing plant at 630 Massachusetts St. as a new office for about 70 ...
City leaders took a step forward Tuesday on an incentive package for an affordable housing project that would create 121 units of affordable housing in western Lawrence.
At its regular meeting, the Lawrence City Commission voted 3-1, with Vice Mayor Mike Courtney opposed and commissioner Mike Dever absent, to approve a resolution of intent to issue two incentives for the Floret Hill development at the southeast ...
