Approximately 100 people gathered in downtown Lawrence Tuesday afternoon to protest the Trump administration and actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The protestors gathered at the four corners of Ninth and Massachusetts Street around 3 p.m. Tuesday afternoon. Several in the ...
Lawrence school board members at their meeting on Monday approved a construction bid for updates to the district’s middle school theaters. The bid came from BHS Construction Inc. in the amount of $522,100 along with a 10% contingency not to exceed $52,210. The updates are a result of ...
In a lawsuit filed over the school district’s use of the monitoring software Gaggle, students are seeking a court ruling for the district to respond to open-records requests about the new ManagedMethods software. The plaintiffs alleged that the Lawrence school district failed to timely and ...
A Lawrence Virtual School student has won the Douglas County Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge for the second year in a row. The Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge is an annual competition for students in grades 6-12 in Douglas County where students pitch business ideas, including a written plan, ...
Lawrence school board members will consider a construction bid for a remodeling project for Free State High School’s outdoor athletic field press box on Monday. Board members will consider the bid from Mammoth Sports Construction LLC in the amount of $390,500 with a 10% contingency fund up ...
The Douglas County Spelling Bee always comes down to letters, but you couldn’t be blamed for taking note of a certain number when it appeared at Saturday’s event. Maci Perrins entered the lobby of Billy Mills Middle School on Saturday morning to check in for the event that features the ...