Voters in the Perry-Lecompton school district will decide in November whether to create a joint recreation system funded by a one-mill property tax rate. In the upcoming general election, a ballot question will ask voters to approve the creation of a joint recreation system involving the ...
This year's Phoenix Award honorees have been selected, and you may have experienced their work on the radio, or in a middle school auditorium, or at the airport, or even on the label of a beer bottle. On Wednesday night, the Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission chose the six winners for the ...
The high school sports season is still young but Baldwin High already is in the middle of a high-stakes competition: The school is competing for $1 million of free money. The school’s athletic director, Dayton Valentine, entered the school into T-Mobile’s Friday Night 5G Lights ...
A student-centered coffee shop will be opening at Community Connections at Pinckney next week. The coffee shop, known as “Empowering Brew,” will hold a ribbon cutting ceremony on Thursday, Oct. 22, at Community Connections at Pinckney, 810 West Sixth St., with a tentative time of 10 a.m. ...
On Thursday, his last day at Free State High School, Richard has just gotten out of woodworking class. How strange is that – woodworking, cooking and acting classes in a public school? It’s quite strange indeed for Richard and a dozen other students from Lawrence’s sister city of ...
Lawrence school district officials told the school board Monday that the district has identified $73.9 million in deferred maintenance and facilities needs but lacks enough current funding to address them all. “The issue is really the longer you delay repairing, the more costly it will be ...