Since moving to Lawrence around three years ago, Shylo Evans said he was missing a pastime from his home state of South Dakota — darts. Evans said the sport is huge in the state, with “hundreds and hundreds” of players participating in leagues during the frigid winters there. To get his ...
As construction is underway on a pair of housing developments in Eudora, its city manager is optimistic more housing development is on the way for the community just east of Lawrence. In April, community leaders and development partners celebrated an official groundbreaking for the 10 Union ...
Kansas Lt. Gov. David Toland was in Lawrence Friday to celebrate the official opening of a multimillion dollar affordable housing project in downtown, but also urged that the celebration should only last a short time. Community members need to get busy building the next big project, because ...
When he and his wife bought their house 30 years ago, Nick Schmeidler said there was a “craftsman vibe” to the house. His “full-time hobby” of creating folk art sculptures made of salvaged parts certainly adds to that vibe. Although the sculptures in his front yard are always on ...
On an April afternoon in Lawrence, Kansas, where abolitionists and pro-slavery forces clashed over a century and a half earlier, Billy Mills Middle School teacher Tom Barker introduced students to a central figure in that bloody era of local history. “John Brown. There’s a lot of stuff ...
Updated at 4:55 p.m. Tuesday, April 28 A transgender Lawrence woman on Friday filed a lawsuit against the state of Kansas after it invalidated her driver's license under a state law known as SB 244. The woman, Jamie Michelle Miller, born in 1971, underwent irreversible genital reassignment ...