Lawrence’s largest health care organization soon will start playing a bigger role in providing medical services in Emporia. LMH Health announced on Wednesday that it is joining forces with the University of Kansas Health System to serve as new medical partners with the nonprofit Newman ...
With concerns rising about a tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health has indicated that the outbreak has not extended to Douglas County. No active cases have been reported in the Lawrence area, the health department said in a news release Wednesday, ...
New York — The trouble started every day at around 3 p.m., after Cathy Higgins had spent five or six hours staring at an array of computer screens at her desk. Her university job overseeing research projects involved peering closely at numbers and details on contracts, applications and ...
Alex Gleason can’t pinpoint the moment she injured her thumb, but she knew something wasn’t quite right. The Olathe North junior walked off the mat at a meet for her summer wrestling club in June and realized it really hurt. “It was really uncomfortable and I went to the trainer. They ...
Stan Hernly knows the possibilities of old homes. After all, he started his Lawrence architecture practice in an old home along Tennessee Street. It was more than 35 years ago that he founded his architecture practice, Hernly Associates, in that 1907 house, and since then the firm has grown ...
As the saying goes, the best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago; the second-best time is today. This is true even in the fall. In regions with four seasons, many tree species have better success rates when transplanted in the fall or winter rather than spring. Plant trees now, or spend ...
Sweet corn and popcorn are popular vegetable garden crops with a rich history of cultivation in North America. They are closely related to each other, to flint corn and flower corn, to the starchy field corn produced in large fields across the country, and to maize produced by Native Americans ...
What is the best way to water an indoor plant? Like so many things in gardening, the answer depends on a variety of factors. The most common methods are top watering, bottom watering and immersion watering. They all have pros and cons, but each one has a place in indoor plant care. Top ...
When COVID scrambled the economy in March of 2020, one profession in particular was flipped upside down: Those who made a living feeding others in restaurants now needed help to feed their families and pay their bills after the industry practically shut down overnight. Here in Lawrence, it was ...
It’s the dog days of summer at Jefferson’s — hot dogs, that is. Jefferson’s Restaurants are celebrating the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics with a special promotion today, July 26, offering free hot dogs to any guest who brings in an award — whether it’s a ...
Italian porchetta is a special dish of spit-roasted pork flavored with herbs, fennel and garlic. It's delicious, but much too involved for a weeknight dinner. To give pork chops the same flavor profile with less work, we narrowed the ingredients to those best suited for searing on the ...
Many recipes for Indian curries such as tikka masala and butter chicken call for copious amounts of butter, yogurt and cream to give them a rich, satisfying texture. For a lighter vegetarian interpretation of the takeout classic, meaty cremini mushrooms stand in for chicken and pureed cashews ...
When Lauren Mayberry hits the stage in Lawrence on Sunday, it will be a familiar feeling, but still a change from the last time she was here. When Mayberry performed here in 2013, she was touring with the band CHVRCHES — an acclaimed electro-pop band with over 2.6 million monthly listeners ...
Friday, Jan. 31 • Final Friday Art Walk includes: Adult Improv Performance Troupe, 7:30 p.m., Black Box Theater, Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. $10 suggested donation. The Platter Project exhibit and silent auction; current exhibits on glass art, drawings, mixed media ...
Lawrence school district students will put their talents on display this weekend at the Lied Center. The ninth annual Ovation! talent show, set for 7 p.m. Sunday, will showcase a variety of students performers, including instrumentalists, dancers, aerialists, vocalists and more. Some of the ...
Friday, Jan. 24 • Lawrence Restaurant Week continues through this weekend. See LawrenceRestaurantWeek.org for special menus. • “Memory Matters: Engaging Someone with Dementia,” 1:30-3 p.m., Lawrence Public Library Auditorium, 707 Vermont St. Registration required; see lplks.org. • ...
Most of the rural schools in Douglas County are identified by a name as well as a number. An exception to this norm is “No. 6.” Goldie Piper Daniels, in her 1974 history of the educational buildings in our county, notes that the name “Crutchfield” was found attached to No. 6 on an ...
On the east side of Iowa Street, between 19th and 23rd streets, stands the United States Army Reserve Training Center, which bears the name of Samuel J. Churchill. Churchill is one of two Medal of Honor recipients to have been Lawrence residents and to be buried here. Churchill was ...
On the east side of the 700 block of Vermont Street, you can see a small bronze plaque on a brick building at about eye level. It tells of a First Methodist Church that once stood there, which was built in 1857 and was used as morgue following Quantrill’s Raid on Aug. 21, 1863. More than ...
The electric streetcars in Lawrence may have fallen out of favor, but at least one new neighborhood they made possible is still here. Breezedale — Lawrence’s first identifiable suburban neighborhood — is at the southern end of Massachusetts Street. It was developed by Charles E. Sutton, ...
