In this place north of North Lawrence, the farmers count acres, the fellows at the grain elevator count bushels, and next to no one counts houses. Why would they in this land dominated by flat, black, tilled fields? Everybody from the pickup driver on the gravel road to the crows overhead ...
Three Lawrence city commissioners had a paper bag with a brick and a note waiting for them when they got home from the City Commission meeting on Tuesday, according to Lawrence police. Vice Mayor Mike Dever and Commissioners Brad Finkeldei and Lisa Larsen each received the items on the porches ...
A community survey is now available to help the City of Lawrence gather feedback on how the city should preserve and maintain its brick streets and sidewalks. A city spokesperson shared the survey with the Journal-World on Thursday. It was made available following an open house last week that ...
Updated at 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, April 3, 2024 Lawrence’s “most infamous” commenter has failed to demonstrate that the City Commission’s rules about comments at public meetings are unconstitutionally vague or that the city engaged in unlawful viewpoint and content discrimination against ...
Lawrence leaders on Tuesday signed off on about $3 million in spending for the first of two planned phases to construct the city’s new field operations campus, and also expressed their support for an accelerated project timeline that would move its completion up by nine months. At ...
The 28-ton red quartzite boulder sacred to the Kaw Nation that sat in Lawrence for nearly a century as a monument to white settlers has finally been installed at its new home in Council Grove. On Tuesday, Jay Johnson — professor of geography and atmospheric science and director of the ...