You might guess that as a telecommunications CEO, Midco’s Pat McAdaragh is all about speed. But there’s something slow that he finds beautiful – the restored prairie in the yard of his Minnesota home. “It’s just been wonderful, almost spiritual to watch that thing change yearly,” ...
Douglas County commissioners said they would be interested in exploring changes to local fireworks sales dates to ensure the period includes a weekend – which vendors said could help boost sales. Currently, Douglas County’s regulations allow firework sales for just four days — from July ...
State lawmakers already have said they're fine with extending the amount of time that residents can buy fireworks for the Fourth of July holiday. Now, Douglas County commissioners will try to figure out whether they're fine with a longer selling season, too. Douglas County commissioners at ...
It was on Ninth Street in the 1990s, Michael Almon remembers, that a movement for bike safety began in Lawrence – and it began with a tragedy. Almon, leader of the Sustainability Action Network, recounted it on Monday morning: how, in 1998, Jon Hermes was riding his bicycle at Ninth and ...
A company proposing a data center campus in De Soto says it's "committing" to provide households with up to $1,000 annually in property and utility tax credits for 10 years. The total investment of $20 million from Digital Realty is to deliver economic relief, according to a press release ...
The locally filmed thriller "One Eye Open" will have multiple Lawrence showings beginning this week. The award-winning film, written and directed by Lawrence resident Michael Coffey, was released in select AMC theaters earlier this month and will play at Liberty Hall from Thursday until Nov. ...