When the Lawrence Public Library installs its new outdoor stage next year, Brad Allen wants it to be a place for creativity – not a place for complications. “The minute you need a sound technician to do storytime, it complicates storytime,” said Allen, the library’s executive director ...
Collision Leaders of Lawrence donated over $1,000 worth of school supplies to Sunflower Elementary School. Several employees from the auto body and repair shop stopped by Sunflower Elementary on Wednesday afternoon to donate boxes of paper as well as backpacks with pencils, notebooks, ...
A famed team of horses – the Budweiser Clydesdales – are returning to Lawrence next week for two occasions. The Budweiser Clydesdales are a famous team of large Clydesdale horses used in promotional appearances and advertising for Budweiser. The horses typically travel as a hitch, or ...
The Lawrence Journal-World is moving delivery of its newspaper to the U.S. Postal Service and will replace its Sunday print edition with a new Weekend Edition that publishes on Saturdays. Postal delivery will begin on Tuesday, Sept. 8 and the new Weekend Edition will debut on Saturday, Sept. ...
A Douglas County judge has ruled that planning commissioners produce a feasible set of documents within a month in the ongoing legal dispute over a proposed 159-megawatt solar farm in northern Douglas County. On Tuesday, Judge James McCabria ruled that Lawrence-Douglas County Planning ...
Lawrence – along with other cities in the area – is currently experiencing a multi-day, late-summer heat wave with the heat index reaching 105 degrees Fahrenheit most days. Wednesday will bring sunny and hot weather conditions, with the high near 97 degrees Fahrenheit and the low around ...