With rising costs and a federal hiring freeze still in effect, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is cutting services, adding fees and eliminating the last free camping area at Clinton Lake this recreational season. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers manages the 7,000-acre Clinton Lake as well as ...
The City of Lawrence’s efforts to protect the environment have something in common with the environment itself: lots of parts that all depend on each other. There’s a clean energy ordinance that could change soon. There’s the city’s strategic plan, which will soon get an update. There ...
FRIDAY, MARCH 27 75th Anniversary Fee-Waived Pet Adoptions, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, noon-6 p.m., Lawrence Humane Society, 1805 E. 19th St. See lawrencehumane.org/adopt for more information. Final Friday Art Walk includes: • Celia Smith and Gil Ortiz, 5-9 p.m., Cider Gallery, 810 ...
In his decades of living in East Lawrence, Tony Peterson says, a lot has changed, but “the Yart Sale has always been one of the constants.” “I’m not even sure how long ago it started,” he says. It’s one of those ad-hoc, organic neighborhood things, part garage sale, part gallery, ...
A car went into the Kansas River just off the Eighth Street boat ramp on Wednesday after the driver took a wrong turn, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, and it's now been removed from the water. According to a social media post from the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, the ...
The Watkins Museum of History announced it will be hosting a traveling exhibition later this spring that features photography documenting sites along the Underground Railroad, with a supplemental exhibit detailing Kansas’s history with the network. The museum announced in a press release ...