Gayla Kelly thinks her son came to Lawrence in his final days because it was a place where he had been happy. “He said once that Lawrence was where he began his adult life” — he excitedly came to KU in 2012 to study music education — “so I believe that a part of him felt this was the ...
About half of the 50 Pallet shelters at the Lawrence Community Shelter's village for people experiencing homelessness now have residents, and the shelter's leader is optimistic about how it's been going so far. At Thursday’s LCS Board of Directors meeting, Executive Director James Chiselom ...
For the leader of the Ballard Center, the noise of kids playing in one of the North Lawrence nonprofit’s two outdoor playgrounds was a fitting backdrop to a groundbreaking ceremony for a new building addition on Thursday. The adults, meanwhile, were squeezed into the smaller of the two ...
FRIDAY • The Final Friday Art Walk includes these exhibits: “SPRUNG” group exhibition and spring cleaning sale, 6-9 p.m., SeedCo Studios, 840 Delaware St., No. 7. "Faces of the Flower Moon" with Steven Grounds, live paint and music, 5-9 p.m., Cider Gallery, 810 Pennsylvania ...
Douglas County leaders on Wednesday had a number of questions for the team behind a commercial-scale solar energy project proposed for 1,105 acres just north of Lawrence. During a work session ahead of Wednesday’s Douglas County Commission meeting, commissioners heard presentations from ...
By this time a month from now, LMH Health may have completed the hiring process for its next top financial official. At Wednesday’s LMH Health Board of Trustees meeting, LMH President and CEO Russ Johnson told the group that he expects a new CFO will be in place by the board’s April ...