Marriages David Hollingsworth, 37, Lawrence, and Rachel Brooke Carter, 33, Lawrence. Theodore Bratton, 51, Lawrence, and Kristina Mead, 47, Lawrence. Caden Dale Locke, 27, Blanchard, Okla., and Katherine Elizabeth Davis, 24, Lawrence. Dennis Joseph Supancic, 39, Lawrence, and Alison Kay ...
Seven Eudora High School students installed a fence Friday along the property line of a newly constructed house in Eudora’s Shadow Ridge subdivision, talking about the task at hand above the noise of earth-moving equipment across the street. The seven students are enrolled in this year’s ...
In just his first three months on the job at Luckyberry, Steven Wood said he’s had the two creations he made from scratch land on the restaurant’s menu. Now he’s working on what he hopes will be his third. He said it’s an opportunity he’s been dreaming of since he was in middle ...
LMH Health’s annual Community Health Fair is set for Saturday, Sept. 21, at the hospital campus at 330 Arkansas St. The Kids Fun and Safety Zone returns this year from 8 to 10 a.m. in the parking lot at the southwest corner of Third and Arkansas streets. In the zone, participants can tour ...
In Douglas County, suicide rates have increased 82% during the past 20 years, according to a statistic from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that tells a grim story. Just in 2017, 17 Douglas County residents died by suicide, affecting the lives of thousands of friends and family ...
Alaska is a big place, and the home of many different Inuit and Indian nations, but there are three things that unify the diverse peoples, said Susan Hawkins, a Haskell Indian Nations University junior. “I would say our food, songs and dances,” she said. Unifying the Haskell students ...
Story updated at 1:50 p.m. Friday A Kansas City, Mo.-based company wants to bring 80 jobs to Lawrence and build a new manufacturing plant at Lawrence VenturePark. U.S. Engineering Metalworks has filed plans with the city to build a 100,000-square-foot manufacturing facility on an ...
Native American artisans from around the country will converge on Lawrence this weekend for the 31st Haskell Indian Art Market. Stephanie Fernando, coordinator of the two-day event, said 135 booths will be set up outdoors on the grounds of Haskell Indian Nations University. Some of the artists ...
Exhibitors are down to the wire creating items to sell at this weekend's 40th Annual Fall Arts & Crafts Festival. On Tuesday, Christy Minton was putting the finishing touches on the multimaterial collages she fashions in her downtown Lawrence apartment. In North Lawrence, Guy Young was ...
Investigators have determined that a lightning strike was the cause of the fire that destroyed the Clinton Presbyterian Church Friday morning. “It was natural causes,” said Jill Bronaugh, a spokeswoman at the Office of the State Fire Marshal in Topeka. The estimated damage to the ...
Updated at 7:43 p.m. Tuesday It has been a record-breaking summer at Clinton Lake, where the water level surpassed a high set 24 years ago. On Tuesday the lake was at 895 feet above sea level, which was 19.5 feet above its norm of 875.5 feet. That brings the lake down 2 feet below the record ...
Over the years, genealogical research has advanced from tracking down records in libraries and government files to dropping in on ancestral homes via Google Earth — and one local couple have kept up with the technology in hopes of helping people find their family roots. The couple, Richard ...
When Matthew Liu, a Lawrence pianist, competed in the Midwest Chamber Ensemble’s youth concerto competition in the spring, he said he wasn’t nervous because he had performed in other competitions several times before. However, this time was different. He was an 11-year-old competing with ...
It may seem early to be thinking of the winter holiday season, but not for those wanting a role in the Lawrence Arts Center’s production of “The Nutcracker, A Kansas Ballet." The production is influenced by the original 1816 "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" by Prussian author E.T.A. ...
Marriages Matthew Craig Unruh, 40, Lawrence, and Brooke Michelle Burgett, 35, Lawrence. Mike Jason Hughes, 41, Lawrence, and Kristy Sue Dalaba, 32, Lawrence. Joshua Earl Lauer, 34, Lawrence, and Ashley Jo Guarino, 35, Lawrence. Andrew Talbert, 28, Olathe, and Chloe Portela, 26, ...
There is agreement among Baldwin City Council members that the city needs to raise water rates, but how much is a matter of debate. In August, the City Council discussed the need to pass on to water customers any cost increases the city of Lawrence charges Baldwin City for water and to adjust ...
For the past six years, the hands on the centuries-old clock hanging on the wall in the chapel of Warren-McElwain Mortuary haven't moved. The clock was built in France and predates the American Revolution, said Jim Larkin, who brought it with him from California when he bought the Lawrence ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention state that almost 36% of all U.S. opioid overdose deaths involve a prescription opioid. From 1999 to 2017, more than 200,000 people died from prescription opioid overdoses. 17,000 of those deaths occurred in 2017. Dr. Patrick Harper, a physician ...
On sunny days, Baldwin City will soon be using electricity generated from a solar panel array in its public works yard. The solar power array, which Westar Energy built on a gently sloping southward hill near the city’s electrical power generating plant, is set to come online within days, ...
Flooding along the Wakarusa River near Lawrence is expected to get more severe through afternoon Friday before falling in the evening, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. A flood warning was issued for the river after storms moved through the area early Friday morning. The ...