It’s not every day that you encounter a community fixture that’s been around for 160 years and counting — but then again, not every congregation is quite like Ninth Street Missionary Baptist Church. First established in 1863, the church is celebrating its milestone 160th anniversary ...
Des Moines, Iowa — The top-seeded Kansas men's basketball team will be without head coach Bill Self for a fifth consecutive game when it takes on No. 8 seed Arkansas in today's second round. KU officially ruled Self out for the contest just after 10 a.m. on Saturday. Assistant coach ...
Lawrence's reigning Boys and Girls Club Youth of the Year is set to compete for the statewide honor Monday night in Topeka. In late January, Lawrence High School sophomore Arabella Gipp was named the Lawrence club's Youth of the Year for the second year running, and now she'll again represent ...
A leader of a downtown program in Washington state will become the new executive director of Downtown Lawrence Inc. Andrew Holt, the former director of the Downtown Association of Yakima, Washington, will begin April 10 as the next leader of Lawrence’s nonprofit downtown association. “He ...
Massachusetts Street turned green on Friday for the annual Lawrence St. Patrick's Day Parade and the Irish Mile race. This year’s parade was a benefit for the Cantemos Youth Chorale, O’Connell Children’s Shelter and Sunrise Project. Organizers of the Lawrence St. Patrick’s Day Parade ...
Revisions to the county’s rules for wind energy projects have spurred hours of comments at public meetings, hundreds of recommendations for changes and a ream of public petitions, and the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission could soon give the public even more chances to weigh ...