The best bet for a rock concert to break out at my church is if someone slips the organist a Red Bull in her Sunday morning coffee. But there is a church in central Lawrence that is now actively recruiting rock concerts and a whole lot else as it tries to become a significant concert and events ...
It has been almost 13 years since downtown Lawrence has had a true drug store, but it looks like that wait soon will be over. The owner of Lawrence-based Sigler Pharmacy has confirmed to me that he’s completed a deal to purchase the former Capitol Federal branch bank building at 11th and ...
No, south Iowa Street won’t soon have a mall, but it soon will have mall pizza. Sbarro — the New York-style pizza chain that is found in many a mall food court — is coming to 25th and Iowa streets next month. For good measure, a Burger King also is going in next door to Sbarro. Both ...
Fayetteville, Ark. — As about 130 leaders from Lawrence and Topeka embarked on a trip to Northwest Arkansas this week, a common goal was to find a couple of million-dollar ideas to bring back to their communities. In some ways, though, that is the equivalent of dime-store shopping here in ...
We are off to the Land of Walmart to learn. I’ll be honest. That phrase causes worry in my household because the lesson usually involves the upper boundaries of our credit limit. But this isn’t a household trip. It is a community trip, and we aren’t going to an actual Walmart. We are ...
When it comes to prices and retail sales, the start of 2022 has been anything but ordinary — unless you consider using a Brinks truck to transport your groceries home ordinary. With that said, Lawrence’s sales tax collections for the first four months of the year don’t look normal, but ...