CONSENT AGENDA: 1. APPROVE CITY COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES: a) Consider approving City Commission Meeting minutes of 12/3/19. 2. BOARD AND COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES: a) Receive LMH Health Board minutes from 10/16/19 and 11/20/19. 3. CLAIMS: a) Consider approving all claims. The list of ...
This year’s Holiday Extravaganza craft show will span three basketball courts at Sports Pavilion Lawrence. There will be 206 vendors, including local and regional artists selling their work. Plus, there will be a variety of items from pottery, photography, holiday decorations, jewelry, ...
The City of Lawrence is preparing to launch a new utility billing system and online platform. Most customers who pay their bills online or have their accounts set up to pay automatically will need to take certain steps in order to continue payments. Customers who pay their bill by mail and ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday and includes 163 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Come this spring, those who water their lawns or otherwise use larger than average amounts of water will have to pay 10% to 15% more for those extra gallons. The Lawrence City Commission finalized this week the long-discussed inclining block rate structure for residential water fees, which ...
New organizers for Lawrence’s Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade have taken the reins this year and will make sure it doesn’t disappear in the future. Marty Kennedy, a longtime organizer for the event, told the Journal-World Thursday that new members of the parade committee want to continue ...
Lawrence High School’s student newspaper has been nationally recognized once again. The National Scholastic Press Association last month awarded the newspaper, The Budget, with the Pacemaker Award, according to the organization’s website. The Pacemaker is considered to be the most ...
A national nonprofit dedicated to protecting freedom of speech at universities found that the University of Kansas has policies that threaten the First Amendment right. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) released a report on Wednesday in which it rated 471 private and ...
One of Lawrence’s oldest New York-style pizzerias is moving, but don’t worry, you won’t have to get on a new subway line to find it. Papa Keno’s Pizzeria has reached a deal to leave its longtime home on the southern end of downtown for a new location a few blocks north on Massachusetts ...
Carl Lejuez, interim provost at the University of Kansas and one of four finalists for the full-time position, is also a finalist for the provost position at the University at Buffalo in New York, Lejuez confirmed Thursday. Although information on the identities of the finalists and the time ...
TOPEKA — The top elections official resigned Thursday in Kansas' most populous county, which was plagued in two recent major elections by long delays in reporting results. Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab's office did not give a reason in announcing that Johnson County Election ...
Mable Durrant was a petite young woman, but that didn’t stop her from standing by the railroad tracks and holding out messages to enormous passing trains, doing her part for the war effort back in 1942. Mable, now 95, had just graduated from high school in Arkansas during the height of World ...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A Kansas City, Kan., police officer contends in a federal lawsuit that the Unified Government of Wyandotte County has not addressed rampant racism and sexism in the police department. In her lawsuit, Z’Iontae Womack, a black woman, joined the police force in July 2007. ...
If one could change one aspect of the state budget, what would that be? That’s the question moderator Tim Carpenter asked five panelists Wednesday afternoon at the Kansas Farmers Union Convention, hosted at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Lawrence. Carpenter, a reporter at the Topeka ...
Jessica Larsen could hardly believe it when she heard Lawrence Superintendent Anthony Lewis name her as a top teacher for the school district on Wednesday. “I’m stunned,” she told the students and faculty of Hillcrest Elementary School. “Thank you so much.” Larsen — an English as ...
The Douglas County Commission approved fixing real estate clerical errors during a brief meeting on Wednesday. The commission’s work items scheduled for the meeting were all approved in the meeting’s consent agenda. The consent agenda allows the commission to consider and approve several ...
One of the first actions by the new Lawrence City Commission was to take up a proposal to ban the sale of tobacco and vaping products to people under 21. The previous commission declined to consider a Tobacco 21 ordinance earlier this year, but two newcomers to the commission, Commissioner ...
Before she started directing “Matilda” for Theatre Lawrence, Widge Yager did her homework on the man behind the musical. Roald Dahl, the beloved British author of the 1988 book on which the hit musical is based, had a particular worry as he was writing the story about his child genius: ...
Story updated at 8:01 p.m. Wednesday: TOPEKA — Authorities plan to investigate whether a freshman Kansas congressman broke state laws by listing a UPS Inc. store as his address on a voter registration form and for obtaining a mail-in ballot in a November election. The questions about Rep. ...
Right out of college, a medical emergency landed Janice Early in Lawrence Memorial Hospital for three weeks, including a stay over Christmas. The experience and care she received stuck with her. Years later, when she was working in Kansas City and saw an advertisement for LMH’s director of ...
