While the five members of the Alferd Packer Memorial String Band were setting up for rehearsal Monday night, Gayle Sigurdson poked her head in the room to say they had been mentioned on National Public Radio. Monday was tax day, and Sigurdson, the wife of band member Steve Mason, heard that ...
Today, April 18 Red Dog Workout, 6 a.m., Community Building, 115 W. 11th St. Kaw Valley Bridge Club, lessons 8:30 a.m., mentor game 9:30 a.m., 1025 N. Third St., Suite 120. Drum Circle with Emily Bachert, 11:30 a.m.-noon, The Toy Store, 936 Massachusetts St. Kiwanis Club of Lawrence, ...
Douglas County Commissioner Patrick Kelly on Wednesday asked why, with all the social services and programs available in the area, the county hasn’t seen one like what Artists Helping the Homeless has to offer. Kar Woo, the nonprofit’s founder, said it was because the county needed an ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas Supreme Court has ruled that Gov. Laura Kelly cannot file a brief in support of a law that would add about $90 million annually to public school funding. The governor on Monday asked the court for permission to file the brief in support of a bill she signed April 5. The ...
The University of Kansas will spend $4.9 million this summer to make an “emergency repair” to one of the newest facilities on its campus. During its April meeting on Wednesday, the Kansas Board of Regents approved KU’s capital improvement request to repair the heating and cooling system, ...
Story updated 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, 2019: WICHITA — A new law gives Kansas counties the legal option of letting voters cast ballots at any polling site within their county, but spotty internet service and aging voting equipment is expected to curtail its availability in many places, ...
Passersby soon will see a “for lease” sign in front of the historic Castle Tea Room building on south Massachusetts Street. Yes, it also is a sign that the future of one of Lawrence’s more distinctive buildings is uncertain. The nonprofit foundation that owns the Castle Tea Room, 1307 ...
Social advocate and community board member Joey Hentzler has filed for election to the Lawrence City Commission. Hentzler, 25, has lived in Lawrence since 2011, but he said he has thought of the city as his home for longer than that. When he was a teenager and had not yet come out as gay, he ...
TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly has signed a bill that protects the identities of Kansas National Guard members who undergo counseling. The legislation signed by the governor on Wednesday is designed to encourage service members to seek help if needed. It will exempt counseling-related notes and ...
Several opportunities are available to hunt Easter eggs Saturday around Lawrence. Saturday will begin with a special egg hunt just for dogs. Registration will be at 8:30 a.m. at South Park, 1141 Massachusetts St. The hunt will begin at 9 a.m. All dogs must have proof of current vaccinations. ...
The city’s recently completed $74 million sewage treatment plant has clogged, requiring the city to haul sludge to another plant in order to temporarily clear the plant's basins and make repairs. Though the plant is fully operational again, city staff says it's continuing to investigate what ...
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. Tuesday to 6 a.m. Wednesday and includes 212 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A woman has been hospitalized with possibly life-threatening injuries after being stabbed early Wednesday morning in west Lawrence, police say. The stabbing was reported about 6:15 a.m. in the 900 block of Essex Court, according to a Lawrence police news release. Arriving officers found a ...
Updated at 3:20 p.m. Wednesday A man has been arrested on charges from a 2017 hit-and-run crash that seriously injured multiple people pushing a disabled car on 23rd Street in Lawrence. Andrew A. Walden, 25, of Iola, is charged with leaving the scene of an accident and two counts of ...
Today, April 17 1 Million Cups, 9-10 a.m., Cider Gallery, 810 Pennsylvania St. Kaw Valley Bridge Club: Open Pairs, 12:30 p.m., 1025 N. Third St., Suite 120. Teen Zone Expanded, 2-5 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Pedestrian and Bicycle Monthly Webinar Series, 2-3 p.m., ...
Though city leaders continue to stress the need to widen the South Lawrence Trafficway, state officials still have no answer as to when the project will be funded and able to move forward. As part of the Lawrence City Commission’s meeting Tuesday, Kansas Department of Transportation ...
The Lawrence school district has been approved to participate in the Kansas State Department of Education’s redesign project, the district announced Tuesday. Teachers at Broken Arrow, Deerfield and Hillcrest elementaries and Free State High School voted in March to apply for the Apollo ...
Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday will hear a proposal on respite housing that would aim to fill a gap in services for men with mental illness or substance use disorders. According to information provided in the commission’s agenda for its 4 p.m. work session, local behavioral ...
As part of sexual assault awareness month, an exhibit that challenges the idea that victims' clothes lead to assaults returned to the University of Kansas this week. The exhibit known as “What Were You Wearing?” opened in the Kansas Union Gallery on Tuesday as part of the the KU Sexual ...
TOPEKA — As an election supervisor and poll worker for more than 20 years, Robert Bailey routinely mailed in his ballot early, confident that voting problems elsewhere that he read about would have a slight chance of happening in his suburban Kansas City county. So when the 82-year-old ...