Recounting his journey from Lansing Correctional Facility to mayor of Leavenworth, Jermaine Wilson's message to attendees of Saturday's Recovery Walk at South Park was to never allow your past to define you. "Learn from your past, but don't live in it," Wilson said, telling the Journal-World ...
The eastbound Kansas Highway 10 exit ramp to 23rd Street will be closed Tuesday for bridge repair work, according to a news release from the Kansas Department of Transportation on Friday. The release said the exit ramp would be closed Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., or until the work is ...
A monthslong process entailing school closures, staffing reductions, and contract negotiations for certified and classified personnel is expected to culminate with the adoption of the 2023-24 budget at Monday night's Lawrence school board meeting. As part of its agenda, the board is slated to ...
A Lawrence robotics studio teaching kids how to program, build and operate robots has expanded its offerings for elementary-aged students and is also forming teams for competition. The studio, Level Up Robots, 1520 Wakarusa Drive, opened in September of 2022, and has not only been keeping ...
The shelter structure at Broken Arrow Park is currently undergoing maintenance to make it usable by members of the public year-round, and a city spokesperson says upgrades at other parks around Lawrence are in the works both now and looking ahead to 2024. City spokesperson Cori Wallace told ...
WICHITA — Three years after the pandemic sent most Kansas kids home to learn, schools have a vexing new challenge: getting them to come back to class. Missing school has become a crisis statewide. More than a quarter of Kansas students were chronically absent during the 2021-22 school year, ...
