In a typical year, Ron Schmidt and the 30-member Lawrence Potters' Guild do a show at Maceli’s, one at Trinity Lutheran Church, a couple outside the Lawrence Public Library. “Last time we had a [show] at the library, the wind came up and blew a whole display over,” he says. Thousands of ...

With all of the sales tax collections from June and July in the books, it's pretty clear that a massive World Cup boost didn't happen in Lawrence. But, might it be worth watching for a Costco boost? One assumes city leaders are hoping for that, because Lawrence is back to collecting less in ...

As soon as next summer, planning a new home in Lawrence might look less like a complicated city review process and more like ordering something off a menu. That's because the city will be trying out a new program that connects builders and property owners with ready-to-use construction plans ...

A new sign of progress appeared this month for an affordable apartment project in East Lawrence that escaped having some of its city funding clawed back earlier this year. The project is 9 Del Lofts II, a Low-Income Housing Tax Credit project that longtime developer Tony Krsnich is planning ...

One of the largest KC-area car dealers has just purchased an auto dealership with a half-century history in Lawrence. That longtime Lawrence dealership is Dale Willey Chevrolet and GMC at 2840 Iowa St., and the dealer it sold to is Cable Dahmer, which now owns 10 dealerships in and around the ...

Bad television was a big part of the creation of Town Talk. While some of these posts made about as much sense as the plot of a "Gilligan’s Island" episode, that’s not what I’m talking about. Rather, there was a time when I personally created bad television. Years ago, under different ...