News and notes from around town:• Folks who end up in the Douglas County Jail probably already have a lot on their minds. They may end up with one more thing to worry about: Who will see their name and mug shot in a new publication that will be for sale in convenience stores around town? Word ...
News and notes from around town:• On Tuesday we got a look at how fund-raising efforts are going for Lawrence City Commission candidates. Today, here’s a look at another key set of filings for candidates — their statements of substantial interests. The state requires candidates to ...
News and notes from around town:• Downtown Lawrence Inc. has a new director. Longtime Lawrence writer and TV host Cathy Hamilton has been hired to take over the top spot for the organization. Hamilton previously worked for The World Company, the parent company of LJWorld.com, in several ...
News and notes from around town:• Keep your eye on the corner of 27th and Iowa streets. News in the development community is that several sets of assessments are being done on the vacant lot that is at the northeast corner of the intersection. Speculation is that the tenant most interested in ...
News and notes from around town:• There’s nothing like a warm-up in the weather to remind you that spring is on the way. This spring it also looks like the garden center market is going to heat up a bit. For at least the second year in a row, Manhattan-based Kaw Valley Greenhouses plans to ...
News and notes from around town:• Yeah, give me a large sub, a coffee with cream and a gallon of washer fluid to go. That’s a bit of a new concept for drive-thrus, but it is one that has found its way to West Sixth Street. The Zarco 66 station at Sixth and Florida streets has traded its ...
News and notes from around town:• It is that time of year again. Around March 1, property owners should receive change of value notices in their mail boxes. The notices tell you how much your property has changed in value from Jan. 1, 2010 to Jan. 1, 2011 — or how much it has changed at ...
News and notes from around town:• The concrete is starting to pile up at the corner of Ninth and New Hampshire as a project to build a seven-story apartment, retail and office building moves ahead. But what hasn’t moved ahead is the idea of allowing the new building to reserve about 65 ...
News and notes from around town:• If you believe The Wall Street Journal, there’s about a one in three chance that the Lawrence Borders store is set to close. The Journal reported this weekend that Borders is in the “final stages of preparing a bankruptcy filing.” According to the ...
• Well Dillons isn’t the only grocery in town that has a major project in the works. As we reported in April, the Hy-Vee at Clinton Parkway and Kasold has plans for an expansion. The company has pulled a $2-million building permit and work is underway to add about 14,000 square feet to the ...
News and notes from around town:• As promised, I checked in with a city official about concerns raised by a local caterer that the city was unfairly competing with private business by renting out the former Carnegie Library for events. In Wednesday’s Town Talk Steve Maceli, owner of ...
News and notes from around town:• City leaders have spent a lot of time talking about the importance of being business friendly, but at least one small downtown business owner doesn’t think City Hall is being very friendly to him. In fact, he thinks the city has become an unfair competitor. ...
News and notes from around town:• Indeed the rumors of Vermont Street BBQ making a comeback are true. Chris Brann, the former general manager for the popular restaurant, told me that he plans to sign a lease for a new location within a week. And no, it won’t be moving back to Vermont ...
News and notes from around town:• Let’s think of this like the day-old shelf at Dillons. There were several items brought up at Thursday’s public hearing on the Dillons project for south Massachusetts Street that were interesting but that didn’t make it into my original article due to ...
News and notes from around town: • Get ready to add a new player to the daily battle of fast-food companies that takes place near Lawrence’s Free State High. Plans have been filed at City Hall for a Burger King to be built in the Bauer Farm development, which is along Sixth Street ...
Dillons live blogI'll be live blogging the Board of Zoning Appeals meeting Thursday night on LJWorld.com, but you can join in the conversation, too.Leave comments on the blog or tweet using the hashtag #dillons. We'll import #dillons tweets into the live blog, so you can see what the community ...
News and notes from around town:• The frigid weather has the Lawrence Community Shelter facing some special challenges. Shelter director Loring Henderson told me that he has space for the people coming into the shelter, thanks to cooperation from area churches that are allowing their ...
News and notes from around town:• It looks like there will be some sidewalks to shovel again. As I think most everybody knows, Lawrence has an ordinance that requires public sidewalks that traverse your property to be shoveled within 48 hours following the end of a snowfall. (Warning: If you ...
News and notes from around town:• City Hall staff members want to start having a discussion about annexing a rural neighborhood that isn’t so rural anymore. City commissioners at their meeting on Tuesday will be asked to allow staff to begin annexation discussions with residents of the ...
News and notes from around town:• A plan to build a new Dillons grocery store on south Massachusetts Street has hit its first snag. The city’s Board of Zoning Appeals last month declined to approve two key variances needed for the project. Instead, it delayed action on the request after ...