At times, it seems like beer has taken over the world. There are sports bars with beer taps measured by the dozen, liquor stores with beer coolers the size of a small house and, of course, there are plenty of Lawrence neighborhoods where a forklift would be handy to take out the recycling bin ...
Let’s take a look at some news and notes from around town:
— Motorists soon should notice large amounts of construction work at the northwest corner of Sixth Street and Folks Road. Capitol Federal Savings has started work on a new branch bank at the site.
We reported in March that ...
Story updated at 1:25 p.m. Nov. 1, 2023:
Costs to renovate the University of Kansas’ football stadium and add a conference center to its north bowl are likely to be more than $100 million greater than what KU leaders expected just a year ago.
Members of the Kansas Board of Regents have ...
Another big, proposed renewable energy project in Douglas County appears likely to face big opposition.
If you have driven around rural Douglas County at all in recent months, you’ve surely seen the yard signs opposing “industrial” solar projects and big wind energy farms. Neighbors ...
I don’t know if it was all the notebooks and pencils or if it was parents hosting their own private celebrations, but the return of kids to school returned Lawrence’s retail scene to slightly healthier ground.
The latest statistics from the Kansas Department of Revenue show Lawrence ...
As the calendar turned to fall, Lawrence’s housing market simply continued its fall. Home sales in September fell by 17% compared with a year ago and, in a sign of the times, that double-digit decline actually could be counted as an improvement.
Lawrence home sales were down 45% in July and ...