My Fourth of July party was big, but not this big. Something caused a retail explosion in July that has contributed to a more than $3 million budget surplus at Lawrence City Hall, according to the latest sales tax reports from the state. The new reports are technically the September sales tax ...
Some of the hundreds of volunteers who staffed the COVID-19 vaccination clinics at the Douglas County fairgrounds will be back there next week, but this time they won’t have to deliver any shots. Good thing, too, because the line of visitors that will be at the fairgrounds this time would ...
I’ve long felt a case could be made that cookies should come first. (That’s why I admire the makers of Cookie Crisp cereal. They flat out recommend eating a bowl of cookies to start your morning.) I don’t know that a bowl of cookies is involved, but I do have news of a cookie first. A ...
About a decade ago, a single word dramatically changed the life of Jackie Foley, CEO of FireLake Construction, which recently moved its corporate headquarters to Lawrence. The word: Vestibule. Foley had recently quit her 20-year career as a bank executive to join her brother Bill Slavin in ...
I thought I had tried every type of breakfast first. (I now begrudgingly admit using Cap’n Crunch as an omelet filling isn’t going to get you promoted to admiral anytime soon.) But today, I added a new first: I ate in the first Flip’d restaurant in America, and yes, it is in Lawrence. ...
A Lawrence manufacturing plant that makes medical test tubes has filed plans to build a more than $10 million expansion that will nearly double the size of its local production facility. Plastikon Industries has filed plans to construct a nearly 80,000-square-foot production facility and ...