UPDATED 1:25 P.M. SEPT. 27 The longtime downtown Lawrence restaurant Merchants Pub & Plate has been sold to a Kansas City-based restaurant group. Merchants co-founder and chef TK Peterson confirmed in a brief conversation this morning that W. VinZant Restaurants has purchased the large ...
In a summer full of orange construction cones, this surely will be the most welcome sight of the year on a Lawrence street. Shaboozey — owner of the current No. 1 song on the Hot 100 Billboard chart — will be in the middle of Massachusetts Street in downtown Lawrence for a free concert ...
Sam Zipper, a scientist at the KU-based Kansas Geological Survey, has no involvement in the big, controversial solar project that has been proposed for more than 600 acres of farmland in northern Douglas County. But he’s sure heard the debate it has created. On one side, supporters say ...
One of the largest — and oldest — banks in America has plans to open its first Lawrence branch. Chase Bank is seeking City Hall approval to open a bank branch at the northwest corner of 23rd Street and Naismith Drive in a building that formerly was occupied by Truity Credit Union. If ...
News and notes from around town: — There’s seemingly a bit of a debate going on in the grocery store industry. Should the self-checkout lane stay or go? One Lawrence grocery store in recent days has apparently said it must go. Lawrence’s Hy-Vee store at Clinton Parkway and Kasold ...
As the old saying goes, money talks — and when the amount is $4 billion, entire communities will stop what they are doing to listen. Indeed, the 2022 announcement that Panasonic was going to build a $4 billion, 4,000-job battery plant for electric vehicles in nearby De Soto made Lawrence ...