Photos: Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade returns to downtown Lawrence

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Lawrence families and community members bundled up Saturday morning to head downtown for the 29th annual Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade.

Dozens of entries including horse-drawn carriages and horseback riders made the long route from the Douglas County fairgrounds, downtown and back.

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Photos: Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade returns to downtown Lawrence

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Participants in Lawrence debate on affordable housing all want to see people housed, but the ‘how’ is complicated

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Lawrence Holiday Homes Tour, benefiting Habitat for Humanity, to return

Construction on Bob Billings to reduce road to one lane for multiple blocks

‘By hook or by crook,’ the Lawrence Public Library’s collections team gets books, materials in patrons’ hands

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