Thanks to the support of this community, The Lawrence Times launched four years ago, on March 8, 2021, and we’ve grown, changed, hit road bumps, celebrated, worked through hard times and done our very best to keep this community informed ever since.
It has truly been an honor. This community has embraced us and helped us flourish, and we are forever grateful.
Thank you for trusting our team with your stories, thoughts, concerns, news tips, receipts, photos, best and worst moments, and so much more.
As we look ahead, we’re asking for your help to shape our future and evaluate our priorities.
Please take our quick survey, available at lawrenceks.news/ltfuture25.
It should take about 5 to 10 minutes, and we’re going to randomly select 10 respondents who give us their contact info to receive their choice of a free T-shirt or mug from our merch store.
We’d also like to share just a few highlights from the past four years:
• We have published almost 5,000 Lawrence news articles, including at least one post every day since we launched. That includes more than 300 photo galleries to help preserve memories of important moments and create a living archive of our community’s history.
• We have had the opportunity to work with, mentor and learn from several local student journalists at the high school and college levels. Some of them are regular contributors to our team.
• We have published obituaries for almost 300 people at no cost to their loved ones. Altogether, they would be equivalent to a cost of more than $130,000 at the legacy newspaper in town.
• We’ve been selected for a prestigious grant because of our work to fill crucial coverage gaps in local news. (Read more)
• We’ve been honored with dozens of awards from the Kansas Press Association and other organizations. (Read more)
We need our readers’ help to keep going and growing.
Our readers probably know that local news and the free press are more essential today than ever before.
Our small team — two full-time folks supported by several part-time and freelance contributors — is doing our best, but we need support to keep doing more and revolutionizing local news.
Please consider a paid subscription to The Lawrence Times if you can, and encourage others to subscribe as well. We want to keep our coverage open for everyone to read, and we need those who can pay to chip in and support news access for those who can’t.
If you own a business or have something else to advertise, we’d love to talk about how we can work together.
If you have questions about who we are and what we do, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Thank you, Lawrence, Douglas County and beyond! Cheers to the next four years.
If our local journalism matters to you, please help us keep doing this work.
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