Lawrence Parks and Recreation Advisory Board members opted to postpone their vote on a new comprehensive plan after suggesting some revisions and realizing that members of another city board had not yet reviewed the draft.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
The renovated Douglas County Commission meeting room in the historic courthouse was completed just in time for new elected officials to be sworn in Monday.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Several Douglas County elected officials — including two who will expand the county commission to five members and a new district attorney — took their oaths of office during a ceremony Monday morning at the historic county courthouse.
Recent ice, followed by a snow, followed by some melting has created ideal conditions for slick gravel roads in the mornings in parts of the state. Daytime melting can wet a road for refreezing at night.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Extremely cold temperatures and wind chills are in the forecast for Lawrence, and the city is planning to reopen an overflow emergency shelter to ensure everyone will have a warm place to sleep.
There were no injuries, but a lane of Kansas Highway 10 was temporarily closed Saturday evening following a five-vehicle crash, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Lawrence community members at a rally Saturday committed to resisting any and all upcoming efforts to suppress transgender and gender-nonconforming folks.
Cuyler Dunn/Lawrence Times
Eight Lawrence middle and high schoolers spent the afternoon dancing, learning and playing games in preparation for a trip to Hiratsuka, Japan this summer.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
The Lawrence school board on Monday will hear an update from administrators on their plans if the district must make up instructional hours after four snow days already this year.
The Lawrence school district’s data within PowerSchool was not accessed in a recent breach, according to an email sent to school families Friday.
