Lawrence school board member Kay Emerson to resign
Lawrence school board member Kay Emerson is resigning from the board, she announced via Facebook on Friday.
Lawrence school board member Kay Emerson is resigning from the board, she announced via Facebook on Friday.
If you’ve lived in Lawrence more than a few years, you’ve probably crossed paths with Bob Silipigni. Since 2001, he’s traversed the streets of his hometown and raised almost a million dollars in the fight to end cancer.
Increased seating, accessibility and lighting are part of a new expanded lounge at Nostalgia Room, Lawrence’s nonalcoholic bar. Morning coffee and brunch cocktails are available, too, with the addition of barista Becca Dreyfus.
As the saying goes, the show must go on. And for 50 years, the Summer Youth Theatre has gone on, rain or shine. In spite of all sorts of other barriers, it’s brought energetic theatre performances to the community and given thousands of young performers their first chances onstage.
A common thread through almost all of Lawrence Summer Youth Theatre’s 50-year history has been Ric Averill, along with his wife Jeanne and their children.
Two dogs died in a fire Wednesday afternoon in a tent near the Kansas River levee in Lawrence, according to a news release from Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical.
Van Go artists unveiled “The Art of Listening,” a new mural that graces the front of Kansas Suicide Prevention Headquarters, in front of a crowd of eager spectators Wednesday evening.
As the sun set behind the Free State High School press box on Wednesday night, the light created a backdrop nearly as beautiful as graduate speaker Solie Edison’s speech to his fellow graduates.
Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday signed off on a plan for Lawrence-based nonprofit DCCCA to increase distribution of Narcan, the lifesaving opioid overdose reversal drug, throughout the county.
For the Pinckney Elementary School community, the last day of school this year really does mean the last day of the school.
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