Community members to hold healing gathering for Prairie Park remnant prairie
A group of community members on Monday will gather for a healing event following the destruction of wildflowers on remnant prairie behind Prairie Park Nature Center.
A group of community members on Monday will gather for a healing event following the destruction of wildflowers on remnant prairie behind Prairie Park Nature Center.
Community members walked together through downtown Lawrence to show solidarity and raise awareness of the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people and the fight to end the historical violence.
Derek Rogers on Tuesday apologized for the city’s Parks and Recreation department spraying herbicide at the remnant prairie behind Prairie Park Nature Center, which is killing millions of flowers and causing irreversible damage.
La Parrilla has closed permanently, but Italian restaurant Genovese is reopening in its place.
“They wanted us to reopen, and we heard them loud and clear,” the co-owner said.
The Lied Center’s 2023-24 season is packed with a variety of music, dance, theatre and more, including a big name who will bring Lawrence community members into his show.
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City staff members are enforcing a “no visitors” policy aimed at improving safety at the North Lawrence campsite for people experiencing homelessness, but some camp residents and grassroots advocates are concerned that it’s causing further isolation.
The woman who was found dead in her bed Saturday morning at a University of Kansas sorority was Piper Alexis Carter, 19, of Overland Park, according to Lawrence police.
The driver of a propane truck suffered suspected minor injuries in a crash Monday afternoon in the 800 block of North 1800 Road, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office and Kansas Highway Patrol.
Millions of irreplaceable wildflowers that have grown for thousands of years in the remnant prairie behind Prairie Park Nature Center will be dead within days.
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