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A beloved celebration of street performers returns to downtown Lawrence this weekend. The Busker Festival will bring dance, art, music, magic, acrobatics and much more to Mass Street and beyond.
Chansi Long/Lawrence Times
Signs of Life, a bookstore, espresso bar and art gallery that has been a longtime fixture in downtown Lawrence, is closing this month, the store has announced.
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Lawrence may get to play a part in Kansas City’s soccer World Cup qualifying events in 2026 as the possible location of a base camp for an international team.
Mackenzie Clark/Lawrence Times
The state Department of Corrections’ prisoner review board forwarded a recommendation to Gov. Laura Kelly on the executive clemency application of a Kansas woman convicted in the slaying of a man who allegedly sexually assaulted her for months, state officials said.
To the relief of its members, the Community-Police Oversight Work Group met for the first time Monday. Members shared their hopes, concerns and needs to move the process forward.
The Lawrence school board on Monday voted to sell surplus property to Tenants to Homeowners as well as begin the process to sell East Heights and transfer the student programs held there to one of the elementary schools that will soon close.
As school ends this week, the Lawrence Public Library is celebrating the launch of its summer reading program with a party on the library lawn.
Derek Mecca
Downtown Lawrence Inc. is making big changes to its traditional annual sidewalk sale. The new Mid Summer Night on Mass will move the fun to the evening hours on June 23.
The 26 members of Bishop Seabury Academy’s Class of 2023 have been accepted to 115 colleges and were offered more than $7.4 million in four-year renewable scholarships and institutional grants.
Ken Lassman
The large milkweed beetle is colorful for the same reason monarch butterflies are: to warn potential predators that their milkweed diet makes them poisonous and not worth eating.
