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Festival of Trees, with its evergreens bedecked with everything from candy canes to Jayhawks to Christmas movie DVDs, will bring its quirky holiday spirit back to downtown Lawrence this week to benefit The O’Connell Children’s Shelter.
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Limited works by the late Lawrence artist Louis Copt are for sale at a pop-up gallery, and smaller prints will be available at this month’s Final Friday event.
Guzma may share a name with a Pokémon villain, but the only thing he’s focused on catching is hugs.
The City of Lawrence has announced Susie Carson as the new director of economic development. She has more than 15 years of experience economic development and chamber leadership roles, according to the city.
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Military aircraft will fly over Lawrence, and a road near the stadium will be closed for the KU football game against the University of Utah on Friday.
The Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade has been canceled this year because of an outbreak of equine herpesvirus affecting horses in multiple states, according to parade organizers.
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Recipients of the city’s 2025 Phoenix Awards for service, creativity and dedication to the arts in Lawrence are a local blacksmith, an advocate for Indigenous arts, a volunteer and three others.
A Lawrence woman was killed in a “near head-on crash” Monday evening on East 23rd Street, according to the police department.
Lawrence Lights, a drive-thru holiday light extravaganza benefiting local nonprofits, will open this week.
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Here are the restaurants in and around Lawrence that have confirmed that they’ll be open Thanksgiving day, plus where to get a free holiday meal.
