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Residents select new name for Pinckney neighborhood: Pinkney
The residents of the neighborhood formerly known as Pinckney have spoken.
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Garcia family’s imprint on Lawrence Mexican food scene felt through museum exhibit
Starting with the El Tampico Club in the 1940s, the Garcia family quickly expanded its footprint in Lawrence. Mementos from the family’s time in town and their efforts to introduce authentic Mexican food to the community are on display through October at the Watkins Museum of History.
As federal government begins study of Native American boarding schools, history of Haskell likely to see spotlight
A federal government investigation into its own oversight of Native American boarding schools — used in the late 1800s to mid-1900s to force children into cultural assimilation — will most likely include an examination of Haskell Indian Nations University.
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Lawrence’s Grover Barn tapped for federal grant preserving Underground Railroad sites
A federal grant will help the city of Lawrence conduct a drone study of Grover Barn’s structural integrity. The barn was a site on the Underground Railroad, and a local group has big hopes for its future potential.
What’s the status of the historical markers for Nick Rice and Tiger Dowdell’s deaths?
In the nine months since the Lawrence City Commission unanimously approved creating historical markers to memorialize two teenagers killed by Lawrence police, the conversation on what those markers might look like, where they’ll be placed, and how much they’ll cost has mostly gone silent.
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Community event to memorialize 3 Black men lynched in 1882
After 139 years to the day, community members will memorialize the deaths of three Black men who were lynched in 1882.
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Pinckney Neighborhood residents voting between 4 finalists for new name
About a year since talks began to change the name of a neighborhood in Lawrence, its residents are voting between four finalists.
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Lawrence community members visit graves of loved ones
Over this solemn holiday weekend, Lawrence residents stopped by Oak Hill Cemetery to visit the graves of loved ones who have passed.
Events to mark 165th anniversary of Battle of Black Jack, 200th year of Santa Fe Trail
The beginning of June will mark the 165th anniversary of the Battle of Black Jack, […]
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John Brown had powerful enemies during his lifetime and still does today, speaker says at Lawrence Times party
Despite pouring rain for most of Saturday, dozens of community members stopped by The Lawrence Times’ party at South Park. Kerry Altenbernd spoke on abolitionist John Brown, among other attractions.
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