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Kaw Valley Almanac for March 9-15, 2026
Sandhill cranes have been heading north through Kansas. Here’s an outdoor checklist for this week: See if you can hear a frog, see a goose, see a maple tree blooming, taste a wild onion leaf and smell a crocus.
Kaw Valley Almanac for March 9-15, 2026
Sandhill cranes have been heading north through Kansas. Here’s an outdoor checklist for this week: See if you can hear a frog, see a goose, see a maple tree blooming, taste a wild onion leaf and smell a crocus.
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KU School of Music to present annual Vespers concert
KU instrumentalists and choral singers will perform at the 101st annual Vespers concert next week.
Nathan Kramer / Lawrence Times
Van Go’s Adornment art show, Eudora Holiday Market and more coming up in Douglas County
There are plenty of festivities coming up around Douglas County to do your holiday shopping and support local artists and makers. Here’s a guide to events happening this weekend and in coming weeks.
Nathan Kramer / Lawrence Times
Free State journalism students, former Lawrence High adviser net national awards
Several Free State High School students claimed national awards for reporting, photojournalism and design, and a local journalism instructor netted the National Scholastic Press Association’s highest honor for educators.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
9th Street businesses ask people to keep shopping local as long-term road closure looms
The city will close a block of 9th Street for the Jayhawk Watershed project for several months starting Monday, and an impacted business is asking folks to make the slightly longer trek to their front doors to shop local this season.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
Festival of Trees opening soon in downtown Lawrence
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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Works by late Lawrence artist Louis Copt for sale at Final Friday and pop-up gallery
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.
Lawrence Humane Pet of the Week: Guzma has gotta catch all of the hugs
Guzma may share a name with a Pokémon villain, but the only thing he’s focused on catching is hugs.
City of Lawrence announces next director of economic development
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.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
Flyover planned for KU football game, plus a road closure reminder
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.
Lawrence’s Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade canceled because of horse virus outbreak
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.
Tom Harper/Lawrence Times
City of Lawrence’s 2025 Phoenix Award winners announced
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.
Woman killed in crash on East 23rd Street in Lawrence
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 festive fundraiser for local nonprofits, opens soon
Lawrence Lights, a drive-thru holiday light extravaganza benefiting local nonprofits, will open this week.
Wulfe Wulfemeyer/Lawrence Times
Here are Lawrence-area restaurants that will be open on Thanksgiving, plus info on some free meals
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.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
When parking is free, when trash pickup is delayed and more Thanksgiving holiday notes
Here’s info on when parking downtown is free, when trash pickup will be delayed, what’s closed when and more for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in Lawrence.
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