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A transgender solidarity group petitioned KU to better support its queer community in the face of anti-trans state laws. A member of the chancellor’s office says they’re willing to talk.
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Lawrence community members are invited to tour the completed first phase of the city’s new Municipal Services and Operations campus on the east side of town.
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The K-10 Connector bus route between Lawrence and Johnson County is set to continue through this fall, but it’s unclear how the service will be funded in the future.
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Stanley Halbert, widely known as “Stan the Mailman,” has retired after a longtime stint as the downtown Lawrence mail carrier. He looked back on his career and the many relationships he forged over chocolate chip cookies and doting on shop cats.
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KU students harvested Japanese indigo from a campus dye garden, then transformed its crushed leaves into shifting shades of turquoise and blue on silk in Natural Dye Textiles class.
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Crews will reopen Ninth Street from Mississippi to Louisiana streets Thursday afternoon, according to the city. Here’s the construction schedule for the next few weeks.
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A longtime Lego bricks collector and former IT worker has opened a Bricks & Minifigs store in Lawrence, giving locals a closer option for buying, selling and trading Lego products.
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A new six-unit housing development in central Lawrence will begin welcoming families in early to mid-September, offering lower-barrier housing and case management for people working to regain long-term stability.
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Planning commissioners on Monday voted 4-3 to recommend denial of a request to annex an additional 177 acres of agricultural land west of K-10 into city limits, yet a majority voted in favor of rezoning requests for the same land.
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Dozens of people filed out of Lawrence City Hall Monday evening after planning commissioners agreed to allow the KU Endowment Association to defer a request to annex land near the airport into the city.
