The City of Lawrence is launching its new homeless solutions division, and Misty Bosch-Hastings, who has served as homeless programs coordinator for the city since summer, will serve as its director.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
A second open house-style community meeting is set to discuss plans to make a stretch of Massachusetts Street from 14th Street south to 23rd into a multimodal corridor.
The City of Lawrence will soon begin work on several projects along Sixth Street that will require some road and lane closures starting Monday, Feb. 5.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
Lawrence Transit is making tweaks to some bus route schedules based on community feedback since major route redesigns went into effect at the beginning of the year.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
With the worst of the extreme weather behind us — at least for now — Lawrence’s overflow winter emergency shelters will close for the time being, effective Wednesday morning.
The City of Lawrence will soon begin work on several projects along Sixth Street that will require some road and lane closures starting Monday, Feb. 5.
After canceling residential recycling pickup for Tuesday and Wednesday, the City of Lawrence has suspended the service through Sunday, Jan. 21.
The numbers of people seeking emergency winter shelter have “significantly increased” since extreme weather hit last week, and the City of Lawrence announced Tuesday plans for a third overflow shelter to open.
The City of Lawrence will not have residential recycling service or commercial trash pickup Wednesday because of equipment issues from ongoing extreme cold temperatures and winter weather conditions.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
The numbers of people experiencing homelessness who are seeking indoor emergency shelter have “significantly increased” as deadly winter weather has hit Lawrence over the past week.
