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Downtown Lawrence hasn’t been home to a grocery store in recent memory, but Reanna Slagle wants to close that gap. She plans to open Jody’s Market, a microgrocery store geared toward pedestrians, during the first week of July.
As part of a statewide leadership series, Black Kansans will soon convene in Lawrence in hopes of empowering one another.
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A Lawrence crowd welcomed Split Lip Rayfield as the band performed together for the first time since 2019 on Friday night at the fourth annual Kaw River Roots Festival.
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Lawrence community members showed up in droves Friday afternoon and evening for the second annual Midsummer Night on Mass.
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“To me, it symbolizes freedom – how they broke out like birds,” Lawrence quilter and historian Marla Jackson said of an 1800s quilt believed to be made by a Black person who was enslaved.
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Beginning Monday, city contractors will close New Hampshire Street at Sixth Street to start work on the next phase of the ongoing construction on Sixth.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Corrin Lamere, a 22-year-old Haskell student who suffered a severe stroke at the KU powwow that left her unable to speak or move one side of her body, has returned home.
Gov. Laura Kelly said Friday she signed a bill reducing state taxes by $1.2 billion over three years that was approved with broad bipartisan support of legislators during a one-day special session.
A 26-year-old Topeka man was killed in a crash early Friday on Interstate 70 between Lawrence and Topeka in Douglas County.
In ”Embattled Lawrence,” Dennis Domer aims to tell the stories that have been missed in Lawrence’s rich history. Upcoming dinners and presentations will help raise funds to make the next volume possible, Tom Harper writes in this column.
