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Community supports local small businesses at Inclusive Winter Market in Lawrence
As part of the Inclusive Winter Market, nearly 100 local artists and small business owners showcased their work Saturday at the Lied Center. It opens for a second day on Sunday.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
Photos: Lawrence’s Holiday Farmers Market at the fairgrounds
Community members from Lawrence and beyond packed the Douglas County Fairgrounds on Saturday for the Holiday Farmers Market.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Families find community in Lawrence home-schooling group that rose ‘from the ashes of COVID’
The Phoenix Collective aims to build something new and different, focusing on community for a group of Lawrence-area families that are home-schooling their children.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Prairie Park Nature Center in Lawrence celebrates 25 years
Prairie Park Nature Center on Saturday celebrated 25 years of preserving local wildlife and native species in Lawrence.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
KU architecture students celebrate new outdoor classroom, pavilion at Prairie Park Nature Center
Students in a KU architecture class on Saturday celebrated a new pavilion they designed at Prairie Park Nature Center using old road signs and other repurposed materials.
Carter Gaskins/Lawrence Times
Words Save Lives event brings community together in North Lawrence
Lawrence community members gathered for poetry, music, some laughs and a few tears at the 11th annual Words Save Lives event on Tuesday, which was World Suicide Prevention Day.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Photos: Haskell Indian Art Market returns
Hundreds of community members showed up to shop the jewelry, ledger art, beaded works, pottery, frybread and much more on Saturday, the first day of the Haskell Indian Art Market.
Tom Harper/Lawrence Times
Demolition underway at Allen Press building in downtown Lawrence
Demolition began Wednesday on the former Allen Press buildings at 11th and Massachusetts streets in downtown Lawrence.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
Pups go for a dip in the pool at Lawrence’s Pooch Plunge
As Lawrence’s Outdoor Aquatic Center is closing for the season, pups got to go for a swim Tuesday at the annual Pooch Plunge.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
FidPick brings musicians together in Lawrence
Lawrence community members gathered at South Park despite the heat Sunday for the 43rd Annual Kansas State Fiddling and Picking Championships, also known as FidPick.
Nathan Kramer / Lawrence Times
Families, KU football fans gather to kick off season
Downtown Lawrence celebrated the upcoming KU football season with a kickoff party Saturday evening.
Molly Adams/Lawrence Times
Mother, son to own new zero net energy Habitat for Humanity home in Eudora
A Eudora mother and son are set to become first-time homeowners as they prepare to move into their newly built zero net energy house.
Video game offers sneak peek at KU football stadium; in real life, construction of ‘wheat’ lights underway
Some gamers are getting a glimpse of what the renovated Kansas football stadium will look like once construction is complete. In real life, the massive construction project is moving forward and wheat-themed lights are going up.
Lawrence organization receives donation to fund free back-to-school haircuts
A Lawrence organization that offers kids free back-to-school haircuts has received a donation ahead of this year’s first annual Kids Expo.
Mackenzie Clark/Lawrence Times
‘Treat people as people’: Lawrence community members suggest solutions to barriers with police
Dozens of Lawrence community members gathered Saturday morning to identify solutions to barriers between the community and police. Their comments boiled down to one overarching message: We’re all humans, and we need to treat each other as such.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Trees down all over Lawrence after storm; meteorologist says harsh winds were likely a downburst
Trees were destroyed and damaged all across Lawrence in a storm late Wednesday. Thursday morning light revealed the extent and the collateral damage from felled limbs and branches.
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