Friends have made donating blood together a tradition

June 1, 2025 What if saving a life was as easy and fun as spending an hour with a friend? For Laurie Ziegler and Linda Kucza, that’s exactly what blood donation has become — a life-saving

tradition wrapped in laughter, friendship and a little friendly competition. How it started Ziegler, a reading ... May 26, 2025 Wichita — The children in Susie Kelley’s class at Harry Street

Elementary School were kindergartners when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools and sent students home for remote learning. Now they’re finishing fifth grade and preparing for middle

school. And though it’s been years ... May 24, 2025 NEW YORK — Marian Rivman is pushing 80. Harriet Luria is a proud 83. In this trio, Carol Leister is the baby at 62. Together, they have

decades of experience with yoga. Only now, it involves a chair. Chair yoga adapts traditional yoga poses for older people and others with physical ... May 22, 2025 Douglas County

Commissioner Gene Dorsey is concerned that a crisis is “imminent” at Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, and he thinks the county ought to provide some immediate financial assistance.

Dorsey made that request to fellow county commissioners at Wednesday evening’s ... March 30, 2025 Buying or selling a home is a significant financial and emotional undertaking, and a real

estate agent can be an invaluable partner in the process. A skilled professional can help navigate the complexities of the market, negotiate on your behalf and ensure a smooth transaction.

Understanding ... March 30, 2025 For homebuyers looking to make their new homes more energy-efficient, specialized financing options can help cover the costs of improvements while

potentially lowering long-term utility expenses. Energy-efficient mortgages, or EEMs, provide buyers with additional borrowing power to finance ... March 30, 2025 Climate change is reshaping

the real estate landscape as extreme weather events become more frequent and severe. Rising temperatures, increasing wildfires and intensifying hurricanes are affecting home values and

making insurance coverage more costly and, in some cases, difficult to ... March 30, 2025 Co-living spaces have emerged as an answer to rising housing costs and more densely populated urban

areas. An alternative to traditional renting, this shared-living model is gaining traction among young professionals, digital nomads and even retirees looking for community-oriented housing

... March 4, 2025 A local restaurant owner who has helped lead the Lawrence Restaurant Association will serve on the board for a national group that supports independent restaurants. Codi

Bates, the owner and operator of Bates Co., whose restaurant brands include The Burger Stand and Bon Bon!, was recently ... January 18, 2025 When COVID scrambled the economy in March of

2020, one profession in particular was flipped upside down: Those who made a living feeding others in restaurants now needed help to feed their families and pay their bills after the

industry practically shut down overnight. Here in Lawrence, it was ... July 26, 2024 It’s the dog days of summer at Jefferson’s — hot dogs, that is. Jefferson’s Restaurants are celebrating

the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics with a special promotion today, July 26, offering free hot dogs to any guest who brings in an award — whether it’s a ... May 14, 2024 Italian

porchetta is a special dish of spit-roasted pork flavored with herbs, fennel and garlic. It's delicious, but much too involved for a weeknight dinner. To give pork chops the same flavor

profile with less work, we narrowed the ingredients to those best suited for searing on the ... May 29, 2025 Friday, May 30 Final Friday Art Walk includes: · Works by Dan Shattuck,

5:30-8:30 p.m., The Bourgeois Pig, 6 E. Ninth St. · Fiber art by Alyson Bush, 5-9 p.m., Edward Jones, 888 New Hampshire St. · Openings of new exhibits: Jeff Eaton, Anthony Corraro, Vesna ...

May 8, 2025 Friday, May 9 Lawrence Sports Card Show, 4-8 p.m., DoubleTree, 200 McDonald Drive. Continues through the weekend. Email [email protected] for more information. Free State

Story Slam: “Grand Slam,” live music and social time 7 p.m., slam 7:30 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New ... May 8, 2025 An artwork that warns of the dangers of the pesticide DDT has been

chosen as the “Common Work of Art” that will be featured on the University of Kansas campus during the next school year. The painting “Haunted by the Ghosts of Our Own Making” by the late

American artist Hollis Sigler ... May 6, 2025 The University of Kansas’ Campanile atop Mt. Oread once again will be atop the world of North American carillonists — the musicians who play

bell towers — and Lawrence residents will get treated to several free concerts as a result. KU’s School of Music will host the Guild ... February 27, 2025 Whether you know it for its train

or its swimming pool or its basketball court and playground equipment, the park running for two blocks between Kentucky and Tennessee streets has been through a lot. Often referred to as

“Train Park” in reference to the No. 1073 locomotive on its grounds, ... August 30, 2024 Most of the rural schools in Douglas County are identified by a name as well as a number. An

exception to this norm is “No. 6.” Goldie Piper Daniels, in her 1974 history of the educational buildings in our county, notes that the name “Crutchfield” was found attached to No. 6 on an

... June 23, 2024 On the east side of Iowa Street, between 19th and 23rd streets, stands the United States Army Reserve Training Center, which bears the name of Samuel J. Churchill.

Churchill is one of two Medal of Honor recipients to have been Lawrence residents and to be buried here. Churchill was ... February 18, 2024 On the east side of the 700 block of Vermont

Street, you can see a small bronze plaque on a brick building at about eye level. It tells of a First Methodist Church that once stood there, which was built in 1857 and was used as morgue

following Quantrill’s Raid on Aug. 21, 1863. More than ...