Historic church gets makeover

Instead of the sounds of a choir, the buzzing noises of saws fill St. Luke’s AME Church in East Lawrence. After several weeks of construction, the church got new steel supports for its roof Friday. “Today we’re installing the new ...

• Four decades in crisis mode
  “We Never Close.” That was the short but clear slogan for the Headquarters Counseling Center in central Lawrence when a small group started it in November 1969. Four decades later it’s a Lawrence institution.
• City commission agenda for November 24
  City commissioners will consider several ordinances for the Lawrence Wesleyan Church development near 31st Street and Kasold Drive.
• Salvation Army has high hopes for Red Kettle campaign, despite slow start
  The bells of The Salvation Army’s annual Red Kettle campaign will be ringing with a bit more urgency this year.
• Farmers' Turnpike reopens after four months of construction
  The Farmers’ Turnpike will be open for traffic Friday, more than four months after a major section of the road at the northwestern edge of Lawrence closed for reconstruction.

• Cordley to dedicate shelter on Saturday
• Late-night moviegoers flock to 'New Moon'
• Resident hopes to start rickshaw business in downtown Lawrence, pending city approval
• Commission votes against including gender identity in Lawrence's anti-discrimination policy
• Lawrence city commissioner recovering at LMH following procedure to relieve chest pains
• Roof repairs needed at county courthouse
• Fund established for historical society
• Bridge detonation to take place today
• Lawrence Arts Center names new executive director
• Proposed ban on panhandling protested
• Community shelter leaders moving forward with shelter plan despite setback at planning commission
• Plan stalls to move homeless shelter
• Kansas libraries team up to teach children to read, get fit
• Library fundraiser offers hole-in-one family fun
• Help lined up for Thanksgiving dinner
• Week of reading to preschoolers to begin
• Fraternity’s food and cash drive to benefit homeless
• Highway Patrol to target game-day revelers
• Downtown shoppers can help United Way
• City Commission agenda for November 17, 2009
• More coats needed for Share the Warmth
• Oread residents hope to flush portable toilets out of neighborhood
• Speakers at forum criticize shelter proposal
• U.S. Bank branches to start food drive