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Sylas May

Reporter · US

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Sep 25, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Sylas May

    Locust Street apartments, Holcom housing development among this year’s applicants for $700K in Affordable Housing Trust Fund money (opens the original)

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    This rendering shows an apartment development proposed for Locust Street in North Lawrence. New apartment buildings in North Lawrence, row houses near Holcom Park and a redevelopment of an old school building are a few of the projects that have applied for money from the city’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund for 2027. The application period closed earlier this month, and at the Affordable Housing Advisory Board’s meeting in October, the applicants will be able to make their pitches. Each fall, AH

  2. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Sylas May

    Business owners hurting from Wakarusa Street closure say they’re getting no answers, no signs, no accountability (opens the original)

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    Miller Mart owner Sang Lee bags a customer's order on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2026. Miller Mart owner Sang Lee knows his regulars by name. He grabs what they want, like a specific brand of cigarettes, without them needing to ask for it. “I’m at the point where I can count individual transactions on the computer and know which customer it was that made this one transaction by looking at it,” he says. “Every regular, they have a specific thing that they buy.” He talks to one woman about her recent va

  3. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Sylas May

    At St. John’s 30th Oktoberfest, the secret ingredient is community – and a little bit of beer (opens the original)

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    Susan Lechtenberg-Fingerhut takes a selfie with other volunteers after making bierocks for St. John's Oktoberfest. It’s St. John’s Oktoberfest weekend, and just like each of the past 20 or so years, that means Susan Lechtenberg-Fingerhut has her breakfast plans covered. “We start at 8 a.m. on Saturday morning of the event frying all of the schnitzel,” said Lechtenberg-Fingerhut after some food prep work in the church basement earlier this week. “So, every year for breakfast, I get schnitzel. Whi

  4. Article · Sep 21, 2026 · Sylas May

    Planning Commission recommends adding more layers to approval process for data centers in Lawrence (opens the original)

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    Commenters hold signs opposing hyperscale data centers at the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission meeting on Sept. 21, 2026. More layers of approvals, including multiple public hearings, would be required for data center developments in Lawrence under a proposed change to the city’s land use code that the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission recommended on Monday. The Planning Commission voted 6-1, with Commissioner Gary Rexroad opposed, to recommend a text amendment to the code t

  5. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Sylas May

    For this local artist and many others, Lawrence’s Art in the Park is the biggest event of the year (opens the original)

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    Ceramics artist Melanie Harvey shows off a Kansas-themed vase on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. In 12 years of showing her pottery at Art in the Park, Melanie Harvey has some ideas of what the people want to see. They want the chicken band. They want the T. rex on the drums, or the cat on the bicycle – the “classic characters” she came up with, inspired by people she knows and things in her life. And the best part is, they don’t just want to look – they want to buy. “A lot of places will have art fai

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