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Hip replacement patient impressed by his team’s approach

Steve Knoll is no stranger to health care. Owning and operating Knoll Patient Supply, a home medical equipment company, gave him an inside look into the health care industry for 25 years before he sold the business and retired in 2005. Knoll and his wife, Sally, purchased Spirit Lake, a ...

Overcoming delays with pediatric therapy

Zachary bounces into the room, bright-eyed and ready to dive into a session with his occupational therapist, Ashley Miller. She tells Zachary that she likes his red shirt and he excitedly says that it’s red because it’s Valentine’s Day. You only have to flash back a couple of years to ...

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Garden Variety: Fall is a great time to plant a tree — here are some tips

As the saying goes, the best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago; the second-best time is today. This is true even in the fall. In regions with four seasons, many tree species have better success rates when transplanted in the fall or winter rather than spring. Plant trees now, or spend ...

Garden Variety: Tips for growing sweet corn and popcorn

Sweet corn and popcorn are popular vegetable garden crops with a rich history of cultivation in North America. They are closely related to each other, to flint corn and flower corn, to the starchy field corn produced in large fields across the country, and to maize produced by Native Americans ...

Garden Variety: Several ways to water your indoor plants

What is the best way to water an indoor plant? Like so many things in gardening, the answer depends on a variety of factors. The most common methods are top watering, bottom watering and immersion watering. They all have pros and cons, but each one has a place in indoor plant care. Top ...

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LIVING: Broiler makes quick, easy work of Iraqi salmon dish

Grilling is a great method for quickly cooking fish, but the weather isn't always on your side. So instead, take your salmon indoors and use the broiler to replicate the flavors you get from cooking over fire. This recipe was inspired by the Iraqi dish known as masgouf — fish grilled, then ...

CRAVE: Crispy-skinned salmon makes for a perfect date-night dish

The first decision that needs to be made for planning the perfect date night is whether you should eat in or go out. Since you are checking out this article and recipe, I’m thinking that you (like me!) are of the stay-home-and-cook persuasion. So the next decision is a more involved one — ...

CRAVE: Farro bake makes for a comforting vegetarian meal

For a cheesy — and easy — one-pot vegetarian dinner, we move our grains off the stovetop and into the oven. But first, we give them an almost effortless flavor boost. Like most grains, farro typically is prepared by simmering it in broth or water until tender but slightly chewy. But it ...

CRAVE: Braised chicken with fennel and saffron recalls flavors of Provence

Other than a glass of rosé and blooming fields of lavender, nothing calls to mind Provence more than bouillabaisse. The brothy soup, originally from the port city of Marseille, combines whatever shellfish and white fish were caught fresh with iconic flavors such as saffron, fennel, tomato and ...

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KU’s Spencer Museum receives $1.35M gift to support unique space for art

KU’s Spencer Museum of Art has received a more than $1 million donation to permanently fund a position that will draw students, scholars and art lovers to a unique art study center on the Lawrence campus. Museum leaders announced Thursday that the University of Kansas has received a $1.35 ...

Downtown festival to feature Eastern European food, dance, music on Sunday

A festival celebrating the cultures of Eastern Europe and Eurasia is set for Sunday in downtown Lawrence. The Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies will host its annual Spring Festival from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Liberty Hall in downtown. The free event will feature a live ...

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Local History: After Quantrill’s Raid, a Lawrence church became a morgue

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 ...

Local History: How Breezedale boosted the city’s growth spurt

The electric streetcars in Lawrence may have fallen out of favor, but at least one new neighborhood they made possible is still here. Breezedale — Lawrence’s first identifiable suburban neighborhood — is at the southern end of Massachusetts Street. It was developed by Charles E. Sutton, ...

Local History: Historic former church still gets plenty of use today

It's easy to tell what the law offices at 1040 New Hampshire St. used to be. The stone building has all the hallmarks of a church, and indeed that was the purpose it was built for in the 1870s. Cathy Ambler, in a 1990 paper titled “An Early Stone Church: The English Lutheran Church ...

Local History: Eldridge Hotel has permanent spot in Lawrence history

When you think of historic places in Lawrence, there's a long list to choose from, but high on it would have to be the Eldridge Hotel at Seventh and Massachusetts streets. It's not just the hotel, and its history that goes back to the 1800s, that make the site special. The land itself is ...