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Police close alleged speakeasy in downtown Birmingham Advertisement BIRMINGHAM — Police are being mum on the details of an alleged speakeasy operation downtown that reportedly was busted up last month. During his regular report to the City Commission April 26, City Manager Tom Markus detailed an illegal bar and music venue operating in an empty retail space in the 200 block of Willits Street. He said police closed the establishment and issued 16 citations for misdemeanor offenses ranging from illegal occupancy where a special land use permit is required to selling alcohol without a liquor ...

Children play at South Park Wading Pool in this photo from the early 1950s. Perhaps it is fitting that what led to the creation of a city department whose business includes organizing games, hanging holiday lights and planting flowers was actually the community’s hardship. In the late 1930s, Lawrence, like the rest of the country, was still in the midst of the Great Depression, and while the adults worked longer hours and dealt with the struggles of the time, the activities that once entertained the children had become scarce. “All of these organized activities that would have occupied ...

Lawrence City Hall is pictured in September 2018. Lawrence city leaders will soon discuss an outside study of the city’s agreement with Douglas County to jointly fund and provide emergency medical services, the results of which call for the county to increase how much money it provides toward the service. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will receive a report regarding the EMS study, which was recently completed by The Public Policy and Management Center at Wichita State University. Currently, the city pays about three-quarters of the cost for the service and th...

Leaders hope to leave 2020 behind in healthier, more stable year There are dozens of office buildings on Telegraph Road in Bingham Farms, and many have lost tenants during the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo by Tiffany Esshaki OAKLAND COUNTY — On Jan. 1, the world celebrated the start of a new year. But let’s get real: We were really toasting the end and good riddance of 2020, a year filled with illnesses, upheaval and general misery. Alas, we get a chance to start over and keep working toward something better. That’s just what leaders around the Eagle’s coverage area plan to do with the nex...

photo by: Mike Yoder Capt. Anthony Brixius, interim Lawrence police chief, left, speaks during an opening ceremony for the department's new headquarters at 5100 Overland Drive, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. Wearing dress uniforms complete with white gloves, Lawrence police department command staff unfolded the U.S. flag and sent it slowly up the flagpole in front of the department’s new headquarters Monday, officially marking the building’s opening. In the crowd gathered along the road in front of the nearly $20 million headquarters were former police chiefs, city staff members, city commission...