Chad Lawhorn

Chad Lawhorn is a staff writer for the Lawrence Journal-World

Recent stories

Smaller communities in Douglas County selected to receive business expansion funds
By Chad Lawhorn
November 15, 2011
Baldwin City, Eudora and Lecompton were selected Monday as 2011 Entrepreneurship Communities through NetWork Kansas.
Family Dollar files plans for Eudora store
By Chad Lawhorn
August 31, 2011
Eudora is set to get a Family Dollar store.
After closing in Lawrence, Penny Annie’s to open in downtown Eudora
By Chad Lawhorn
10:05 a.m., July 14, 2011 Updated 10:22 a.m.
Penny Annie’s, which closed its location at 845 Mass. in Lawrence, is heading to downtown Eudora.
Eudora school district, city hope to see redevelopment of school site off Kansas Highway 10
By Chad Lawhorn
January 20, 2011
The city of Eudora and the Eudora school district are trying to catch the attention of Lawrence developers and others. They have what may be a pretty enticing carrot: 15 acres of property along a busy Kansas Highway 10 interchange.
Douglas County census information shows diversity among communities
By Chad Lawhorn
December 16, 2010
It has never been a surprise the Douglas County communities of Baldwin City, Eudora and Lecompton are much different from their bigger neighbor Lawrence. But now new data show just how different they are.
Most Douglas County tax bills show increase
By Chad Lawhorn
November 7, 2010
In the world of Douglas County taxes, this is the year that subtleness took a backseat to shortfalls.
Legal battle over water means higher fees for rural Eudora customers
By Chad Lawhorn
October 20, 2010
In eastern Douglas County, a long-simmering water war is starting to produce new levels of pain.
Perkins abruptly retires from KU athletics
By Andy Hyland & Chad Lawhorn
September 8, 2010
The buzzer has sounded on Lew Perkins’ tenure as Kansas University athletics director.
Pyle Meat Co. packing up
Recession ‘far worse than any other’ on Eudora business
By Chad Lawhorn
April 12, 2010
Four hundred pounds of beef jerky cools in the stainless steel smoker in the back room. In the front room, Tom Pyle grabs a seat at the employee lunch table, while son Pat wipes it clean from a homemade meal that his mother had brought them, as she does each day.
Bison transplanted from South Dakota to Kansas Flint Hills
By Chad Lawhorn
October 28, 2009
Perhaps this really is a prairie pot of gold.

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