An update from The Lawrence Times news team

Hello, readers! 

The Lawrence Times website went down Friday morning, April 17. Our friends at Wildman Web Solutions helped us diagnose the problem, and they're hard at work to get us back up and running. We don't yet have an exact timeline.

In the meantime, we've put together this makeshift website to maintain as many of our essential operations and reader services as we can, including our reporting. You can find our latest news, events, job listings and advertisements here.

Here's what you need to know right now: 

Nothing will stop us from publishing the news. 

Our resilience knows no bounds. We will find a way to get the word out and continue doing what we've done since we launched five years ago. That's why we're here. 

You can reach this temporary website by visiting LKSTimes.com. (Once our normal website is back online, that URL will get you to the regular webpage instead.)

The best way to make sure you get word when we're back to our normal site is by signing up for our email newsletters. You can do so at this link or through the form at the bottom of this page. 

If you need to reach our team, the best way to contact us is by emailing us at Hello@LawrenceKSTimes.com. You can also fill out the contact form below or at this link. 

Everything published here will be migrated to our normal website as soon as possible once it's back online. We will also make a consistent effort to archive our articles when they're published to ensure that if we face any future outages, you can still access our latest work in some form.

In the meantime, we might be able to help you access archived versions of older articles and photos using the Wayback Machine. There's a form below if you'd like to request our help to find something we've published.

How you can help: 

We've been trying to spread the word via our email newsletters and our social media accounts, but our primary way of reaching people is via our regular website, so this has been difficult. We're also responding to emails as quickly as we can to let folks know what's going on. If you hear from other Times readers who are confused about what's going on, please let them know we're still here and we'll be back to normal soon. 

We truly need your support now more than ever. Current paid subscribers' subscriptions will continue to be billed as usual through our secure third-party billing system. If you have any questions about this, please reach out via email at Hello@LawrenceKSTimes.com and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. 

If you'd like to send us a check to support our news team's ongoing work, please mail checks made out to The Lawrence Times to Mackenzie Clark, The Lawrence Times, P.O. Box 442460, Lawrence, KS 66044. 

We can accept payments via our online billing system as well if you would like us to send you an invoice for a contribution. Just email us at Hello@LawrenceKSTimes.com and let us know what you'd like to do.

This temporary website doesn't allow us to publish ads in the usual way, but we do have all of our current advertisements posted here. You can check those out on this page.

Most importantly, please keep believing in us. We've faced many challenges but we've always kept going, and that's not going to change. 

Thank you for your support and readership! We will continue reporting fearlessly and holding people in power accountable, no matter what obstacles arise. 

 — Mackenzie Clark, reporter and founder, and The Lawrence Times news team

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