Let your freaky Lawrence flag fly. Best of Lawrence 2021. Voting opens February 1.

New categories this year include: Orthodontic Practice, Cakes, Curbside Pickup (Restaurants), Drag King/Queen, Community Covid Response (group or organization) and more! Voting opens on February 1.

What's new in BOL for 2021? Besides our groovy Age-of-Aquarius theme design? New categories such as: Best Service/Working Animal, Best Food Delivery, Fan Favorite Jayhawk Athlete, Best Virtual Adaptation of Event ... and more.

Our ballot is live at midnight tonight (Sunday-Monday).

Voting is live and we are already adding our first write-in names to the ballot categories. Remember, some categories start out empty and we add in names only as nominations/votes are submitted.

It's Ducky the Lucky Dog (and a host of other fine animals) in our Social Media (Animal) category. Choose your favorite, nominate another animal with an established social media account, or vote in any of our other categories until Feb 28. bestoflawrence.com

The animal ambassadors of Prairie Park Nature Center have entered the ballot! Support them, or your other favorite community working/therapy animal in the Community section of the 2021 Best of Lawrence ballot.

We're entering the final week of voting in Best of Lawrence (closes midnight Feb 28), and the Social Media (animal) category is full of only good choices. (Pictured: Wombat)

Thanks to everyone who voted in the 2021 Best of Lawrence contest. We are now tallying votes and expect to announce Top-5 finishers for each category around March 15.

Top 5 finishers in each Best of Lawrence category are nos posted. Each category finishers listed in alphabetical order until the June Top 10 announcements. bestoflawrence.com

We’re out for a day of photo shoots with Best of Lawrence 2021 Top-5 Winners. Guess where?

Sigh. The scammers are here again. Out of state biz contacting Lawrencians to sell fake, overpriced Best of Lawrence Awards. Just to be clear...we give our award certificates for free and have official plaques and other merchandise at fraction of cost at bestoflawrence.com

Best of Lawrence Top-5 finisher placement will be announced online June 7-11. Best of Lawrence magazine releases June 13. And here's our 2021 cover.

#BestofLawrence Community section winners announcement begins at 10 am today ... on, you know, that other social media platform. But results will be posted here bestoflawrence.com

See the winners in the Community section for the 2021 #BestofLawrence lawrence.com/bestoflawrence…

If you missed the live broadcast of the Health & Fitness category awards, you can see the playback here: facebook.com/bestoflawrence… Congrats to all the winners!

Our 2021 digital edition is now online. Read it here. And if you are in Lawrence, you can still pick up a copy the Sunflower Publishing/LJ World office, 1035 N. Third St. issuu.com/sunflower_publ…

Voting for the nomination round of 2022 Best of Lawrence begins next week, April 25! bestoflawrence.com

Nomination voting has begun at bestoflawrence.com Nominations: April 25-29th Voting: June 5-11th Winners Bash: September 1st

All results for the 2022 Best of Lawrence are here in the Best of Lawrence magazine. Congrats to all the winners! issuu.com/sunflower_publ…