Baldwin City considers community center plans and CIP items
Baldwin City Recreation Commission presented conceptual plans for a new community center with two basketball courts a second story running track a four lane indoor pool and a cardio weight room The project could cost 45 to 55 million and would require bond funding pending voter approval The council also eyed four other CIP items including a theater renovation at Lumberyard Arts Center a City Hall redo a public works facility and a new police station Two work sessions are set for April 21 and 24 at the Baldwin City Library to discuss these items with budget talks upcoming.
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Baldwin City Council
Baldwin City Recreation Commission
Steve Friend
Friend
Baldwin School Board
Baldwin City
Lumberyard Arts Center
CIP
Baldwin City Library
Alamo Battles Castleman and Hodgkin Cancer Fight
Alamo faced a six month diagnostic odyssey with Castleman disease and Hodgkin lymphoma, underwent chemotherapy at Lawrence Memorial and KU Hospital, shaved her head in a bid for control, and drew strength from husband support and WOW 6 News colleagues who rallied around her. Now cautiously optimistic, she stays vigilant for recurrence and plans future advocacy with St. Jude and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
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Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Kansas University Hospital
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha
Alamo
Castleman
LMH
Pennsylvania
Kansas University
WOW 6 News
St. Jude
The
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
KU Clery Report Highlights Campus Crime and Fires
Excerpt from Sara Shepherd's Heard on the Hill column summarizes 2014 Clery crime data for Big 12 schools with KU reporting high domestic violence cases, one campus murder at Texas Christian, and multiple aggravated assaults. It notes fires in KU dorms mostly due to cooking mishaps and no human injuries in the past three years.
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Virginia
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Texas Tech
K-State
Baylor
Texas Christian
Texas
West Virginia
Iowa State
Clery
Kansas
Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access
Sara Shepherd
Ljworld.com
Science Olympiad teams fly past limits with rubber band plane
Eudora's Science Olympiad team trains after school to design a rubber band powered plane and a Rube Goldberg style launcher for air trajectory. Students like Durkin Reese and Shain push beyond class work seeking engineering futures while facing uncertain competition layouts and high stamina demands. Materials include pulleys weights tubing and a compression canister to control launch distance and weight bounce.
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Shain
Durkin
Splichal
Barbie Hartwell
EHS
Joe Pickett
Eudora
Phillip Pyle
Melanie Reese
Reese
Pyle
Westar faces ROE cuts and new tariff raising bills
Kansas regulators and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission have shaped Westar’s return on equity from 11.3 percent toward 9.8 percent, with a $10 million refund and monthly bill impacts around 1.50 dollars. A new tariff increase of about 25 million dollars was ordered to take effect April 1, while approvals from KCC and FERC remain pending. Westar cites 1.3 billion dollars invested in transmission and wind-farm lines serving Wichita Kansas City Lawrence and Topeka. Merger talk looms as market speculates. Westar declines comment.
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Kansas Corporation Commission
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
FERC
Westar
KCC
ECC
Gina Penzig
Penzig
Samir Arif
Kansas
Wichita
Kansas City
Lawrence
Topeka
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Statehouse
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