KU Expands Recycling Bins Across Campus
Kansas University plans more recycling in offices and rooms. The Office of Resource Conservation & Recycling has installed 55 blue recycling center bins in 30 campus buildings for paper and beverage containers. RCR collects from 100 offices in 30 buildings and other dorms. future campus-wide office pickups require funding with plans for at least one bin in every academic or administrative building.
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RCR
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Multi-vehicle crash blocks Kansas Turnpike west of Lawrence
A five mile westbound backup occurred after a five twenty p.m. collision in a construction zone between Topeka and Lecompton. Patrick Watson’s 1994 Saturn hit Claudette Menefee’s 1990 Toyota causing a chain reaction involving a 1990 Mercury and a 1998 Honda. No injuries reported and two hours to clear. Separate incidents include Philip Pacheco’s Jeep rollover near Eudora with hospital transfers.
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Kansas Turnpike
Lawrence
Topeka
Lecompton
Patrick Watson
Kansas City
Claudette Menefee
Matthew Huff
Pittsburg
Sarah Schlicher
Philip Pacheco
Olathe
Overland Park Regional Medical Center
Sriday
Marriage Licenses and Births in Lawrence Area
A list of marriage licenses issued includes numerous pairs from Lawrence and neighboring cities such as Ottawa and Topeka, with names including Rossi Hvererias and Redney Holladay, Shadra Dee Annett and Robert Clayton Preyer II, and others. A birth is recorded for a boy to Mr. and Mrs. Mike Bray of Lawrence on a Friday.
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Rossi Hvererias
Olathe
Redney Holladay
Lawrence
Randy
Luckey
Mary E. Jutz
Kimbeltman Banning
Glenn Renard Boltmann
Poh Sim ‘Tan
Paul Tam Phian
Topeka
Shadra Dee Annett
Robert Clayton Preyer II
Tan Seak
Gregg Anderson Warner
Emily Suzanne Fry
Bradley David Walton
Amber
Showalter
Ottawa
James Dflerron
Tammy Sanchez
Greg Reed
Shannon E. McCawley
Wayne E
Brandon Jr
Diane Marty Mattligly
Randy Wilson Lewis
Lawrence Tressa Madi
Danny Spates
Mike Bray
Lawrence Datebook Highlights Community Events Today
Eggs and Issues breakfast with area legislators at the Holidome 200 McDonald Drive. Earth Day celebration in Watson Park Seventh and Tennessee with tables and poster contest. Eggstravaganza Egg Hunt at South Park. Student recital at Spencer Museum of Art Kansas University. El Papaturro Friendship Committee benefit concert at Lotus Restaurant 811 Mass. Submit items to Datebook by phone mail or email.
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McDonald Drive
Lawrence Cohousing Group
Lawrence Ave
Idir
Watson Park
Seventh
Tennessee
Datebook
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Lawrence
Ijworld.com
Ian Lawrence
Lawrence High and Paola Duel in Topeka High Q Final
Lawrence High School faces Paola High in a taped High Q match in Topeka with WIBW 10 30 a m and KTVU 6 30 p m Sunday. Lawrence won 6A prelims and beat Bishop Carroll and Olathe South in finals, Paola placed 5A third after top 16 advance. Participants include Mike Bateman Jasmineon Bill Kinnersley Jay Wiesner and Mike Ryu. coach Art Sloan.
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Lawrence
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Valley Heights High
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Jameson
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Jay Wiesner
Mike Ryu
Art Sloan
Tenant activist sentenced for drugs at Gaslight Village
Lawrence woman Debra Housworth, 29, longtime spokeswoman for tenants at Gaslight Village, was sentenced Friday to 24 months community corrections for January felony counts of sale and possession of cocaine. She was not living at the park when charged last year and has been an outspoken opponent of evictions tied to a planned Home Depot development.
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Lawrence
Gaslight Village
Mobile Home Park
Housworth
Violent outburst by 11 year old student at Centennial School
Police arrested an 11-year-old after he hurled objects at two teachers and threatened to shoot one. Officers took him to a juvenile detention center after he resisted in a time-out room. Authorities say threats also appeared at Free State High School and Broken Arrow School this week.
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Centennial School
George Wheeler
Lawrence Police Department
Wheeler
Lawrence
Free State High School
Overland Drive
Broken Arrow
Tenant advocate attends Lawrence city meetings this year
Es Easy spoke at Lawrence City Commission meetings to advocate for tenants and has helped organize tenant gatherings addressing the issue this year.
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Lawrence City Commission
KU Police investigate Hashinger Hall bomb threat
KU Police say a student found a bomb threat checklist on the sixth floor bathroom of Hashinger Hall about 5 a.m. Thursday. The form suggested a bomb under the sixth floor but was believed to be a prank with no named suspect.
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Kansas University
Robert Linzer
KU Police Department
Hashinger Hall
Linzer
Probation Hearing Delayed in KU Theft Case
Constance Conboy, a former Kansas University employee convicted of stealing 15000 dollars by falsifying employment information for nonexistent staff in the Office of Minority Affairs, had her probation violation hearing postponed to 2 p.m. May 12 after her attorney coordinated with the district attorney.
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Constance
Conboy
Douglas County
Office of Minority Affairs
Craig Stancliffe
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