What was your favorite part of going back to school
At Dillons on Massachusetts Street Joanna Hlavacek asks shoppers about school return memories. Respondents mention seeing friends, excitement for new teachers, and curiosity about new classes as favorites while seeking views on least favorites.
15 TODAY and Saturday events in Lawrence area
A guide lists events for Saturday including 15 TODAY markets and performances at Columbus Hall and Signs of Life, a blood drive in Lawrence, farmers markets in Perry and Eudora, bingo night at Eagles Lodge, a Card Table Theatre show, and multiple Saturday activities at Watkins Museum of History and nearby venues with tours, talks, concerts, and community gatherings.
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Columbus Hall
E. 23Rd St
Mike Shurtz
Massachusetts St. Lawrence
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Maine St. Perry Lecompton
U.S. Highway 24
Ferguson Road
FastTrax
Perry
Watkins Museum of History
Massachusetts St
Quantrill
Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
Chris Sutton
Kansas Colored Infantry
Kaw Valley
E. 11Th St
Watkins Community Museum
Lawrence Arts Center
New Hampshire St
Americana Music Academy
Royal Crest Lanes
Iowa St
KU Natural History Museum
Jayhawk Blvd
The
Illuminati
KU Law ranks No 18 on National Jurist best value list
Kansas University School of Law enters the National Jurist best value top 20 at No 18 after missing the list last year. Dean Stephen Mazza says the ranking reflects value beyond tuition, noting graduates’ career prep. The school also appears among top 25 percent of schools whose 2013 graduates joined large firms. National Jurist uses employment, tuition, debt, and bar pass rates in its calculation.
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Kansas University School of Law
National Jurist Magazine
Stephen Mazza
National Law Journal
National Jurist
Health Care Access director steps down amid transition in Douglas County
Board president Scott Swedlund declined to discuss Wakeman’s departure. Wakeman, ex-deputy executive director of Legal Aid of Western Missouri, became executive director in February 2013 after Nikki White left Health Care Access. Interim director Kim Polson noted ongoing collaboration with Just Food, Visiting Nurses Association, and shelters to serve about 2,500 uninsured Douglas County residents yearly amid evolving Medicaid expansion debates.
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Scott Swedlund
Wakeman
Douglas County
Legal Aid
Western
Missouri
Nikki White
Access
Baldwin City
Lawrence
Douglas
Just Food
Visiting Nurses Association
Lawrence Community Shelter
Independence Inc
America
Kansas
Polson
Signs on Bob Billings Parkway delayed to 2015
Sound Off questions why 2014 construction signs on Bob Billings Parkway from Wakarusa Drive to Foxfire Drive were removed. The city postponed the project until the 2015 season and plans pavement reconstruction with bike lanes. Call 832-7297 or email soundoff ljworld.com.
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Bob Billings
Wakarusa Drive
Foxfire Drive
Births in Kansas: Mayse, Watkins and Burggraf families
Ossie births report a boy for Christina and Kyle Mayse of Tonganoxie on Wednesday, a girl for Kirsten and Patrick Watkins of Lawrence on Thursday, and a boy for Nicole and David Burggraf of Lawrence.
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Christina
Kyle Mayse
Tonganoxie
Kirsten
Patrick Watkins
Lawrence
Nicole
David Burggraf
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MPH
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