Lawrence events fill community calendar with markets and theatre
Lawrence hosts farmers markets at 4 to 6 p.m. at 1020 Vt and 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. on New Hampshire, plus Perry-Lecompton Market 4 to 6:30 p.m. at Ferguson Road. Theatre offerings include EMU Ten-Minute Festival at Lawrence Arts Center and Cat Scratch Theatre with 10 plays, Trojan Women at Murphy Hall, and Spring Awakening reading by Summer Youth Theatre. Venel Lamarie leads Hands for Haiti at noon at Ecumenical Christian Ministries. volunteer information meeting 6 p.m. at Lawrence Public Library.
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U.S. Highway 24
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Local events include markets and readings around town
West Junior High farmers market at 2700 Harvard Road and Lawrence Farmers Market at 4931 W Sixth St run 4 to 6 pm. Library storytime at Lawrence Public Library 707 Vt 7 pm. The Raven Bookstore hosts Big Tent: Stories and Poems in Three Acts with Clancy Martin Rachel Gray Kevin Rabas and Amanda Frost at 7 pm. Michele LaRue performs Someone Must Wash the Dishes an Anti Suffrage Satire at Swarthout Recital Hall 7 30 pm.
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Murphy Hall
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Weekend break-in and related police reports in Lawrence
Prosecutors charged Marvin Stops Jr. with criminal trespass and criminal damage after a break-in on Clare Road. Bond set at 2500 dollars. A Lawrence man faces aggravated battery after a dispute on Alabama Street. Victim found with a possible broken nose. bond set at 4000 dollars. A 24-year-old Lawrence man reported theft of a laptop and game console from Best Buy on West 31st Street between 8 and 830 p.m. Friday. loss about 1648 dollars. An 86-year-old Lawrence man reported jewelry theft on Kasold Drive. incident window June 1 to July 14. loss about 3000 dollars. The Journal-World limits police report details per policy.
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Clare Road
Lawrence
Alabama Street
Kevin F. Begaye
Arizona
Best Buy
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Kasold Drive
Viloria and Nicoloff and Oleson Families Welcome Monday News
Jean and Rob Viloria of Lawrence greet a girl born Monday. Oscar and Nikki Nicoloff of Lawrence celebrate a boy born Monday. Mike and Christine Oleson of Eudora welcome a boy born Monday.
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Rob Viloria
Lawrence
Oscar
Nikki Nicoloff
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Christine Oleson
Eudora
Journal-World invites error corrections via phone or email
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Casino competition heats up in Sumner County Kansas
In Sumner County two towns Wellington and Mulvane clash over state owned casino plans. Global Gaming LLC seeks a Wellington exit 19 site with a $225 million project while Mulvane backs Peninsula Gaming and Harrah’s Kansas. Residents mobilize with postcards and supportive shirts as plans go to the Kansas Lottery Commission for review next month.
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Wellington Area
Kent Hixson
Mulvane Casino
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Peninsula Gaming
Kansas Cities Rule Higher Seat Belt Fines Than Law
Lenexa and other Kansas municipalities are enforcing higher penalties for not wearing a seat belt than the state law’s $5 cap. Lenexa imposes $60 total, $30 fine plus $30 costs, while other cities keep existing $30 fines. Traffic safety groups call it progress, while some lawmakers and residents object to higher costs.
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Kansas
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Kinzer
Sue Dickey
Death of Stephanie Culver 63 of Perry observed with service
A celebration of life for Stephanie Culver 63 Perry will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday at the American Legion in Perry. She died Friday Aug 20 2010 after a cancer battle. Born March 6 1947 in Kansas City Missouri she graduated NKC High School in 1965 and earned an education degree from Washburn University in 1984. She taught in the Perry Lecompton school district for 25 years retiring in 2009. She coached track and seventh grade football sponsored yearbook and cheerleading and led the Ronald McDonald project. Survivors include her husband Bill Culver two sons Curt and Chuck two grandsons four siblings and more. Memorials may go to the Stephanie Culver Memorial Fund care of Barnett & Lawrence Chapel Oaks Funeral Services.
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Chase
Steve Johnston
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Leawood
Denny Dow
Janis
Overland Park
Kathy
Danny
Murrieta
Calif
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Chapel Oaks Funeral Services
P.O. Box
Oskaloosa
Evelyn Kimball 93 Funeral Services Planned
Evelyn Lorretta Kimball, 93, of Lawrence, died Sunday August 22 2010 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Funeral services are pending and will be announced by Warren McElwain Mortuary.
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Lawrence
Warren McElwain
Kimball
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
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Planning commission recommends denial of Lowe's near Sixth and Folks
Lawrence Douglas County planning commissioners voted 8 to 2 to recommend denying a plan to build a Lowe's store at the Sixth Street Folks Road intersection. The meeting began Monday evening and ran for hours, ending just before midnight, with planning director Scott McCullough presenting the 8 2 recommendation.
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Sixth Street
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Scott McCullough
Man charged with shooting at car near 23rd Street
A 37-year-old Fairway man, Marc D. Conley, faces a felony charge of criminal discharge of a firearm at an occupied vehicle after a Sunday shooting near 23rd Street and Naismith Drive. He allegedly fired at a silver passenger car carrying a runaway 16-year-old girl and an 18-year-old Lawrence man, with no injuries.
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Lawrence
Study panel drafts plan to require ignition interlocks
A Kansas study commission advances a proposal to require first-time drunken drivers to fit ignition interlock devices for at least a year after license suspension of 30 days. The plan, supported by Mothers Against Drunk Driving, would adjust penalties by blood alcohol level and aims to guide legislative changes next year with a September or October draft review.
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Kansas
Special parking plan for KU football game at Memorial Stadium
Kansas University announces special parking plans and extra buses for the Thursday night game against Kansas State at Memorial Stadium. KU closes 12 parking lots near the stadium Wednesday evening and another nine areas including the northern parking garage will close to staff and public parking by 12:30 p.m. Thursday to reduce campus congestion.
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