Enrollment up 2.6 percent at local schools
South Junior High reports 843 students, the most among junior highs, 40 more than last year. West Junior High gains 67 students to 730. portable classrooms due by Sept. 7. Principal Mick Lowe recovering from a summer heart attack. Bill Montgomery fills in. Sunset Hill shows 12.9 percent rise to 395 students, with five classes over 30 and planned paraprofessional help. district anticipates about 50 preschoolers not yet counted.
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South Junior High School
West Junior High School
Bill Montgomery
West
Montgomery
Mick Lowe
Lowe
Sunset Hill
Ken Rig
Enrollment by School Headcounts and Projections
Enrollment figures list current headcounts and year-ago counts for schools including Broken Arrow Centennial Cordley Deerfield East Heights Grant Hillcrest India Kennedy New York Pinckney Quail Run Riverside Schwegler Sunset ill Wakarusa Valley Woodlawn Central Junior High South Junior High West Junior High Lawrence High and related projections. Data shows current counts versus projected and prior year totals for each institution.
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Broken Arrow
Centennial
Cordley
Deerfield
East Heights
Grant
Hillcrest
India
Kennedy
New York
Pinckney
Quail Run
Riverside
Schwegler
Sunset Ill
Wakarusa Valley
Woodlawn
Central Junior High
South Junior High
West Junior High
Lawrence High
Trafficway land talks set for September
The project progresses with Nunnink & Associates handling appraisal and Lander Lake Corp managing negotiations for 89 parcels along the trafficway from Kansas Highway 10 to a new Turnpike interchange. Eight homes and one business face relocation, with priority in acquisition, while construction plans stay on track for bid in April and a September route walk by engineers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kevin K. Nunnink
Lawrence
John Pasley
Pasley
First day at Pickney Elementary kindergarten class
On Thursday 16 youngsters started kindergarten at Pickney Elementary School Pulliam welcomed them with music puppets and easing into a school system of rules. The children, though nervous, waved goodbye to new friends and teacher and began a new chapter in their lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kim Pulliam
Pickney Elementary School
Pulliam
Cooper Farr
Ashley Trevino
Kimala Dodson
Dakota
Crossing guard vows to return after mishap near school
Lawrence crossing guard Daniels, with five years on the job, said she may be out two to four weeks after a collision at Massachusetts and 19th. She credited luck and faith for no injuries to children and noted other posts at 15th and Haskell where she works. Sergeant Hadl had urged motorists to exercise extra caution near schools, prompting a Journal-World traffic safety story.
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Daniels
Lawrence
Massachusetts
19Th
15Th
Haskell
Susan Hadl
Hadl
Journal-World
KU schedules doctoral exams for Goossen and Luo
The University of Kansas posts final doctoral examinations. Rachel Goossen will defend Conscientious Objection and Gender: Women in Civilian Public Service During World War II in history at 10 a.m. Tuesday in 3097 Wescoe. Xiangdong Luo will defend Essays on Theoretical and Empirical Studies in Financial Markets in economics at 4 p.m. Friday in 102 Summerfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rachel Goossen
Wescoe
Xiangdong Luo
Summerfield
Multiple injuries in Kansas area accidents with several in fair condition
The report lists numerous individuals, ages from 6 to 82, injured in traffic and one lawn mower incident across Kansas. Names include Matthew and Jason Guthrie in fair condition at Children’s Mercy Hospital, plus Timothy Manis and Walter Deidge in critical or fair condition at different hospitals. Other patients include Ruben Martinez, Troy Goff, Ronald Ball, Michael Smith, Nicole Euson, Andrew Mitchell, and Orville Ray, with varied locations Lawrence, Lecompton, Baldwin, Topeka, and Wichita. Fire crews also responded to KU incidents and a fire at a townhome.
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Matthew
Jason Guthrie
Children’s Mercy
Penitas
Tex
St. Francis Regional Medical Center
Wichita
Globe
U.S. Highway 56
Baldwin
Troy Goff
Maple
Kansas University Medical Center
Kansas City
Kan
Naismith
Lawrence
Ronald D. Ball
Princeton
Midland Junction
Michael Smith
Kansas Highway
Nicole Euson
Kansas University
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Sunnyside
Summerfield Hall
Andrew Mitchell
Orville Ray
East 1500
Death notice for Leon Albert Jamison 88 Linwood
Deaths in Tonganoxie list Leon Albert Jamison 88 of Linwood who died August 26 1993 at his home. Funeral service at Quisenberry Chapel Tonganoxie today with burial in Mount Muncie Cemetery Leavenworth. Surviving are three sons Jim in Flagstaff Arizona and others.
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Tonganoxie
Leon Albert
Linwood
Kansas Farm Bureau
Fall Leaf Grange
Viola Henry
Leavenworth
Jim
Flagstaff
Ariz
Hospital Births and Library Summer Programs in Lawrence
The Mills family of Tonganoxie welcomed a girl born Friday with relatives listed in Eugene and Topeka among others. The Lawrence Public Library reminds children in the summer reading program to report all reading by next Friday, with preschool storytimes ending Friday and fall sessions starting the first Friday in October. The Thursday storytime for older children continues through September at 4 pm.
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Michael
Perry
Rick
Eugene
Dre
Lois Steves
Flagstaff
Ariz
Wilma Elder
Nancy Ezell
Lawrence
Martha Shaffer
Topeka
Norma Hunter
Tonganoxie
Dorothy Casey
Houston
Douglas County
Children’s Department
The
Lawrence Public Library
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Don
Rigdon
OUR Town
Wilynie
Somatanes Ld le
Cee Ard
Ed Zurga
Kansas
Law Enforcement
Lewis Hall
Dole Human Development Center
Leon Albert Jamison
Rick Mills
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