Street poll on Super Bowl winner on Massachusetts Street
Readers on Massachusetts Street weighed in on which team should win this year’s Super Bowl. The street poll asks for resident opinions, reflecting local sentiment and sports chatter.
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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 2013
Page
4
Readers on Massachusetts Street weighed in on which team should win this year’s Super Bowl. The street poll asks for resident opinions, reflecting local sentiment and sports chatter.
Justin Lee, a Paisano’s student employee, voices fatigue over constant Ray Lewis chatter, saying the 49ers topic is overexposed and worn thin by repeated discussion. The remark reflects ongoing annoyance with the omnipresent spotlight on the athlete.
City of Lawrence maps shows sealing of street cracks east and west of Monterey Way and north of Sixth Street with temporary lane closures. KDOT continues work on 23rd Street Bridge between Haskell and Barker, plus utility work and shoofly removal. Concrete rework on Nicklaus Drive Palmer Drive and Hogan Drive east of Inverness Drive. Traffic mostly open but possible street closings. Kansas 10 23rd Street traffic reduced to one lane in places. speed limit kept at 45 mph for 23rd Street O Connell Road intersection upgrades with turn lanes and new signal. Intersection work due by March 29. signalization by June.
The Lawrence Public Library Foundation will host a farewell of the 707 Vermont St. building on Sunday February 10 with doors at 2 p.m. Residents may walk through the empty structure and sign a wall. City leaders Mayor Bob Schumm and Commissioner Aron Cromwell will speak at 2 30 p.m. Light refreshments follow. The library currently operates from the former Borders at Seventh and New Hampshire until the $19 million project finishes in April 2014.
Kansas Department of Transportation officials say a sign on Highway 56 misstates distance to Lawrence, reading 14 miles while city limits are nine to ten miles away. The error is not a federal violation and will be corrected in the 10-year cycle. questions to 832-7297 or soundoff@ljworld.com.
Authorities responded to a one-vehicle rollover on US 59 two miles south of Lawrence near North 1000 Road. At 4:36 p.m. Saturday, EMS reported one person transported to Overland Park Regional Medical Center with nonlife-threatening injuries.
Lawrence couple Katy McCabe and Matthew Butterworth welcomed a son on Saturday.
An Associated Press correction notes the Journal-World misidentified Mark Tallman and his Kansas Association of School Boards affiliation in a Saturday report on public religious symbols.
Kansas study shows one in eleven Lawrence students read at grade level and nearly a quarter lack math proficiency. A 2011 Annie E. Casey Foundation report explains risk of dropping out. United Way of Douglas County partners with the district and Boys and Girls Club to boost elementary achievement, investing 405,468 dollars in 2012 to support kindergarten readiness and fourth grade outcomes.
The United Way funds two academic enrichment coordinators to help Boys and Girls Club and Lawrence school district implement Power Hour Kits. Retired teachers Becky Spradlin and Lynn Heffley design activities to extend learning after school for 1,200 students daily, aiming to raise test scores and close achievement gaps.
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