City keeps homeless efforts after coordinator departure
Rochelle Valverde will oversee homeless efforts as Jenn Wolsey leaves the post on January 13. The city plans to keep funding the North Lawrence campsite and related programs, despite the coordinator’s exit and a December reversal of the campsite closure. City Manager Craig Owens confirmed the resignation and two weeks’ notice dated December 30.
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Jenn Wolsey
North Lawrence
Wolsey
Craig Owens
Should the rules be looser on historic preservation
Residents and leaders debate proposed changes to Lawrence Chapter 22 on historic preservation. The revision would loosen requirements around listed properties and alter development rules near them, seeking input on whether the modernization goes too far or not far enough since 1988.
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Lawrence
Lynne Braddock Zollner
Pipeline operator diverts Kansas creek to isolate spill
Canadian firm TC Energy has temporarily diverted a north central Kansas stream to isolate a four mile stretch fouled by the Keystone oil pipeline break. Benzene and related chemicals were found downstream but current levels do not threaten drinking water and no towns in the area rely on that creek. The company and its contractor are using water filled bladders to block the section and have bypassed it by pumping clean water upstream through a 1.2 mile hose that discharges downstream into the creek.
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TC Energy
Kansas
Mill Creek
Four city trees removed at Lawrence City Hall area
Lawrence officials cut four mature trees on East Sixth Street near City Hall. A pin oak near the four story building declined from iron deficiency and decay, an ash tree fell to emerald ash borer, and two Bradford pear trees were removed as invasive, with no immediate replacement plan but a move toward native species and wildlife-friendly plantings.
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Lawrence City Hall
East Sixth Street
Fike
City Hall
Journal-World
Lawrence
Plaza
East Sixth
New Hampshire Street
Bradford
Journal- World
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