Visiting rules tighten at LMH amid flu spike
Lawrence Memorial Hospital enforces mask mandates for all patient visitors and staff after a rapid rise in influenza cases. Restrictions target immunocompromised patients and discourage visits by children and adults with weakened immune systems. Eight influenza A hospitalizations and 34 cases in five days prompted the measure.
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Lawrence Memorial Hospital
LMH
Julie Robbins
BSN
New Yoga Beginner Faces Flexibility Hurdles at Home
A writer chronicles starting yoga after five years of inactivity. Through YouTube workouts and a beginner course with instructor Jay Hester of the Yoga Center of Lawrence, they confront stiffness and balance limits, learning progress comes with patience and proper guidance.
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Lawrence
Jay Hester
Yoga Center
Massachusetts St
Hester
Alternatives to high school AP exams Kyra column
This column argues for reform in AP courses highlighting the author’s experience with six and a half AP classes and a view that exam prep overshadows actual learning. The writer likens AP and ACT prep to a game show and notes a friend accepted to Harvard critiquing how such classes reward certain students.
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Kyra
Wes
College Board
Harvard
Debating AP Integration in Regular Classes and Accountability
The piece argues AP material in standard instruction boosts rigor but risks widening gaps between AP and non AP tracks. Educational leaders warn of teaching to the test and revenue-driven motives, urging parents and students to think critically before embracing policy shifts.
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Denise Pope
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Kyra
Health Department offers sex ed classes for Kids
Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department invites parents to participate in Kids Need to Know, a five week program for fifth and sixth graders. The course covers body parts puberty pregnancy childbirth and STDs with emphasis on decision making. Sessions include a parents night and weekly parent child classes. Girls class runs Tuesdays Feb 3 to Mar 3 7 9 p.m. at Community Health Facility 200 Maine St second floor. Boys class runs Thursdays Mar 26 to Apr 23 7 9 p.m. at 200 Maine St second floor.
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Lawrence-Douglas County
Health Department
Maine St
Sue McDoneld