Kennedy School Opens Space For East Heights Students
Kennedy School prepares to absorb 130 preschool students from the closed East Heights Early Childhood Center as part of a 4.6 million dollar district budget cut. The site will house a pre kindergarten to sixth grade program with new exits, door conversions, and updated plumbing and carpet costs totaling about 70 thousand dollars. Open house set for August 10 with school start August 11.
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City Nears 2011 Budget Approval
City commissioners will set 2011 spending limits as they seek a tax rate that stays flat while water sewer and trash rates rise. The plan also boosts employee pay slightly. County and school districts consider higher mill levies, pushing taxes higher for a $200,000 home.
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County budget hearings target 16.6 percent tax hike
Douglas County commissioners opened budget hearings reviewing seven department plans as they wrestle with a 69 million dollar draft that would raise property taxes by 16.6 percent. Administrator Craig Weinaug gathered ideas from department heads, but three elected commissioners decide initiatives and financing. The session covered psychiatry for Bert Nash Mental Health Center, a Watkins Museum director, private funding for new exhibits, and three new dispatchers.
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Longtime KU playwriting professor to retire after 21 years
Paul Lim, a Kansas University English professor, is retiring, ending his 21 year run with the English Alternative Theatre. Lim founded EAT in 1989 to foster student written plays and often staged works unseen by audiences. He earned a Kennedy Center honor for an early produced play and guided about 55 full productions and 100 readings during EAT’s tenure.
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Young pianists share second at KU NYM event
Frank Wu of Chicago and Chelsea De Souza of Mumbai tied for second at Kansas University's International Institute for Young Musicians. Aileen Gozali of Singapore finished third. no first prize awarded. Six finalists, including Eisele, Kim, and Ahfat, will perform at a 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday concert in Murphy Hall. Tickets cost 12 dollars for adults and 10 for seniors and students.
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Chicago
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India
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Greenwood Village
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Court upholds Club Axis parking ruling in Kansas
The Kansas Court of Appeals affirmed a Douglas County District Court decision that Club Axis at 821 Iowa must close or fix parking inadequacies to comply with the city code after multiple violence incidents linked to the venue. The club remained open for over a year without changes, and a 2009 injunction was filed. It has since remained closed and owners show no interest in reopening.
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