Bronze World War I Eagle Remains Mark Campus Landmark
Kansas University museum exhibits director Tom Swearingen recalls a fateful morning near the Douglas Leavenworth line when vandals stole the WWI plaques from a 1929 bronze eagle that once stood beside Highway 2440. The statue was knocked from its base and later recovered by highway workers after a heavy fall.
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Tom Swearingen
Swearingen
Kansas University
Natural History Museum
Mud Creek Bridge
Douglas-Leavenworth County
Federation of Women’s Clubs of
Lawrence
Douglas County
Mud Creek
Earl Richardson
Journal-World Photo
Ku’s
Dyche Hall
Leavenworth-Douglas County
KU Museum of Natural History
KU weighs Robinson expansion amid recreation facility debate
KU students voiced concerns over Robinson Center expansion options as a campus survey plans to determine whether to add to Robinson, build a new facility, or pursue other options. The 1996 referendum would have raised recreation fees from 13 to 90 dollars per semester, prompting worries about costs and space while planners consider four to eight basketball courts plus weight rooms and potential impacts on tennis and sand volleyball courts.
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Kansas University
West Campus
Robinson Center
Kevin Yoder
Robinson
Yoder
Tom Waechter
Waechter
Robin
Danny Kaiser
Fec
Kaiser
Kansas State University
City officials weigh fireworks ban in Lawrence
Lawrence city commissioners rejected a move to refer fireworks restrictions to the Board of Fire Code Appeals. Some urged safety education while others defended current July 2 3 and 4 shooting allowances. Vendors and residents attended, debating liberty, safety, and local culture in city hall.
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Lawrence
Fire Code Appeals
Bob Moody
John Nalbandian
Nalbandian
Moody
Erv Hodges
Marty Kennedy
Kennedy
City Hall
Scott Morgan
Morgan
Inverness Drive
Officials to lobby state for 6th Street
Lawrence city commissioners want the state to fund the entire 1.25 mile Sixth Street rebuild from Wakarusa to the South Lawrence Trafficway. Preliminary cost estimates reach 6.6 million with 2 million already pledged by the state. They will push for a state highway bill to cover remaining costs and delay an November election.
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Lawrence
Sixth Street
Wakarusa Drive
Kansas
Sixth
Wakarusa
South Lawrence
KDOT
Bob Moody
Ment of Transportation
Kansas Highway Patrol Tests Aerial Speed Trapping On K 10
Kansas Highway Patrol resumed an aerial speed enforcement program using a Cessna 182 and ground units on K 10 between Lawrence and Lenexa. Officers reported 21 speeding tickets and seven speed violation warnings during a two and a half hour window, with additional Lidar and moving violation tickets. A lawn mowing tractor in the median and unmarked vehicles supplement the effort to deter speeding on the busy corridor.
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Lawrence
Lenexa
Kansas Highway Patrol
Highway Patrol
Tom Wilson
Olathe Division
Kansas Department of Transportation
Wilson
Johnson County
KHP
KDOT
Son
Kansas City
Olathe Troop A
Kansas Highway 10
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