City summer concert series kicks off in South Park
The Lawrence City Band opens its summer concert series in South Park at 8 p.m. in the gazebo William Kelly Band stand. Concerts run each Wednesday in June and July, free of charge, with broadcasts on KLWN 1320 AM. Directed by Robert E. Foster, tonight's program includes Mozart's Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, Gershwin's Strike Up the Band, and Webb's MacArthur Park.
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Lawrence City Band
South Park
Gazebo
William Kelly
Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department
Rice Foundation
KLWN
Robert E. Foster
Lawrence Extras Sought for Lenexa Film in 1988 Setting
Lawrence residents are invited to be extras for the independent film Lenexa 1 Mile to be shot in downtown Lenexa with a Lawrence Day casting effort led by Heather Laird. The 1988 era drama follows five friends during a last summer before college starring William Baldwin. Families may attend outdoor scenes. bring picnics and lawn chairs.
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Lawrence
Lenexa
Heather Laird
Laird
William Baldwin
Gasoline Price Finds Highlight Local Fuel Deals
The Journal-World reports fuel price checks with a low of 1.87 at Conoco Jayhawk Food Mart on Ninth Street and Presto Phillips 66 on Ninth Street. Readers urged to call Pump Patrol at 832-7154 if they locate cheaper gas.
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Journal-World
Conoco Jayhawk Food
Ninth St
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Records to be kept for Douglas County Bar Association
Kerry Altenbernd, a history art advocate and librarian at the Douglas County Law Library, begins compiling decades of bar association records to preserve the county’s legal history before it is lost.
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Bar Association
Kerry Altenbernd
Douglas County Law Library
Former Eldridge owner faces trial over police videotape
Judge binds Rob Phillips over for trial on criminal threat and misdemeanor battery after a Douglas County deputy was threatened and assaulted during an incident at the Victorian Veranda Country Inn on January 23. The videotape captured obscenities and threats including I’m going to shoot your … as officers arrived to calm him. A jury trial is set for September 21.
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Eldridge
Douglas County
Rob Phillips
David Melton
Clark Rials
Phillips
Rials
Lawrence Journal-World
6News
River study flags riverbed degradation will cost millions
Kansas River degradation costs millions and harms drinking water, power plant operations, and industrial growth across northeast Kansas. The Kansas Water Office urges further review of the Kaw, with the Kansas Water Authority to decide next steps. Environmentalists urge action, while sand dredgers warn against more study.
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Bill Snead
Journal-World File
Kansas Water Office
Kansas
Lawrence
Water Office
Earl Lewis
Kansas Water Authority
Laura Calwell
Mission
Friends of the Kaw
Kansas River
Edward
Woody
Moses
Birthplace of Rock Chalk chant tied to 150-year-old Lawrence home
Shelley Hickman Clark recalls stories of the 1743 Kent Terrace house in south Lawrence where the Rock Chalk Jayhawk chant allegedly began. The home, built in 1855 by Jim Savage for Spring Hill Farm, sits as a historic link to KU chemistry professor E. H. S. Bailey who created the chant later popularized as Rah Rah Jayhawk KU.
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Shelley Hickman Clark
Kent Terrace
Jayhawk
South Lawrence
Kansas University
Hickman Clark
Jim Savage
Vermont
New England Emigrant Aid Society
Ku’s
Science Club
Spring Hill Farm
Jay
E.H.S. Bailey
Bailey
Deadline looms for Lied Center fund-raiser
Kansas University officials race toward a 7.5 million goal to expand the Lied Center with an 800 seat auditorium and arts features. About 2 million has been raised so far, including a 1 million gift from Ross and Marianna Kistler Beach. The deadline is June 30 to unlock a second 7.5 million challenge grant from the Lied Foundation.
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Kansas University
Lied Center
Lied Foundation of
Las Vegas
Tim van Leer
Performing Arts
Dale Seuferling
EU Endowment Association
Ross and
Marianna Kistler Beach
Lawrence
City delays decision on use of housing trust
City commissioners defer spending remaining 570 000 in the Housing Trust Fund until a homeless issues task force delivers its report. The delay comes as they weigh affordable housing needs against potential new services for the homeless and related revenue implications.
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