City weighs $15 million price tag for new community center
Center Board outlined watch items from funding to governance amid plans for an eight gym facility with indoor track, turf field, weight room, and gymnastics area. KU partners likely, LMH wellness component eyed, Schwadas and Fritzel tied to ownership and build. Public forum planned with three minute slots.
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Downtown Lawrence to consider surveillance cameras plan
City officials discuss a grant to install downtown cameras with two or three units and fiber optic links. Police say monitors would focus on large events, with possible 48 hour footage storage for investigations. Downtown Lawrence Inc backs the plan citing public safety.
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Liberty Hall 100th Anniversary Street Closure Planned
City commissioners approved a street closure on the 100 block of East Seventh Street in downtown Lawrence from 1 p.m. to midnight on June 22 for Liberty Hall’s centennial celebration. Public parking on Massachusetts Street beside Liberty Hall will also close, permitting kids games live music and vendor sales. Alcohol may be sold in the public right of way during the event.
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City and County Back a Retiree Attraction Plan
City and Douglas County leaders backed creating a city county staffer to guide retiree recruitment and marketing. The final report from the Retiree Attraction and Retention Task Force urges a dedicated information portal and a strategy with marketing help funded perhaps by reallocated economic development funds and private partners.
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Venus Transit Draws Local Skywatchers in Lawrence
Venus Liu and Rick Heschmeyer joined observers at the Lied Center lawn to view a rare Venus transit. The event, visible for about three hours in the continental U.S., occurs twice every eight years but then not again until 2117.
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Venus Transit Inspires Awe At West Campus Viewing
Astronomers and students observed the rare Venus transit with 3-D viewing and protective measures. Volunteers described the event as magical and enlightening, illustrating our small place in the universe and marking eight observed transits since telescopes existed.
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Kansas to resubmit Medicaid waiver request to feds
Kansas plans to resubmit a request to the federal government to overhaul its $2.9 billion annual Medicaid program. State officials say they will gather further input from Indian health clinics in Lawrence and White Cloud while maintaining plans to award contracts this summer to three private insurers to manage Medicaid starting January. The effort requires a federal waiver and public hearings are planned.
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Subscriptions and contact details for Lawrence Journal-World
Subscription and billing information for the Lawrence Journal World lists phone hours for delivery issues, redelivery guarantee, and official addresses. It notes publication by The World Company in Lawrence Kansas, with post office and circulation details and AP and ABC memberships.
Lottery Powerball Draw Saturday Numbers
Saturday's Powerball result lists numbers 9 10 17 29 45 with Powerball 33. No winner information provided.
Poll on tastings law and park naming in Lawrence
A Kansas poll asks if residents will attend winery tastings now allowed and if Lawrence should name a park at 19th Street and Haskell Avenue after former fire chief Jim McSwain. Results show 45 percent yes for the park name, 43 percent no, 11 percent not sure.
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