Panel taps Sixth Street site for high school plan
Lawrence School Site Selection Committee chose an eighty acre Sixth Street Wakarusa Drive site as the preferred location for a second high school in a 16 9 vote. The panel ranked centrality to students and diversity goals, with Socioeconomic diversity noted for the 35th Street option. The board will review final report May 23 after one last committee meeting.
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Lawrence
Lawrence School Board
Sixth Street
Wakarusa
35Th
Iowa
Dan Watkins
35Th Street
Watkins
15Th Street
John Spurgeon
Lara Reduque
West Lawrence
Reduque
Wakarusa Drive
Sixth
Lawrence High School
Senators reject Indian gambling compact in Kansas City vote
The Kansas Senate defeated a compact sought by four Indian tribes to open a resort casino in Kansas City Kansas. Seven votes in favor. Burr abstained. one absent. Tribes may pursue federal court action, arguing good faith negotiations, while gaming on reservations remains unresolved.
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Yoreka (Or
Senate
Kansas City
Kan
Goune
Lance Burr
Anthony Hensley
Topeka
Jerry Karr
Emporia
Marge Petty
Dick Rock
Arkansas City
Gus Bogina
Shawnee
Janice Hardenburger
Haddam
Sandy Praeger
Lawrence
Kansas
Rock
Burr
Luther Wahwasuk
Fred Thomas
Iowa
Visit to Lawrence recalls wartime KU chancellor days
Ex chancellor Deane Malott 95 of Ithaca recalls KU wartime campus life during the 1940s while attending a memorial service for Eleanor Sisson Malott. He notes 24 hour programs and lanterned classes amid a postwar enrollment boom that added thousands of students and military training programs.
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Deane Malott
Kansas University
Malott
Kansas Union
Ithaca
Wn.y
Lawrence
Eleanor Sisson Malott
Nichols
Washington
Strong Hall
Navy
Brown v Topeka panel reflects on decades after ruling
Original plaintiff Linda Brown Thompson and fellow panelists at the First Christian Church reviewed the impact of the Brown decision. They noted progress in desegregation yet warned attitudes persist and deeper issues remain. The symposium, held with KU humanities groups, drew about 100 attendees.
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Linda Brown Thompson
Thompson
Brown Vs. Topeka Board of Education
First Christian Church
First Christian Church As Part of A Symposium Titled “Brown Vs. Topeka
She
Vivian Scales
Scales
Jesse Milan
Baker University
Milan
Lawrence
Brown
Bernie Norwood
NAACP
North Lawrence pipe blockage prompts pump to divert water
City workers on North Second Street set up a pump to bypass a debris clogged stormwater pipe near Lyon Street. Officials say a 20-foot repaired segment from years ago created a partial blockage that has not caused flooding yet, with repairs planned but not yet scheduled.
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North Second Street
North Lawrence
Lyon Street
North Second
Locust
Mike Wildgen
Bob Moody
Wildgen
Moody
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