Body Venture health field trip boosts second graders
About 800 Lawrence second graders toured the Douglas County Fairgrounds on a districtwide Body Venture field trip. Denise Johnson notes the exhibit draws interest by letting students enter a giant mouth and travel through large organs to learn nutrition and wellness through activity, not just books.
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Long life journey led woman to a Haskell degree
Samantha Milk, named Haskell's 2017 Student of the Year, will join about 230 graduates at the commencement today. Her mother left the reservation for Kansas to pursue a degree at Haskell Indian Nations University while Milk and family lived at Lone Star Lake in tents before securing housing. Milk pursued environmental science after discovering GIS, embracing the field's broad applications and completing her bachelor’s degree.
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Amyx won’t seek another term for City Commission
Lawrence City Commissioner Mike Amyx, a fixture in local politics since the 1980s and owner of Amyx Barber Shop, says he will not run for re election. He remarks that the timing feels right after discussions with many people and notes his six terms as mayor and nearly twenty years on the City Commission.
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Leaders back away from full repeal of Brownback tax cuts
House Republicans on a tax conference committee Thursday backed away from a plan to vote on a bill that would fully repeal the income tax cuts championed by Gov. Sam Brownback in 2012.
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