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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 21, 2011
Page
4
The Lawrence City Hall agenda lists a 6:35 p.m. meeting on Tuesday at Sixth and Massachusetts with meeting documents available online at lawrenceks.org on Enology Channel 25.
City commissioners plan a major waterline replacement project near downtown and will direct staff to receive bids for the work. The initiative aims to modernize the system, improve service, and reduce maintenance costs over time.
The city will seek bids to replace aging waterlines on Ninth Street from Tennessee to Vermont and on Kentucky Street from 12th to 19th. Ninth Street line dates to about 1915. parts of Kentucky line from 1886. No additional easements needed. Traffic remains but left turns restricted. Work starts July and should finish by year end.
The consent agenda includes May 17 minutes approval, board and commission minutes, claims, licenses, and mayoral appointments. It also sets June 7 bid dates for the 2011 Overlay Program and the 2011 KLINK project on West Sixth Street, with related lane changes. A new Youth Sports Complex restroom purchase for 67,490 dollars is approved, plus a mortgage release for Christine Lanier. Community signs requests from St John the Evangelist Church and First Southern Baptist Church are considered. Regular items include a right of way and ITS funding decisions, 23rd Street Bridge real estate actions, and a June 14 bid date for water main work on Ninth and Kentucky streets.
Jurors found Galloway caused injury to Officer Jonathon Evinger during a Feb 26 arrest near 26th and Iowa, but did not convict on the top charge of intentional aggravated battery. He faces a prison range of 38 to 172 months plus kicks on related charges, with sentencing set for June 27. Officer Evinger remains off patrol due to the concussion and vision impact.
The Ellsworth discharge left shelves, rugs and lamps shelving the scene as ReStore recycles 540 pounds of scrap metal from broken appliances and gathers book shelves futons and rugs for resale. Students carry boxes suitcases and electronics outside Ellsworth Hall while Maddy Finch recycles cans clothes and paper from old homework notes as she faces her first year of college ending.
A 34 star Civil War era Lincoln Flag from Kansas University professor Dennis Dailey will be shown Friday at the Eldridge Hotel 701 Mass. from 5 to 8 pm along with Civil War items as part of Final Fridays in Lawrence. The event is free and open to the public. KU steam whistle malfunctioned Friday after a lightning strike, sounding at about 9 30 am and remaining on until it was shut off. workers will inspect it after the weather clears.
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