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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 2012
Page
5
City officials expect Iowa Street traffic will ease after the South Lawrence Trafficway opens, with truck traffic south of 23rd Street likely to drop. Estimates of percentage reduction were not provided, and north of 23rd Street will remain a north south U.S. Highway 59 corridor.
Jennifer Van Nice, a claims adjuster in Lawrence, says she closes doors to make a room smaller and uses a thick blanket. Jack Pendry, a student, notes living in an old house and uses makeshift window sealers like hair dryers on the sill to reduce drafts.
Douglas County Public Works will open North Sixth Street at 5 p.m. Friday marking substantial completion of a 2.18 million project that added a turn lane curbs and gutters from US 56 to Douglas County Route 12. Remaining work includes seed mulch fertilizing signs sidewalk backfill and a 25 mph construction speed limit until finished. Two way traffic returns with two lanes open while final tasks wrap up.
Lawrence resident Donald L. Varnau, wearing a helmet, was hit by an SUV at the 11th Street Kentucky Street intersection around 3 15 p m Tuesday and airlifted to Kansas University Hospital in critical condition. The SUV driver William J Wozniak 20 of Dellwood Minnesota showed no impairment and no ticket was issued. Police seek eyewitnesses and urge calls to 832 7509. A separate AP brief notes Gov Brownback creating a 12 member task force to curb Kansas childhood poverty with state department secretaries and the governors wife as adviser.
A 19 year old Haskell Indian Nations University student was charged Tuesday with aggravated sexual battery and criminal trespass after an alleged Monday morning assault on a female student on campus. Bond set at 12,500, potential prison up to 136 months. Court later ordered a trial for January 9 with a $75,000 bond in a separate case.
Lawrence births include Michael and Megan Williams a boy and Austin and Elissa Koelling a boy with Lisa Chieu and Johnny Mai a girl Deborah Parkins a boy with another birth listed Wednesday in Lawrence observers note.
The Journal-World states its policy to correct significant errors brought to editors. Readers are invited to report errors by calling 785 832 7154 or emailing news ljworld com.
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