District's playing fields up for city approval
Lawrence city commissioners will consider the school district's plan to build new athletic facilities at Lawrence High and Free State High School. Neighbors fear traffic, noise, light, drainage and environmental impacts and question funding. District officials discuss funding options aiming to avoid a tax increase. board review set for Sept. 22.
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City engineers win approval for signal management system
City engineers win approval for a 500000 dollar plan to install fiber optic cables and cameras atop traffic signals to coordinate Sixth Street and parts of Iowa Street. A traffic control center will monitor flows and adjust timings to ease congestion with no current plan for red light cameras.
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Ike toll and rescue effort across Gulf Coast states
In the largest Texas search and rescue effort, federal and local teams saved nearly 2000 people by Sunday night as Ike left many homes unoccupied. The death toll reached at least 28 with multiple states reporting fatalities, while Houston faced curfews, power outages, and closed schools. Galveston suffered outages of electricity and gas with widespread communications failure likely lasting a month.
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Storm surge hits Lawrence as gas prices rise
Hurricane Ike disrupts Gulf refineries causing a local gas price spike in Lawrence. Stations report at least 10 cent increases with regular gas averaging 3.595 across Kansas. Clerks describe rushes at pumps as owners warn prices may rise further amid nationwide price anomalies.
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Reporter Contact Line From Journal World Wire Services
Sophia Maines, reporter, can be reached at (785) 832-7173. Journal-World wire services contributed to this report.
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