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The Lawrence school board heard tonight about district staff’s efforts to recruit BIPOC staff, fill positions and more; plus updates on enrollment and a message about “devious licks” from the superintendent.
A Cordley Elementary school student was struck by a car Monday afternoon near 20th and Massachusetts streets, according to an email from the school principal.
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Burdett Loomis, known as “Bird,” died over the weekend at 76 after being a fixture on the Kansas political scene for decades.
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Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health has announced that it will soon offer a drive-thru clinic at LMH Health for COVID-19 vaccine booster doses for those who qualify.
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On one of numerous dates that Rontarus Washington Jr.’s case was once set to go to retrial, counsel instead met Monday to firm up deadlines and hearings leading up to a trial nearly 10 months away.
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A performer coming to the Lied Center on Thursday will bring music described as beyond categorization — “a world of its own.”
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The purple silky asters and the yellow blossoms of the Great Plains goldenrod await you at the Prairie Park Nature Center prairie, located southeast of 27th and Harper in Lawrence.
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The Lawrence school board on Monday will hear a report on recruitment and retention of BIPOC staff, consider reducing elective requirements for seniors this year and more.
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A few dozen people gathered Saturday for the rededication of the Wishing Bench in East Lawrence, but thoughts and memories of others who had touched and been touched by the bench filled out the bustling gathering.
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St. John’s Oktoberfest, in its 24th year, honored the memory of Goetz Berthold. He died at 92 in November 2020.
