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Douglas County community can now request COVID-19 vaccine clinics at businesses, events
Members of the Douglas County community can now request COVID-19 vaccine clinics at individual businesses and events, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health officials said Wednesday.
Theatre Lawrence
Theatre Lawrence continues safe-distancing summer shows
Theatre Lawrence is continuing its Summer Series of outdoor shows, which premiered last summer as a safer alternative to indoor shows during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jacquelyn Akins/Contributed
Family safe but resident fears half of duplex may be total loss after fire in Lawrence garage
No one was injured, but the resident of a duplex in the 1400 block of Maple Street fears that her side of the property may be a total loss after an overnight fire.
Black kids overrepresented among children ordered into Kansas foster care
A new report by state auditors confirmed overrepresentation of Black children in Kansas foster care and that Black and American Indian children in the system were less likely than white children to be reunified with their parents.
Mackenzie Clark / The Lawrence Times
Valdez, Sternberg: Why the Douglas County DA and a defense attorney took an extraordinary step in Sarah Gonzales-McLinn’s murder case (Column)
“Because this case is closed, we ethically can address misconceptions that have arisen from a misguided narrative based on supposition and speculation,” Douglas County DA Suzanne Valdez and defense attorney Jonathan Sternberg write in this column.
Letter to the Times: Show support for closing coal-powered plants
“Please show your support for closing the coal-powered plants and urge Evergy to use securitization funds to transition to renewable energy by sending your comments to KCC,” Kathleen Harned writes in this letter to the Times.
Douglas County
How a KU class and local advocates helped build an ADA-accessible platform at Wells Overlook Park
Thanks to a $44,000 state grant, Douglas County accessibility advocates, and help from a third-year architecture class at the University of Kansas, an ADA-accessible viewing platform is now complete at Lawrence’s Wells Overlook Park.
Kansas Holistic Defenders chair makes budget ask of Douglas County Commission
As Douglas County’s annual budget hearings began Monday, commissioners heard a funding request from a new nonprofit criminal defense office. Sam Allison-Natale, chair of Kansas Holistic Defenders, took questions about how the organization aims to improve outcomes and handling of misdemeanor cases in Douglas County.
Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector
Kansas officials urge vaccination as concerns intensify over Delta variant
Kansas officials are pleading with residents to get a COVID-19 vaccine and protect themselves from the dangerous Delta variant sweeping through the Midwest.
Ibram X. Kendi, author of ‘How to be an Antiracist,’ to give lecture at Lied Center
Ibram X. Kendi, the award-winning author of “How to be an Antiracist,” is set to give the Self Graduate Fellowship Symposium lecture, according to a Tuesday news release.
Jeff Burkhead via LMH
Victim suffers minor injuries in stabbing, Lawrence police say
A victim was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital with minor injuries after a reported stabbing […]
The Raven Book Store’s bestsellers for the week of June 29, 2021 (Sponsored post)
Fun fact: the top three bestsellers this week are also the top three bestsellers of 2021 so far, halfway in!
Recap: Lawrence school board meeting, June 28
The Lawrence school board on Monday heard an update on the budget process and an estimated deficit of $1.6 million, discussed a change to its meeting schedule and more.
August Rudisell/@KsScanner
Student protesters tell Lawrence school board that sexual assault victims have been silenced as abusers walk the halls
In a tense public comment period at the Lawrence school board meeting Monday, four students spoke out, asking for accountability for abusers and more protection for students and sexual assault survivors.
Contributed
Be ‘your most authentic and beautiful self’ at Coming Out Party Tuesday evening
All types of families are welcome and wanted at a Coming Out Party planned for Tuesday evening, the host says.
Drone Lawrence / dronelawrence.com
Explained: What coming changes to college athletics mean, and how they’ll impact Kansas universities
A new era of collegiate athletics will begin Thursday when several new laws across the country take effect allowing athletes to profit off of the use of their name, image and likeness.
August Rudisell / The Lawrence Times
3 cases of more contagious Delta COVID-19 variant confirmed in Douglas County
COVID-19 testing in Douglas County in the last month has uncovered three cases of the Delta variant of the respiratory virus, which is thought to be 60% more contagious than other iterations of the disease.
Contributed
eXplore Lawrence announces new executive director
After a short trial run, the interim executive director of eXplore Lawrence has been selected to take the position permanently.
U.S. Supreme Court affirms transgender rights in declining to hear school bathroom case
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it will not hear a case of a transgender student in Virginia who was barred from using the boys’ bathroom, a decision that affirms lower-court rulings that said treating transgender students differently violates federal law.
LarryvilleLife
A view of Lawrence: Owens Flower Shop mural progresses
A mural is underway at Owens Flower Shop, 846 Indiana St. LarryvilleLife snapped this photo of its progress Monday.
Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector
No need for term limits: Legislature’s turnover rate tops 80% in past decade
Only 27 of 165 Kansas legislators holding office in 2010 — a mere 16% — have been able to harness the desire, persuasiveness, money or luck to still hold seats in the House or Senate.
C.J. Janovy/Kansas Reflector
C.J. Janovy: What I learned on my pilgrimage to the U.S. Center Chapel in Kansas (Column)
C.J. Janovy writes about what she learned on her trip to Lebanon, Kansas, “site of the Jeep commercial in which Bruce Springsteen begged Americans to walk back their fury at each other and find common ground,” in her last column for The Kansas Reflector.
Ken Lassman
Kaw Valley Almanac for June 28 – July 4, 2021
Wildflower fireworks continue, including yellow black-eyed susans, red butter-fly milkweed and purple prairie clover. This Independence Day, celebrate by visiting a prairie near you to appreciate how everything is really delightfully interdependent!
Keep your ear on the ball: Beep Baseball engages sight-impaired athletes
Beep Baseball is a coed game adapted for visually impaired athletes. Its World Series will be played July 25-Aug. 1 in Wichita.
