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‘We’re not just loading people on a bus,’ Lawrence’s homeless solutions director says
Questions have surfaced about the city’s policy to prioritize Douglas County residents with homelessness services — among them, how does someone without an address prove they live here? Here’s more about the policy, its purpose and how it’s played out over the last few months.
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Author Jacqueline Woodson to speak in Lawrence as library’s 2023 Ross and Marianna Beach Author
Jacqueline Woodson, an award-winning author and MacArthur fellow, will speak in Lawrence next month as the library’s 2023 Ross and Marianna Beach Author.
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Prosecutors seek to charge Lawrence teen as adult in shooting that left 14-year-old dead
The Douglas County district attorney’s office wants to try Derrick D. Reed, 17, as an adult in connection with an eastern Lawrence shooting that left a 14-year-old boy dead on Saturday, court records show.
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Ninth Street Missionary Baptist Church to celebrate 160 years in Lawrence
The message “We’re still standing” resonates among congregation members at Ninth Street Missionary Baptist Church in Lawrence as they prepare to celebrate the historical church’s 160th anniversary this weekend.
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Kaw Valley Almanac for March 20-26, 2023
Sycamore trees are easy to spot this time of year due to their white bark and tendency to grow along creeks and wet areas.
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Family launches fundraiser to help with funeral of Lawrence teen who was shot and killed
Kamarjay Shaw, 14, was “a wonderful young teen and a joy to anyone he came around,” according to an online fundraiser his family has launched to help pay for his funeral.
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Pinkney residents, preschool leaders concerned about plans for homeless shelter site
Residents of Lawrence’s Pinkney neighborhood and staff at a nearby preschool are questioning the site where the city plans to place a “village” for people experiencing homelessness, and how the project would be managed.
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Lawrence police: Suspect has turned himself in after boy shot and killed
A suspect in a shooting that left a Lawrence teen dead Saturday has turned himself in, police said in a Sunday afternoon update.
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Teen boy killed in shooting in eastern Lawrence
A 14-year-old boy has died after a shooting Saturday in eastern Lawrence, according to multiple sources.
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Cherokee Nation At-Large community meeting in Lawrence draws hundreds
Kansas City-area Cherokee Nation citizens gathered in record-breaking numbers in Lawrence Saturday for the first annual Chief’s picnic since 2019.
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Prairie Park Nature Center celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with Snakes and Scones
As the city celebrated St. Patrick’s Day this year, Prairie Park Nature Center leaned into one of the holiday’s quirkier themes with its “Snakes and Scones” event. Playing on the folktale that St. Patrick drove all the snakes out of Ireland in the fifth century, Dara Wilson, a snake handler and naturalist at the nature center, celebrated with an interactive session featuring snakes big and small.
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Public defender: Kansas faces crisis point on 60th anniversary of landmark U.S. Supreme Court case
A top public defender in Kansas says the state is at a crisis point on the 60th anniversary of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that guarantees legal representation for those who can’t afford to hire an attorney.
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A view of Lawrence: St. Patrick’s Day Parade returns to downtown
Community members bundled up for the Lawrence St. Patrick’s Day Parade on brisk Friday afternoon.
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Lawrence concert to celebrate 60 years of the right to defense counsel
Lawrence-area public defenders are celebrating and all are invited as Saturday marks 60 years since the court ruling that requires states to provide attorneys for people charged with felonies if they can’t afford to retain counsel.
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Developer seeks to annex land north of Rock Chalk Park to build 300-plus homes
A developer will ask the Lawrence City Commission on Tuesday to approve annexing and rezoning land north of city limits to build 300 or more market-rate homes.
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Lawrence City Commission to consider land purchase, zoning and code exemption for Pallet Shelter Village
Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday will consider a $725,000 land purchase, a contract for $1.11 million of temporary shelters for people experiencing homelessness, and a resolution suspending zoning and code enforcement on that property for a year.