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City to review Wakarusa roundabout plan By Rochelle Valverde rvalverde@ljworld.com
Lawrence city commissioners at their work session today will review reconstruction plans to add another two-lane roundabout to Wakarusa Drive. Commissioners will review a summary of next year’s capital improvement project for
the intersection of Wakarusa Drive and Harvard Road. The summary includes the design concept for the project, which calls for a roundabout at the CITY Wakarusa-Har- COMMISSION vard intersection and about 200 feet of
reconstruction to the adjoining street, an area that City Engineer David Cronin said is in poor condition. “We’re going to try to focus on doing this intersection first before we get farther to the north,” Cronin said. “We’re doing the project primarily because the street is in failing condition, and we’re out there doing annual
maintenance work with some of the pavement failures that we’ve had.” The new Wakarusa-Harvard roundabout will be identical to the one completed at the nearby intersection of Wakarusa Drive and Inverness Drive, Cronin said. That roundabout is
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School board approves budget By Joanna Hlavacek jhlavacek@ljworld.com
The Lawrence school board on Monday unanimously approved its 2016-2017 budget plan, which includes cuts to the district’s teaching staff and its property tax rate. As part of the newly approved budget, 17 full-time teaching positions will go unfulfilled in Lawrence classrooms; however, all but three were vacated through retirement or resignation. The cuts, which also include a SCHOOLS districtwide nursing position, will save the district about $987,000 collectively — a move deemed necessary by school board members at last month’s meeting because of inadequate state funds.
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ABOVE: LILLIE OKWUONE, HUMAN SERVICES COORDINATOR with East Central Kansas Economic Opportunity Corporation (ECKAN), works Monday to sort through a section of a long table covered with about 1,000 pairs of shoes that will be distributed to Douglas County students from low-income families. About 30 volunteers spent the morning and afternoon at the former Borders building, 700 New Hampshire St., sorting through donated school supplies and stuffing backpacks that will also be given away to students of registered families. The giveaway is a coordinated effort by the Salvation Army, ECKAN, the United Way, Penn House and Lawrence Rotary Club. BELOW LEFT: A colorful box of mechanical pencils waits to be added to backpacks. BELOW RIGHT: Volunteers Kelley Daniels, 14, and Sue Schmidt, of Baldwin City, add containers of Play-Doh to backpacks going to kindergartners.
Police: Boy suffered fatal neck injury on waterslide By Jim Suhr Associated Press
Kansas City, Mo. — A Kansas waterslide billed as the world’s tallest remained off-limits Monday as authorities pressed to figure out how a state lawmaker’s 10-year-old son died of a neck injury while riding it. Details remained murky about what happened Sunday to Caleb Thomas Schwab on the 168-foot-tall “Verruckt” — German Caleb T. Schwab for “insane” — that since its debut two years ago has been the top draw at Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City, Kan. Kansas City, Kan., police issued a statement late Monday afternoon saying that Caleb suffered a fatal neck injury around 2:30 p.m. while
Distribution info Supplies will be distributed at the old Borders location, 700 New Hampshire St., from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday and from 9 a.m. to noon Friday. Those who have not yet registered are encouraged to call the Salvation Army, 843-4188, to be placed on a waiting list.
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