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BLATS FROM THE PAST Student’s horn holds generations of family history
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who writes an online blog about “fashion, online shopping and body positivity,” contacted police. Gronback told police she received numerous pictures of Dowdell’s penis on her Instagram account, according to the arrest affidavit filed in Douglas County District Court. Though Gronback blocked Dowdell’s account to stop the
Caleb Christopher answered his home phone in the middle of the day this week. That by itself is unusual for someone who both works full time and is running for a seat in the Kansas Legislature. But while his job as an IT manager keeps him very busy, the Basehor resident said he’s not putting too much energy into his legislative race. “I’m mainly just providing an option for people,” Christopher said this week. “I’m a really busy guy. But I’ll Traditionally be happy to serve if when people I get to that are unhappy point.” Christo- with the pher, who major lives in candidates, Basehor, is one of 15 third party candidates candidates w h o s e look pretty names will good.” appear on Kansas ballots for — University of f e d e r a l , Kansas political state and scientist Burdett local races Loomis this year under the Libertarian Party ticket, a party that has only been organized in Kansas since 1992. And while he’s not actively raising money or spending a lot of time knocking on doors, campaigning for people’s votes, Christopher thinks he and other Libertarian Party candidates could make significant showings this year by tapping into what many observers say is widespread frustration with the current state of politics and government in the United States. “Generally, the people that I talk to, both those that are voting for the two major
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ackson Green has always appreciated old things. A recent haul from his grandparents’ house — the couple had just recently moved into “an old people’s home,” the 11-yearold explains — yielded a fresh haul of antiquities, among them a piano and a rotary phone. “I like old things,” he says, “mainly because my parents will let me take them apart.” But Jackson, who just started sixth grade at Liberty Memorial Central Middle School, is also the proud owner of another relic from days gone by — one that he has the good sense to never dissect or otherwise tinker with. “This,” he says, holding a rather rare instrument of some years in his arms, “is staying intact.” The object in question is a French horn that has remained in Green’s family through four generations and counting, passed down lovingly from his late great-grandfather to his grandmother, who gifted her son, Kevin Green, with > HORN, 2A
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JACKSON GREEN, A SIXTH-GRADER AT LIBERTY MEMORIAL CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL, represents the fourth generation of his family to play the same silver French horn. Green, who is pictured Aug. 25 at the school, plans to pass the horn to one of his children some day.
Police say man harassed more than just New Zealand blogger By Conrad Swanson cswanson@ljworld.com
A Lawrence man accused of harassing a New Zealand blogger online also sent sexual pictures to other people, police say. And when the blogger, Rachel Gronback, asked for an apology, she received a halfhearted response, according to court documents filed in Doug-
las County District Court. So she called the police. A subsequent investigation found that the social media accounts of the man had been blocked more than two dozen times by other users, according to information in a recently released arrest affidavit. Police discovered that the man, Kalim Akeba Lloyd Dowdell, “sent sexually explicit messages to several people”
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using multiple social media accounts “on several occasions,” the affidavit says. Dowdell, 19, was arrested on Aug. 5. He was booked into the Douglas County Jail and later released after posting a $1,000 bond. He currently faces a single misdemeanor charge of harassment by telecommunications device. The criminal charge was filed eight months after Gronback, 31,
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