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Spouse would have to give up tenure, career to move here, he says By George Diepenbrock gdiepenbrock@ljworld.com
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IN THE DEAD OF WINTER, SUSAN SKEPNEK, of Lawrence, enjoys the luxuriant feel of her 70-degree greenhouse on Monday. Today’s forecast calls for 3 to 5 inches of snow. But, temperatures are expected to hit the 50s this weekend.
Crews ready to tackle streets again Robins abound, but spring feels far behind said Kelsey Angle, NWS meteorologist. Angle said the storm was coming to the area from the Rockies, and the snow should be heaviest this afternoon and this evening. Tom Orzulak, street divisions manager, said the city was preparing as it usually does for storms. “It’s the same stuff, different day,” he said. “It has to snow first.” Orzulak said he had a crew
By Brenna Hawley bhawley@ljworld.com
Lawrence is in for another snowy Tuesday this week, with the city expected to get 3 to 5 inches. The National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory for 6 a.m. today to 6 a.m. Wednesday. The advisory also says winds will be 10 to 20 mph. “(The storm) shouldn’t be quite as bad as the last one,”
ready to go at midnight. Despite this year’s storms, Angle said the region is below last year’s snow totals. He said by this time last year, Topeka had received 29 inches of snow. This year, the area is at 26. But relief is coming. Temperatures are expected to warm up to about 50 degrees by Sunday. One group doesn’t seem to mind the weather. Robins are abundant in the area, but birdwatcher Stan Roth says the Kansas weather is balmy to them.
“They’re migrants from the north,” said Roth, a birdwatcher and retired Lawrence biology teacher. “We seem to be getting lots and lots of robin flocks here in Lawrence.” He said the robins that are in Lawrence during the spring are in Texas now, and Lawrence started getting robins from the Dakotas and Saskatchewan, Canada, in October.
A deputy police chief in Wichita has removed his name from the list of finalists for Lawrence police chief. Tom Stolz said Monday that he had withdrawn his name from consideration, based mainly on the effect the state budget crisis is having on the prospect for teaching jobs. He said he visited with Lawrence and area school officials, who painted a bleak picture for being able to hire teachers in the next two years. Stolz’s wife, who teaches in the Renwick district west of Wichita, has been in the profession for 24 Stolz years. “After much thought and discussion, I will not ask my wife to give up her teaching tenure and career even to get what I deem to be the best chief of police job in the state of Kansas,” Stolz wrote in a letter to David Corliss, Lawrence’s city manager. Please see FINALIST, page 2A
Brownback dismantles Arts ‘The good, the bad’ of area history to be on display Commission — Reporter Brenna Hawley can be reached at 832-7217.
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Tourism leaders hope to open $200K exhibit in Carnegie building By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
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The usual cast of characters from Lawrence’s history will be there: William Quantrill, John Brown, Langston Hughes. But there may be a few you don’t often see, too, like the three black men who in 1882 were lynched and then hung from the Kansas River bridge as the crudest of warning signs. Such pieces of the area’s history will be part of a $200,000 exhibit that Lawrence tourism
leaders hope to open in the former Carnegie Library building at Ninth and Vermont streets this spring. “It will have the good, the bad and the indifferent,” said Judy Billings, director of the Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau. “We’re really hoping to provide an overarching introduction to the history of the area.” The exhibit is part of the city’s efforts to become the center of the new Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area, which highlights the role eastern Kansas and western Missouri
Measure is meant to save money, but critics say loss will be costly By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com
pean settlement, and one that highlights how the area has shaped the 20th century civil rights movement. Bill Tuttle, a former Kansas University professor and local historian who served on a group
TOPEKA — Gov. Sam Brownback on Monday signed an order to eliminate the Kansas Arts Commission and replace it with a private organization to raise funds. Brownback said the cost-cutting move would save taxpayers $600,000 in the next fiscal year, but the Arts Commission said its elimination would cost the state millions of dollars in lost matching funds and revenue generated by arts and culture. “As I said in my State of the State speech, the days
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played in the days leading up to the Civil War and beyond. “We hope people will come and see the exhibit and then will want more information and will go to other places throughout the area to get it,” Billings said. City commissioners on Tuesday will consider funding the project from money collected through the transient guest tax that is charged to hotel guests. The exhibit will include a section devoted to the area’s role in sparking the Civil War, titled “The Kansas Question.” But the exhibit also will include a section about the area before Euro-
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