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Mike West sings during the 2014 Mardi Gras parade in downtown Lawrence.
A storm, a journey, a parade 10 years after Katrina, transplanted family still finds shelter in Lawrence By Conrad Swanson Twitter: @Conrad_Swanson
When Hurricane Katrina hit the nation’s southern coastline 10 years ago this week, musicians Mike West, his wife and bandmate Katie Euliss and their two children were on tour in Florida. With initial reports trickling in slowly and short of any hard information, West recalls, he and his family originally planned on making their way back to their home in New Orleans. Soon, however, news reports confirmed their fears, West says, as he and his family recognized a shot of their Lower
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THIS AERIAL VIEW SHOWS KASOLD DRIVE looking northwest as it elbows near the intersection with Harvard Road. There is talk among some city officials about plans to reduce Kasold from four lanes to two lanes between 14th and Eighth streets. By Conrad Swanson Twitter: @Conrad_Swanson
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uture construction plans for Kasold Drive include a potential “road diet” for the street, which hasn’t seen a significant increase in traffic over the past two decades, city engineers say. Currently there are two main options for a Kasold Drive construction project slated to begin sometime next year, said Lawrence City Engineer David
Engineers recommend lane reduction Cronin. The work involves a complete overhaul of the road stretching from Eighth Street south to 14th Street. “The two options are to reconstruct the street as we have typically done with a five-lane section,” Cronin said. “Another option, what we’re calling the ‘Complete Street Option,’ reduces the five lanes to three, including the center turn lane.”
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When Tyson Buhler packed last week for his trip to South Africa, his four suitcases contained some unusual mementos — a Kansas state flag, a photograph of his grand-
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parents’ farm outside Lawrence and a homemade jar of pepper jelly. Also stowed were more than 20 carefully wrapped cocktail glasses. Buhler, a Lawrence native, is competing this week in the United States Bartenders’ Guild World
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The Complete Street option, reducing traffic from two lanes traveling in each direction to one lane for each direction, is the option city engineers are recommending to city commissioners, Cronin said. Because that option would require fewer resources and qualify
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