Arts: Tour guide to discuss downtown sculptures

The public can take part in a guided walking tour of the eight new sculptures that are on display around downtown Lawrence.

The tour begins at 4 p.m. today in front of the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N.H.

The tour marks the unveiling of the city’s 16th outdoor sculpture exhibit. Jan Schall, curator of contemporary art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo. will describe the sculptures.

Education: High school names new associate principal

Matt Brungardt says his appointment as associate principal at Lawrence High School was music to his ears.

“I’m … excited to get back to Lawrence,” said Brungardt, principal and dean of academics at Kapaun-Mount Carmel High School in Wichita. “My wife has family there, and my parents spend a lot of time in Topeka when the Legislature is in session.”

Brungardt’s father represents Salina in the Kansas Senate.

Brungardt and his wife, Courtney, both graduated from Kansas University. He added a master’s degree in educational administration at University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Brungardt, whose appointment was announced Friday, will start his new duties July 1 at LHS. He’ll join another newcomer, Principal Steve Nilhas.

Brungardt replaces Tammy Heenan, while Nilhas takes the place of Dick Patterson. Both Heenan and Patterson accepted jobs in Topeka.

Courts: Hearing postponed in I-70 murder case

For the second week in a row, a mental competency hearing has been postponed for a man accused of killing his son in August along Interstate 70 near Lawrence.

A Leavenworth County judge was scheduled to hear results Friday from an independent mental evaluation of Raymond Boothe, Cameron, Mo., whose 11-year-old son, Levi, was found stabbed on the Kansas Turnpike. But the report wasn’t ready, and the hearing was rescheduled for July 9.

The hearing originally had been set for May 30.

Boothe’s court-appointed attorney requested the evaluation last year after Larned State Hospital staff found Boothe competent to stand trial.