The city commission approved a resolution of intent to issue $1.75 million in industrial revenue bonds to renovate the Lawrence Opera House. The motion passed with a 4-1 vote, commissioner Mike Amyx as the lone opponent. The proposal by Bowersock Ltd was to renovate and use the opera house in many ways, including 10,000 square feet of office space and operation of a school for the performing arts and audio-visual recording. It was uncertain how all this would factor into the Downtown Improvement Committee philosophy.

The city commission denied major sign variances and commissioner Ernest Angino compared one applicant’s request with “a walk into the propeller.” Martin Outdoor of Kansas, a Topeka sign company, was a major player in the process.

A New York parade honoring American Olympic Games medal winners was marred when construction scaffolding at 195 Broadway collapsed and some 20 were hurt, several seriously.

The costs of joining a Midwestern hospital association outweighed potential benefits, officials at Lawrence Memorial Hospital said. Bob Ohlen was executive director.