24 hours in Lawrence / LJWorld.com

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12:00am

Kansas lawmakers are considering changing the way state Supreme Court justices are selected, but lawyers say the move would politicize the court.

From the Lawrence Daily World of May 24, 1908: “Something of a sensation occurred in Leavenworth yesterday when a Presbyterian church pastor was ousted because he had written some ‘fool’ letters to one of the younger girls in the congregation.

Inside the station, Jade Sanchez, 24, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, drifts in and out of sleep to the sound of train bells in the distance. “It’s too normal here, I’m ready to go home,” said Sanchez. The No. 3 Southwest Chief train will drop her off in Albuquerque in 15 hours, about the same as the drive.

1:00am

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It’s 1:15 a.m. and the band is overbearingly loud at The Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Mass.

2:00am

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And there’s nothing like a cold glass of milk to wash down a fresh pastry and for Munchers Bakery owner Mike Tennyson the overnight hours are prime time for baking the day’s goods.

Since December 1989, when he bought Muncher’s Bakery, Mike Tennyson has been preparing the pastries that Lawrence residents can’t get enough of.

3:00am

While most of Lawrence is sound asleep, Sharon Cobbinah is wide awake, albeit sipping on a can of caffeinated Pepsi.

4:00am

It’s too early to call it “bright and early.” In fact, when Eugene George wakes, just a little before 4 a.m., it’s dark, and this morning heavy fog sets over his dairy farm.

Most people in Lawrence probably don’t know him, but they may very well depend on him.

5:00am

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Area food pantries dish up better ways to “serve” the community as officials from nearly all of Lawrence’s food pantries met today to share ideas about helping then hungry.

We begin well before sun-up south of Lawrence, where Eugene George awakes well before dawn to milk his day for all its worth.

The clock next to my bed reads 5:42 a.m. when I turn and see the red lights on the baby monitor spike as an insistent cry bursts out of the speaker.