Progress 2007
- Free State High School, anchor for west Lawrence, celebrating year 10
- April 21, 2007
- Joe Snyder had to do some calculations. But Free State High School’s first and only principal found the key number: 2,777.
- Free State pushes city’s growth out west
- April 21, 2007
- Back in the mid-1990s, when Lawrence’s school board first picked a 67-acre agricultural site in northwest Lawrence for a second high school, it lit the fuse on a development explosion still being felt today.
- Bishop Seabury celebrating 10-year anniversary
- April 21, 2007
- Going to school at Bishop Seabury Academy is like going to school with members of your family, students say.
- City planning landlord, tenant events
- April 21, 2007
- Landlords and tenants will have a chance to learn more about fair housing laws at an upcoming seminar sponsored by the city’s Human Relations Department.
- Western part of city’s voter turnout highest
- April 21, 2007
- The west was best.
- Student voting sparse during April 3 election
- April 21, 2007
- Kansas University has a strong presence in Lawrence with its nearly 30,000 students, but their presence lags on election days.
- Private schools throughout city planning expansions
- April 21, 2007
- St. John Catholic School is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, but that doesn’t mean the school is taking much time to look back.
- KU students announce homelessness awareness project
- April 21, 2007
- Shannon Williams and Jenni Holtaway are disturbed by a national trend known as “bum bashing,” and they’re determined to do something to end that sort of violence here in Lawrence.
- Celebrations planned as Baker turns 150
- April 21, 2007
- The phrase “happy birthday” will be heard often during the next academic year at Baker University.
- State’s oldest university continues to record enrollment increase
- April 21, 2007
- Baker University has seen a steady increase in enrollment in the past several years.
- Parent support network grows in Lawrence
- April 21, 2007
- It’s a feeling that hits many parents of junior high students - a loss of control that comes from no longer knowing everything that’s going on in their child’s life.
- LHS announces documentary screening
- April 21, 2007
- Lawrence High School’s film and media department will present “No Child Left Unrecruited: A Documentary,” at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N.H.
- Teacher presented with excellence award
- April 21, 2007
- A longtime Lawrence High School teacher was the recipient of a Mayor’s Excellence in Education Award on April 3.
- National Merit scholars advance in competition
- April 21, 2007
- Thirteen local seniors have advanced in the annual National Merit scholarship competition.
- W@LH undergoes ‘huge learning curve’
- After-school program building formula for successful student events
- April 21, 2007
- Junior high students are pretty picky about what they like to do.
- Walking, biking event to raise money for center
- April 21, 2007
- An event to raise money to keep life-saving services available at Headquarters Counseling Center offers a day of walking, cycling and throwing rubber chickens around.
- AIDS Walk draws record number participants
- April 21, 2007
- About 300 people pounded the pavement in below-average temperatures April 7 to raise money to help fight AIDS.
- Construction nears completion on school projects
- April 21, 2007
- When classes begin next fall in most of Lawrence’s secondary schools, there will be one familiar element missing from the normal buzz of the school day: the sound of construction.
- KJHK wins broadcasting awards
- April 21, 2007
- KJHK Radio, a student-run station serving Kansas University, was presented with five awards at the annual Kansas Association of Broadcasters awards ceremony April 2 in Wichita.
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- KU’s Elijah Johnson cautious at camp May 29, 2012
- Hilltop executive director Pat Pisani stepping down May 28, 2012
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