Sound Off
Sound Off: What’s the story behind the Hillcrest boulder at Ninth Street and Highland Drive? What was the impetus for putting it there? Who paid for it? Is it on a public right-of-way?
Megan Gilliland, the city’s communications manager, provided this answer: According to the public works department, the neighborhood requested the monument. The neighborhood provided all materials and manpower to complete it. The City Commission approved a right-of-way license agreement that gave the neighborhood authority to install and maintain the monument. If the city needs the right-of-way in the future, the neighborhood will be responsible for removing any of the installations at its cost.
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Comments
overthemoon 1 year, 1 month ago
it's kind of dorky.
pace 1 year, 1 month ago
Tossing your empty glass at the stone?
Did_I_say_that 1 year, 1 month ago
Timeline-wise it seems to have been tied into the "save our neighborhood school" era.
rockchalker52 1 year, 1 month ago
I like it.
JackMcKee 1 year, 1 month ago
Who is responsible for cleaning off the graffiti that thing is going to attract?
I think the rock is symbolic of the intellectual capacity of the people that live in that area.
KRichards 1 year, 1 month ago
We would have trouble even locating the pebble that represented your intellectual capacity.
rodentgirl16 1 year, 1 month ago
+1
pace 1 year, 1 month ago
1+
Pywacket 1 year, 1 month ago
+1
JackMcKee 1 year, 1 month ago
2 residents of the neighborhood but no explanation of what the rock represents. Surely you had a meeting to discuss this idea. Maybe the city can use the rock as a headstone when they close your school.
bhall87 1 year, 1 month ago
The neighborhood wanted something to welcome the many, many people who drive by to their neighborhood. What's wrong with that? That you are complaining about a rock with the words "Welcome to Hillcrest Neighborhood" that in no way affects your life seems a bit childish and petty.
JackMcKee 1 year, 1 month ago
It's really a shame these people managed to close the only school that should have remained open. The rock truly is an appropriate symbol for this neighborhood.
asixbury 1 year, 1 month ago
Why are you so bitter about everything, JackMcKee? You need some love and happiness in your life. It's quite sad to always see you (through your comments) so crabby.
JackMcKee 1 year, 1 month ago
matter of fact I'm probably one of the happier people that participates here unlike those that live only for the refresh button on their pentium 5 Dells and that haven't traveled outside the Lawrence city limits in the last decade.
asixbury 1 year, 1 month ago
Well, I hope that is true. Your comments sometimes do not reflect your happiness.
Pywacket 1 year, 1 month ago
Richard Nixon: "I am not a crook."
Bill Clinton: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
Larry Craig: "I am not gay.... I have a wide stance..."
JackMcKee: "..."I'm probably one of the happier people...."
Denial of the obvious never loses its comic punch!
JackMcKee 1 year, 1 month ago
You'll have to excuse me, I'm going to lose my iPhone connection to the LJW asylum when I head down to the beach to enjoy my afternoon in sunshine. That is all. Carry on.
Pywacket 1 year, 1 month ago
Pffft! That's supposed to make us all jealous, I suppose? Ooohhh, Jack gets to go to a beach! Where he will surreptitiously pleasure himself imagining that the rest of us lack the means to enjoy his life of leisure!
Enjoy your beach fantasy, Jack. No one's buying your St. Tropez tan fantasy but yourself, so get your money's worth. The rest of us are going to pile into the Lear jet now; we wouldn't want to miss our dinner engagement at Jean-Georges with Elon and Sir Richard.
rockchalker52 1 year, 1 month ago
Be nice, Jack. You upsetting Oddball. A sound philosophy starting at 0:35 secs.
Always with the negative waves, Moriarty. by thereal617
JackMcKee 1 year, 1 month ago
What's upsetting is that Wakarusa, a school that was actually wasn't a waste of taxpayer dollars was shuttered while the half empty schools from the "Save my School" crowd remain open and continue to bleed funds from the rest of the school district. These people go out and buy a rock. The only welcome that gives is a welcome to bed over.
Pywacket 1 year, 1 month ago
Would you like to buy a consonant? How about a fainting couch? You do seem tightly wound.
JackMcKee 1 year, 1 month ago
That school will close. Rock or no rock.
somedude20 1 year, 1 month ago
You're being very undude. Here, you need this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQ... Some things in life are bad They can really make you mad Other things just make you swear and curse. When you're chewing on life's gristle Don't grumble, give a whistle And this'll help things turn out for the best...
overthemoon 1 year, 1 month ago
For a neighborhood of pretty nice mid-century modern homes, this slab 'o shelf rock is a pretty strange design solution. It would be nice if it looked like some actually had designed it.
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