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Thursday, January 12, 2012
- County adjusts voting districts
- First Bell: 750 words could yield $5,000 for a young entrepreneur; board member joins advisory board for Community Corrections
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
- Third incumbent seeking re-election to Lecompton City Council
- First Bell: School board taking applications for Finance Advisory Committee; Prairie Park Nature Center offers trips for home-schoolers
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
- United Way outlines strategies for helping student performance in Douglas County
- Area events to celebrate life of Martin Luther King Jr.
- 2nd Lecompton City Council member files for re-election
- First Bell: Free State to auction old-time jerseys; Consolidation Working Group receives direction
- School consolidation options due from task force next month
Monday, January 9, 2012
- USDA to close Food Safety Inspection Service office in Lawrence
- Incumbent seeks re-election to Lecompton City Council
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
- Wildcat sees the light, renounces all things purple, starts waving wheat
- School consolidation group seeks more time to turn in report
Monday, January 2, 2012
- Lawrence area’s business call for 2012: ‘We need jobs’
Sunday, January 1, 2012
- School consolidation: Student numbers factor into talks
Friday, December 30, 2011
- First Bell: required make-up time shrinks for Free State High; looking ahead on Gov. Brownback's financing plan; First Bell to return a week into new year
Thursday, December 29, 2011
- Free State High students to make up classroom time lost because of bomb threat
- First Bell: Keep math skills sharp during Winter Recess; Lawrence school board to receive reports in new year
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
- First Bell: Lawrence school board to receive enrollment projections in new year; investigation continues into Dec. 1 bomb threat
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
- Lake Alvamar dam set for $1.4 million upgrade
Sunday, December 25, 2011
- School district’s lesson for 2012: Learn to manage change
Monday, December 19, 2011
- Bond support builds, as consolidation plans for Lawrence elementary schools lag
- ESL programs factor into Lawrence elementary consolidation plans
Friday, December 16, 2011
- Law enforcement officers receive gift of smiles from young shoppers
- First Bell: District employees to receive bonuses during holiday season; Raintree Montessori student lands art in KDHE calendar; First Bell on winter break
Thursday, December 15, 2011
- First Bell: How's this for a homework excuse?; proposed school-finance plan ready for review
- As antibullying efforts evolve, ‘data drives decisions’
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
- County grants OK for museum addition
- Thin line can separate coaching and bullying in schools
- First Bell: Consolidation option would displace board president’s department; district officials await word on Gov. Brownback’s school-financing plan
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
- Kansas Athletics Inc. has recovered almost $500K from tickets scandal
- First Bell: School board honors students; bomb threat means longer days ahead at Free State High School
- Free State students likely to make up time lost to bomb threat
- School board backs standards-based grades
- In Lawrence, anti-bullying efforts depend on the school
- County to discuss redistricting, heritage grants processes
Monday, December 12, 2011
- Cordley, New York schools add ideas to Lawrence elementary consolidation mix
- Giving teacher a gift? Know the rules
- First Bell: Deerfield students help humane society; West students embark on service learning; board members to honor gymnasts and others
Saturday, December 10, 2011
- Redevelopment could complicate consolidation
- District learns from bomb threat notification delays
Friday, December 9, 2011
- School board to receive report on standards-based grading
- First Bell: Holiday guidelines for teachers in schools; Lawrence school board to receive standards-based grading report Monday night
Thursday, December 8, 2011
- First Bell: No decision yet on makeup time for Free State; seeking holiday gift advice; ‘nation's report card’ released
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
- First Bell: Former student secures educator tickets for Obama; Eudora district honored for sustainability efforts; Hillcrest explores options for adding students
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
- First Bell: Consolidation Working Group bracing for its endgame; group welcomes two new representatives from Kennedy School
- Kennedy School representative on school consolidation: ‘Pick us’
Monday, December 5, 2011
- Permit for proposed sand pit near Eudora up for county consideration
- First Bell: Veritas senior earns nomination to U.S. Naval Academy; Consolidation Working Group ready to focus on scenarios tonight
Saturday, December 3, 2011
- New building to combine Kennedy, N.Y. schools would face a complicated path

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