Free State High School theater students will be taking their production of “The Addams Family: School Edition” to the Kansas Thespian Festival next month after being selected to perform on the festival’s main stage. Their show is one of five from high schools around the state to be chosen for the festival, which will take place Thursday, Jan. 8, through Saturday, Jan. 10, in Wichita. Free State students ...
To help more people with disabilities stay fit and active, Kaw Valley CrossFit needed more space for classes tailored specifically to them — and now it has just that. A new 2,500-square-foot space was built adjacent to Kaw Valley’s main facility, 1204 East 24th St., and it’s intended to host functional fitness classes that can be adapted to the needs of athletes in wheelchairs and those with other ...
Many local organizations and municipal offices with regular weekday hours are shut down or have modified schedules this week in observance of Christmas. The organizations that will be closed or have impacted holiday hours this week include: • City of Lawrence – Offices will be closed on Dec. 25. • Solid waste services – Residential trash and recycling collection services will be delayed by one day ...
A white Christmas is not in the forecast for northeastern Kansas this year, as record-breaking warm temperatures are anticipated during the holiday. While no snow is disappointing for a lot of people, a social media post from the National Weather Service office in Topeka said that a white Christmas in northeast Kansas already doesn’t occur very often — only 15% to 20% of the time. But the National ...
The Lawrence school district has responded to an amended complaint in a lawsuit regarding its former use of Gaggle, acknowledging a quiet switch to a similar software but denying any legal wrongdoing in making the switch. In November, the current and former students who filed a lawsuit against the school district for its use of Gaggle filed an amended complaint to the U.S. District Court of Kansas. It said ...
Balancing budgets, careers and curveballs, SparkWheel’s student finance program lets kids step into the future and discover how quickly paychecks can disappear. The FutureNow: Finance program is an interactive workshop that SparkWheel hosts in collaboration with partner schools to help middle and high school students understand and prepare for real world financial responsibilities. The Lawrence group ...