For the second year in a row, a student journalist from Lawrence High School was selected as the Kansas Student Journalist of the Year. Senior Zana Kennedy was presented with the award on Monday by her journalism adviser, Barb Tholen, in a surprise ceremony attended by LHS students and staff and Kennedy’s family. In addition to the recognition, she received $1,250 in scholarship money. Kennedy has been a ...
After submitting her ceramic art pieces to a regional art competition, Lawrence High School junior Ru Yother was told to check her email for a big surprise. Her teacher, Emily Markoulatos, told her this and didn’t give her additional details other than, “I’m not going to say anything except for congratulations,” she said. When Yother finally opened her inbox, she learned that she, along with only ...
As urban growth spreads into the Wakarusa River Valley south of Lawrence, Douglas County will conduct an assessment of which areas to preserve in order to minimize the impact of future flooding events. The Wakarusa River corridor mainly consists of an undeveloped floodplain along with agricultural land and rural development. Urban development has been moving along the southern boundary of Lawrence approaching ...
Story updated at 2:49 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13: The Lawrence area had about 100 fewer people experiencing unsheltered homelessness on the night of the annual point-in-time homeless count than it did last year, according to unverified figures released by the City of Lawrence on Thursday morning. The results are a “promising shift … in our efforts to end chronic homelessness in this community,” Misty ...
The Lawrence school board held a special meeting on Tuesday — consisting of two closed executive sessions with no action afterward — to discuss its superintendent search with its search committee and search firm, the Kansas Association of School Boards. Britton Hart from KASB had previously informed the board in January that he would meet with them on Feb. 12 to discuss candidates for the permanent ...
Frequent public commenter Michael Eravi stood before the Lawrence school board and spoke for 53 seconds before board President Kelly Jones paused his time on Monday night. Eravi had called the board’s enforcement of the public comment policy, which doesn’t allow for disruptive, foul or obscene language, “bull----,” prompting the board to encourage him to follow the policy regardless. That didn’t ...