From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 19, 1990:

• Hardly a parking space was available in downtown Lawrence early this morning as shoppers rose with the sun to catch some bargains at the annual sidewalk sale. Before 7:30 a.m., tables and racks overflowing with merchandise lined the sidewalks on Massachusetts Street; within half an hour, crowds had formed and pedestrian traffic had slowed to a snail’s pace. Clear skies and a light, cool wind helped bring out the shoppers, and more than 30 nonprofit organizations sponsored food and drink booths to help bargain-hunters stay on the job all day. Store employees spoke about the hectic atmosphere. “It’s very frantic, very frantic,” said Paul Whitely, systems consultant at Connecting Point, 813 Mass. “They come in little groups and they have 10 or 12 people interested in the same thing at the same time…. Some people come by to see what we’ve got and then they come back later to see if we still have it or if it’s marked down.”
• Controversy surrounding the “Skills for Adolescence” drug prevention curriculum piloted at South Junior High School had caused the former principal of the school to recommend the program be discontinued. P. Kay Duncan, who had been South’s principal at the time of the program’s debut, made the recommendation to the Lawrence school board in a letter this month.”