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LAWRENCE RESIDENT AUSTIN TURNEY CAME TO LIVE at 1501 Pennsylvania St. when he was 2 years old. He grew up on the property and, at 85, is its caretaker. Before his family moved in in 1931, only one other family, the Riggs family, had lived there. The house was built in 1863 8.5 each oz. 8.5 each oz. each of Historic Places. and is listed on the National Register The staircase in the top photo is original to the home. ¢ EDAP $7.99 EDAP $9.25 EDAP 99
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mowing chore. A single mowing actually is best measured in the number of days it takes. But that’s not bad, considering nearly everything else on this enduring property is measured in generations. Turney’s home near 15th and Pennsylvania streets was under construction in 1863 when William Quantrill raided the city. He burned it down. It was quickly rebuilt, and since that time, only two
families have ever owned the structure, which is best known as the old house with the tower just down the road from the old East Lawrence greenhouse. (We really do give directions like we’re in Mayberry sometimes.) “Two fathers and two sons,” Turney says of the grand number of people who have owned the property. The first father was Samuel Riggs. He was the
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House and Senate budget committees are scheduled to begin work this week on school finance bills that would respond to a recent Supreme Court order to increase funding for poor school districts. But with three very different bills on the table, and with only one week remaining in the 2014 regular session, it now appears likely that a final deal will not be reached until lawmakers return for their final wrap-up session in late April. Gov. Sam Brownback, however, is optimistic the issue can be resolved before the Legislature adjourns on Friday. Brownback “Over the past two weeks there is nothing I have invested more time and effort into than bringing legislators together on a solution on school funding,” Brownback said in an email statement. “I believe we are very close to putting in place a process to resolve this matter by the end of next week.” The Supreme Court gave lawmakers until July 1 to address disparities in what’s called “equalization aid” — money the state spends to subsidize capital outlay and local option budgets for less wealthy districts. Those disparities were caused by budget cuts enacted in the wake of the Great Recession beginning in 2009. Restoring full funding of the so-called “equalization aid” would cost an estimated $129 million, a little more
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FIVE YEARS AGO, Lawrence resident Anna Doktor and her two children were living without health insurance. Doktor has since obtained insurance through her job at a local bank and believes she is on steadier ground than before despite its high cost.
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