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WEDNESDAY • MAY 25 • 2016
City leaders undecided on arts corridor
Capping off high school
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After 4 hours of public feedback, commission votes to discuss E. Ninth Project in coming weeks By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @nikkiwentling
After nearly four hours of hearing what Lawrence residents thought about the project to change East Ninth Street into an arts corridor, the City Commission — with not enough votes to move its design forward — voted to study it further in coming weeks. Forty-one Lawrence business owners, artists and other residents spoke about the multimillion-dollar project Tuesday night, and dozens more onlookers filled the ground floor of City Hall. The meeting room and overflow area
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KHAURY EL-AMIN AND JOSH EISENHAUER, ALONG WITH ABOUT 350 OTHER GRADUATING SENIORS, throw their caps in the air during Free State High School’s commencement ceremony Tuesday at Lawrence Free State High School Stadium. BELOW: FSHS graduates Zach Dixon and Madeline Dethloff sing the school’s alma mater.
Free State graduates challenged to take action By Rochelle Valverde Twitter: @RochelleVerde
Free State High School on Tuesday. “There are lots of problems that need solved, lots of issues that are begging for your attention,” Sanburn said in her commencement address. “It’s not enough to say you care. Attention, effort, work: This is what makes change happen.”
With the receipt of one diploma comes plenty of words — spoken among graduates, family and friends — about what the years after high school will bring. But those words will remain just that without action, Lawrence school board President Vanessa Sanburn told graduates of Please see GRADUATION, page 6A
By Nikki Wentling
Strike up the band: Summer music tradition returns tonight Twitter: @HlavacekJoanna
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things from the William Kelly Bandstand (aka the gazebo) in South Park. “We just can’t take his place and we don’t want to,” says assistant conductor Marion Roberts, who will share rotating conducting duties this summer with newly appointed conductor Paul Popiel and Please see BAND, page 2A
City commissioners talked about the need to quicken plans for a new headquarters building for the Lawrence Police Department during a discussion Tuesday about the city’s five-year capital improvement plan. Under a new draft of the plan released Tuesday, the police department is slated to receive $1.5 million for design of a new facility, which the department has advocated for in recent years.
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When the Lawrence City Band performs its first concert of the 2016 summer season this evening, it’ll be without longtime conductor Robert Foster, who retired after last year’s season. Instead, audiences will find a trio of new — but familiar — faces directing
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remained full until commissioners voted at 11 p.m. to hold a study session about the project. Sometime in coming weeks, they’ll go through its specifics, including funding and how much work should be done to the street. “I’m at a point where I’d ask to move the concept design forward and go to phase two,” Mayor Mike Amyx said at the beginning of commission deliberations. “We can still help direct the scope of the project. We can do that if we move to phase two. It’s a great concept to work from.”
City Manager Tom Markus told commissioners Tuesday they should reopen discussions about the issue and select a site. He stipulated that, in CITY COMMISSION a cost-saving measure, the site should be one already owned by the city. “This has been a major issue of discussion,” Markus said. “What I recommend we do is we get Please see POLICE, page 7A
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