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THURSDAY • JUNE 26 • 2014
DEVELOPMENT
Winter gets Free State Festival off to hot start
Retail plans heat up at opposite ends of town By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
Rumblings of major new retail development in Lawrence are growing louder, and they’re coming from opposite corners of the community. Revised plans have been filed at City Hall for a major retail development southeast of the South Lawrence Trafficway and Iowa Street intersection, with the latest plans showing space set aside for a hotel, a specialty grocery store and spots for at least 10 other large retailers. At the same time, a group led by members of the Schwada and Fritzel families Please see RETAIL, page 9A
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MUSIC FANS, ABOVE, SMILE WITH ANTICIPATION as blues player Johnny Winter, top, takes the stage during his performance Wednesday night outside the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St., to help kick off the 2014 Free State Festival. The festival continues today and runs through Sunday.
Blues woo thousands on warm night to launch week’s celebration of the arts By Elliot Hughes Twitter: @elliothughes12
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nyone hungry for a weekend of ideas, art, music and film got a solid appetizer Wednesday night from celebrated blues guitarist Johnny Winter in downtown Lawrence. Outside the Lawrence Arts Center in the warm June night, the co-headliner performed in front of 2,000 onlookers on New Hampshire Street — just after many of them watched a documentary that detailed his life — to officially mark
the beginning of the 2014 Free State Festival. “It’s a beautiful evening,” said Susan Tate, executive director of the arts center, which organized the festival. “(People) are dancing and loving the music.” Most of the 900 block of New Hampshire Street was reserved for the festivities Wednesday. Visitors strolled freely about the corridor lined with food and drink vendors, who added the signature scents of summertime — beer and grilled goods. People leaned against the build-
Please see WINTER, page 2A
An expanded slate of Free State Festival events is coming up today and this weekend. Page 6A
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ings on either side of New Hampshire Street, lawn chairs were unfolded in the road and, up top, crowds lined the ledges of the parking garage for a bird’s-eye view. Winter took the stage about 9:30 p.m. sporting a black cowboy hat, his white-blonde hair in a ponytail. He launched into his act, playing covers
Low: 71
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10th Circuit: Gay marriage ban violates Constitution ———
Panel is first federal appellate court to uphold same-sex right to marry By Peter Hancock and Scott Rothschild Twitter: @LJWpqhancock and @ljwrothschild
In a case that could have a direct impact on Kansas, a federal appeals court in Denver ruled Wednesday that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry. A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a constitutional amendment enacted in Utah that bans same-sex marriage violates the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution’s
Lee McBee dies at 63
Please see GAY, page 9A
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Friends mourn local blues musician who died Tuesday. Page 3A
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