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Judy Collins’ wisdom: ‘Age is in the mind’ Folk icon playing at Lied Center
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SYDNEY OWENS, A FIFTH-GRADER AT EUDORA ELEMENTARY, excitedly takes a bucket from classmate Bailey Shoemaker during a water hauling exercise on Friday near the Wakarusa River Valley Heritage Museum at Clinton Lake.
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At water festival, kids learn value of every drop
Judy Collins, the Grammy-winning singersongwriter behind classic covers of Joni Mitchell and Stephen Sondheim tunes alike, feels young. She looks young, her famous blue eyes as piercing as ever, and she sounds young, too. More than a half-century into her career, Collins performs upwards of 100 live shows a year, and will make her next stop today at Lawrence’s Lied Center.
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ad the tadpole may not play fetch or enjoy a good belly rub, but he’s won the hearts of the kids gathered around his habitat for the day — a shallow, water-filled container populated with algae, tiny mosquitofish and the empty shells of zebra mussels — under the shade of a shelter at Clinton Lake’s Bloomington East Park.
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Hotel, credit union, restaurants among fall’s new developments Markus gets one-on-one input F Town Talk from ‘listening post’ attendees EUDORA ELEMENTARY FIFTH-GRADER JULIAN MEIER squints into a microscope to get a closer look at some plankton retrieved from Clinton > WATER, 2A Lake.
comfortable with the idea that they could come and talk to him. At City Manager Tom “What I gain from it Markus’ first “lisis kind of a gauge tening post,” of whether they Lawrence resifeel like what dents were invitwe as the staff ed one by one to are doing is tell Markus what good,” Markus they thought was said. “I’m going going right and to hear things wrong with the about the city’s city. policies, the M a r k u s Markus city’s actions said that forand determimat would get people nations on things too. By Rochelle Valverde
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From that standpoint, I can help inform the commission.” Markus, who came to Lawrence after serving as the city manager of Iowa City, said he plans to hold listening posts at several times and locations in order to speak with a cross-section of people. The focus of the conversations is meant to be the City Commission’s
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CORRECTIONS In the print version of Friday’s newspaper, a story about the state budget profile contained a quote displayed in a pull-out box that was attributed to the wrong person. The quote should have been attributed to Sen. Anthony Hensley, D-Topeka.
all — it began Thursday, as evidenced by my perspiration having a certain pumpkin spice latte hue to it — makes me think of flannel. Flannel makes me think of lumberjacks. Lumberjacks make me think of the Northwest. So, let’s provide an update on some northwest Lawrence development. Yes, I really should think less. l Trump vs. Clinton. Pepperoni vs. sausage. They are all choices you may have to make in
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November. I’m getting word that Kansas City’s Spin Neapolitan Pizza will open its Lawrence location sometime in November.
As we have reported, Spin is going into the new retail building just east of the Wal-Mart near Sixth and Wakarusa. A representative with Spin alerted me to the likely November opening, but didn’t have an exact date to share yet. If you have forgotten about Spin, it touts itself as an artisan-style pizzeria, with Neapolitan crusts. That means hand-spun, thin crusts that are cooked in a stone oven.
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FARM TOUR COMING UP More info, plus tips for first-timers. HOME & GARDEN, 1C Journal-World File Photos
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