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City Commission will reassess river trail pavement Tuesday By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @nikkiwentling
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MEMBERS OF THE KANSAS MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM, dressed in their dancing suits, pile on top of Brennan Bechard, director of basketball operations, left, and Jerrod Martin Castro, a Topeka sophomore, after Bechard hit a half-court shot that awarded Castro a $10,000 check from men’s coach Bill Self during Late Night in the Phog on Friday at Allen Fieldhouse. FULL COVERAGE IN SPORTS, 1C LEFT: An excited group of Kansas University students watch as a Jayhawk spotlight is projected on them during the event. RIGHT: Members of the Kansas women’s basketball team dance for the crowd.
Pinckney Neighborhood resident Shellie Bender admits she’s not an expert at sediment and river stability. But from the vantage point of her bright orange home at the very north end of Ohio Street — where she’s lived for more than three decades — she’s witnessed the Kansas River shoreline recede. CITY She’s watched COMMISSION as heavy rains swept away surrounding land and as beavers took down large trees, killing roots that stabilized the riverbank, she said. Concern about the riverbank led Bender, along with Lawrence residents Jennifer Newlin and Alison Roepe, to question the city’s ongoing project to pave a trail along the river between Burcham and Constant parks. “We’ve had serious diminishing,” Bender said. “It’s not an environmentally sound decision Please see TRAIL, page 2A
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We’re not dealing with a creek, pond or lake here. We have to be vigilant.” — Shellie Bender, Pinckney Neighborhood resident
Emerald ash borer has arrived in Douglas County; now what? Smaller than a penny, the invasive pest terrorizes cities, homeowners By Conrad Swanson Twitter: @conrad_swanson
A quick drive down the main street of Kansas City, Kan., is all a person needs to see the effects of the emerald ash borer, said Marlin Bates, a horticulture agent at
the Kansas State University Extension in Douglas County. The invasive insect, he explained, has already devastated the tree population on that historic stretch. Symptoms in infected trees left untreated
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Asia, were introduced to the U.S. upper Midwest sometime around 2002, Bates said. And they’ve been in Kansas since 2012, but never before have they been this close. begin within the first year or On Sept. 30, the Kansas and United two, and the mortality rate is States departments of agriculture con100 percent, Bates said. And at firmed the presence of the emerald ash the end of September, the insects borer in Douglas County, Bates said. Fewer were detected in Douglas County. than 10 of the insects’ larvae were removed “It’s just sickening what they can from a type of trap tree set in Eudora. do to the ash trees,” Bates said. Please see ASH, page 2A The insects, which originated in East Garden Variety: Tips on how to keep from spreading the dangerous pests. 4A
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A Lawrence dog that went missing after a recent home burglary was reunited with its family Thursday after seven days on the streets. Page 4A
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