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This is a bit of irony. The first cancellation notice we received in advance of today’s winter storm was from Jillian Rodrigue, assistant director of Douglas County Emergency Management. She called off a “Weather101”
The closings listed here are as of midnight. Get a continuously updated list at LJWorld.com. class that was scheduled for this afternoon. It hasn’t been rescheduled yet. Here’s a list of other closings and cancellations:
School cancellations
• Kansas University: All classes after 7:30 a.m. at the Lawrence and Edwards campuses are canceled. Only weather-essential
employees should report for work. • Baker University’s Baldwin City and Kansas City Metro campuses and School of Nursing in Topeka • Haskell Indian Nations University: All classes canceled and all offices closed. • Lawrence Public Schools • Veritas Christian School • Bishop Seabury Academy • McLouth Public Schools • Wellsville Public Schools • Ottawa Public Schools
• Eudora Public Schools • Baldwin City Public Schools • Oskaloosa Public Schools • Perry-Lecompton Public Schools • Basehor-Linwood Public Schools • Tonganoxie Public Schools • Raintree Montessori School • Lawrence Montessori School • Prairie Moon Waldorf School • Century School • Santa Fe Trail Middle School in Olathe
• Googols of Learning Childcare Development Center • First Presbyterian First 5 Years Preschool • Building Blocks Daycare Center
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• Lawrence Public Library will be closed. • Douglas County District Court will be closed.
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Menards files plans to build store next to Home Depot
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By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
The intersection of 31st and Iowa streets may end up becoming a handyman’s haven. Menards has filed plans at Lawrence City Hall to build a large home improvement center just east of the Home Depot store near 31st and Iowa streets. Plans call for the store to be built on a portion of the former Gaslight Mobile Home Village, which has been vacated in recent months. Menards officials weren’t offering any comment on when the store may open, or why it is pursing a Lawrence project after announcing last year that it was placing its Kansas City metro area expansion plans on hold. “We are working on plans to build in Lawrence some day, but nothing has been finalized,” Menards spokesman Jeff Abbot said. Please see MENARDS, page 2A Nick Krug/Journal-World Photo
KANSAS HEAD COACH BILL SELF looks for a foul that wasn’t called against Oklahoma State on a last-second drive by KU guard Travis Releford that sent the game into double overtime on Wednesday at Gallagher-Iba Arena in Stillwater, Okla. At the end of that second overtime, KU came out on top, 68-67.
Tharpe nails winning shot in 68-67 double OT thriller By Tom Keegan tkeegan@ljworld.com
STILLWATER, OKLA. — The smallest scholarship player on the Kansas University basketball roster made the biggest shot of his team’s season, deep into a wild Wednesday night inside packed and jacked Gallagher-Iba Arena, lifting the Jayhawks to a 68-67, doubleovertime victory against
Oklahoma State. Naadir Tharpe, a 5-foot11 sophomore guard from Worcester, Mass., knew the shot clock was racing toward expiration and had no other option but to go for it. He dribbled his way into the lane and hit a running one-hander with 18 seconds remaining in the second overtime. Oklahoma State failed to score at the other end and
both overtimes by Kansas, which made six free throws in the first overtime and three in the second. Tharpe had made just 1 of 10 field goal attempts before hitting the game-winner. “Phil played great defense on him; dude just made a great shot,” Oklahoma State star Marcus Smart said of Tharpe’s game-winner.
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Kansas University is developing a new master plan for how its campus will serve the university and the city in coming years, and students and residents voiced their concerns and wishes at a pair of public forums. Page 3A
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the Jayhawks (22-4 overall, 10-3 in the Big 12) moved into a first-place tie with Kansas State atop the Big 12 standings. Oklahoma State, which tried to become the first team since 2001 Iowa State to sweep a Big 12 regular-season series against Kansas, dropped into third place. Tharpe’s shot over defender Phil Forte was the only field goal scored in
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