Lawrence Journal-World 06-07-12

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TENNIS COURTS

Plan lights up FSHS, not LHS ——

Project would cost about $350,000 By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com

School district and parks and recreation leaders hope they have hit a winner with a new plan aimed at ending a long-simmering neighborhood debate over lighting tennis courts near Lawrence High School. The Lawrence public school district has filed a plan with City Hall Neighbors that would of Lawrence a b a n d o n High School the lighting at have object- project LHS, and ed to previ- instead exous lighting pand and plans, citing light courts at Free concerns the State High light will spill School. “It just over to their h a s n ’ t properties. w o r k e d out at Lawrence High,” said Tom Bracciano, director of facilities and maintenance for the school district. “There are some repairs that needed to be done to the Free State tennis courts. We think with the city it can be a nice replacement for the old Lawrence Tennis Center.” Plans call for the five existing courts at Free State to be rebuilt to correct deteriorating court conditions. The project also would add three new courts to the east of the existing courts and add lights for night play on all the courts. The project has emerged as leaders with Lawrence Parks and Recreation have struggled to come up with a plan to light eight courts at Lawrence

AT TOP, MEMBERS OF THE LAWRENCE CITY BAND kick off their concert with the Star Spangled Banner on Wednesday evening in South Park. The concert, “Lawrence Legends,” featured Paul Gray and the Gaslight Gang, Clyde Bysom and more. Bysom, bottom right, has been performing at the South Park gazebo for more than 70 years. He and the band performed “Dixieland Jamboree.” ABOVE AT RIGHT, children play in the fountain during the Lawrence City Band concert on Wednesday. This week’s concert was the first to be held outdoors; last week’s season-opener was moved indoors because of bad weather. AT LEFT, a young girl dances to music at the Lawrence City Band concert. Concerts are held at 8 p.m. every Wednesday, with the exception of the special Tuesday, July 3, performance, in South Park, weather permitting. See a video of the concert at LJWorld.com.

Photos by Mike Yoder

A man was flown by air ambulance to Kansas University Hospital with life-threatening injuries after two semitrailers collided Wednesday

afternoon on U.S. Highway 59 south of Lawrence. Sgt. Steve Lewis, a Douglas County Sheriff’s spokesman, said the crash occurred just before 3 p.m. when the driver of a westbound semitrailer carrying cement mix on North 1000 Road, or Wells Overlook Road,

EMERGENCY CREWS work the scene of an accident in which two semitrailers collided. The head-on wreck occurred Wednesday south of Lawrence on U.S. Highway 59.

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was struck by a northbound semitrailer carrying water and farm supplies. Lewis said Wednesday night a preliminary investigation indicates the westbound semitrailer’s driver failed to stop at the intersection.

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There were questions about taxes, there were questions about traffic, and there were questions about how a proposed public-private partnership to build a new recreation complex in northwest Lawrence would work. But Lawrence Mayor Bob Schumm said he was pleased with what he didn’t hear from a crowd of about 70 people who gathered for a public forum at Free State High School on Wednes- Schumm day regarding a proposed recreation center and complex. “I didn’t hear anybody say ‘stop,’” Schumm said after the public gave more than an hour’s worth of comments. “I heard people say ‘make sure you know what you’re doing.’ I agree completely with that.” The city’s Parks and Recreation Advisory Board hosted a public forum to get input on a proposed recreation center that would be built on 50 acres of property donated to the city on the northwest corner of the South Lawrence Trafficway and Sixth Street. The crowd included people who had concerns about the unknown details of the project, but also people who were excited about a facility that is proposed to be about 160,000 square feet and have Please see REC, page 2A

Driver injured in head-on crash ONLINE: See the video at LJWorld.com

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Another debate on evolution? State Board of Education member says he’s troubled by how science is taught. Page 3A

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