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JAKE DELATORRE, 14, WATCHES THE KANSAS RIVER overspill its banks and flood Burcham Park on Friday. The park was closed at 4 p.m. Thursday. The Kansas River reached flood stage in Lawrence on Friday morning, but the water level is expected to decline today, according to officials at Douglas County Emergency Management.
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Water expected to subside today By Shaun Hittle sdhittle@ljworld.com
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The Kansas River reached flood stage in Lawrence on Friday morning but the water level is expected to decline today, according to officials at Douglas County Emergency Management. But the flood warning will remain in effect until this afternoon. On Friday morning, Lawrence city leaders closed Burcham Park, Riverfront Park and the lower portions of Constant Park because the Kansas River breached its banks. The water level was projected to crest at 18 feet, 7 inches, and begin declining by this morning. City officials said the parks would be closed until the water level drops below the 18-foot mark.
The Kansas River at Lecompton also has reached its flood stage level of 17 feet. The river was above 18 feet Friday afternoon but was expected to start declining soon, according to the National Weather Service. Jillian Rodrigue, assistant director of Douglas County Emergency Management, warned of possible flash flooding on roads and urged residents to monitor the media and weather radios in case the forecast changes. She said people shouldn’t go down to the river or play in flood waters, as the river banks can become unstable during a flood. Douglas County Emergency Management sends out frequent updates at Twitter.com/dgcoem. — Reporter Shaun Hittle can be reached at 832-7173.
A DISC GOLF COURSE SIGN is submerged Friday in Riverfront Park after the Kansas River reached flood stage.
A possible toll road The funding will be enough to build a four-lane freeway from the eastern edge of Lawrence at the Kansas Highway 10 and Noria Road intersection to U.S. Highway 59 in southern Lawrence, where the Please see TRAFFICWAY, page 2A
AMY EDWARDS WALKS HER DOGS at the entrance to Burcham Park on Friday morning, watching flood waters from the Kansas River spill over into the park. At left is Jake Delatorre, 14.
Former acting president named to lead Haskell took over as acting president in March, and Redman officially takes the position July 3. Details of Redman’s salary were not After a seven-month search, Haskell Indi- announced Friday, but when the position an Nations University has a new president, was posted in November the salary range and it’s a familiar name. advertised was $113,375 to $147,857. Warner Chris Redman, who’s served two made just over $140,000 as Haskell Haskell terms as acting president, was president. University selected for the post by Bureau of Redman will be responsible for Indian Education Director Keith overseeing the land grant instituMoore. The selection was tion that serves members of the announced Friday. American Indian and Alaska “Chris Redman is a dedicated Native nations as authorized by public servant whose commitment Congress. The school’s more than to Haskell and to American Indian 1,000 students from about 150 higher education is unquestioned,” tribes do not pay tuition, and said Moore in a news release. instead pay fees by semester: $215 if The position had been open since living on campus, or $110 for those living off November, after the resignation of former campus for the 2010-2011 school year. The president Linda Warner, who had been sent school’s annual budget is around $14 million. to handle other bureau duties off campus Calls to Haskell for comment on the since September 2009. appointment were not immediately Redman’s two terms as acting president returned. were from September to December 2009 and — Reporter Shaun Hittle can be reached at 832-7173. May 2010 until March 2011. Clyde Peacock
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Chris Redman ● Named Friday as the new Haskell Indian Nations University president. ● Served two terms as acting Haskell president, most recently from May 2010 to March 2011. ● Worked for Haskell since 2008. ● Between 2005 and 2008, worked in a variety of positions within the Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Education Programs. ● A member of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma, Redman worked for the tribe between 1998 and 2005. ● Currently lives in Ardmore, Okla., with his wife and family. ● Graduated from Oral Roberts University in 1993 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. ● Received a master’s degree in human relations from the University of Oklahoma in 1998.
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The South Lawrence Trafficway now has a checkbook. Gov. Sam Brownback announced Friday morning that the state’s already-approved comprehensive transportation plan will include $192 million to complete the final leg of the traff icway, which will connect Kansas Highway 10 east of Lawrence to Interstate 70 west of This will the city. have an Now all that stands in the way enormous of completing the long-debated bypass — perhaps by the end of impact. It 2015 — is a final legal victory in will make federal court regarding whether the road can run through the Lawrence more a part Baker Wetlands. At an announcement event in of Kansas Kansas City, Kan., Brownback City, and expressed confidence that the state would overcome that hur- that will be dle. good on a “We are going to finish the couple of South Lawrence Trafficway,” Brownback said to a loud round accounts.” of applause from a crowd that included several city, chamber — Gov. Sam and Lawrence community lead- Brownback ers. “It will get done. We are going to do this.”
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TOPEKA — Gov. Sam Brownback criss-crossed the state this week announcing more than $1.8 billion in major highway projects, including the South Lawrence Traff icway in Lawrence. And that has Democrats crying foul because Brownback, a Republican, opposed the increase in the state sales tax rate to fund the state’s comprehensive transportation program. “It’s a little disingenuous,” Senate Democratic Leader Anthony Hensley Hensley of Topeka said Friday. During the 2010 campaign for governor, Brownback was critical of the temporary 1-cent sales tax rate increase that had been passed earlier in the year by a bipartisan coalition in the Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Mark Parkinson, a Democrat. Under the tax, six-tenths of the 1-cent increase will expire in 2013, and the remaining four-tenths Please see BROWNBACK, page 2A
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