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By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
A Lawrence city commissioner is following through on a pledge to try to provide storm shelters to local residents in the wake of devastating tornadoes in the Oklahoma City area. Commissioner Jeremy Farmer will host a meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday at Lawrence High School for anyone interested in serving on a task force that will examine ways the city could better ensure that residents have a safe place to take Farmer shelter from a storm. Currently, there are no public tornado shelters available in Lawrence, none of the Lawrence public schools have FEMA-approved safe rooms, and Farmer believes many businesses don’t have adequate shelter areas for employees and customers. “I really want to focus on what we can do to make the community safer and what
YOUNGSTERS from across the country have gathered for summer music camps at Kansas University. ABOVE: Brady Hicks, 11, of Lawrence, has a go on the kettle drums Monday at Murphy Hall. BOTTOM LEFT: Cassie Robinson, 13, of Lawrence, uses a pair of rhythm sticks. BOTTOM RIGHT: Instructor Von Hasen taps out a beat on his stomach as Brent Howe, 11, of Olathe, follows along. The Junior High Music Camp will culminate in a finale performance by the campers.
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Lawrence school board selects architecture firms By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com
The Lawrence school board agreed Monday night to negotiate contracts with four architectural firms, or groups of firms, to design building renovations and expansions that are being funded with the recently passed $92.5 million bond issue. That move marks another step toward the beginning of massive construction project that district officials say will outfit each of the build-
ings for 21st century learning Langston Hughes, Sunset practices. Hill, Cordley and Pinckney To manage the projects schools. Total project costs throughout the district, the for those five buildings are school board earlier estimated at $35.8 mildivided all of the projlion. ects into four pack Package 2: Sabaages. Pending negotiatini Architects Inc. of tion of final contracts, Lawrence, with Hollis the firms selected for and Miller Architects each of those packages of Overland Park. That SCHOOLS will be: package includes Ken Package 1: Gould nedy, Deerfield and Evans, the same Lawrence Schwegler schools, as well design firm that did much of as Free State and Lawrence the consulting work leading high schools. Total project up to the bond issue. That costs for the package are espackage includes Hillcrest, timated at $22.7 million.
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Package 3: BG Architecture, an international firm, and BG Consultants, Inc., which has offices in Lawrence. Those firms will design the projects at Quail Run, Sunflower, Broken Arrow and Prairie Park schools, as well as Liberty Memorial Central, South, Southwest and West middle schools. Work at the middle schools mainly involves electrical upgrades. Total project costs for the package are estimated at $11.7 million.
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Almost 18 months after a Topeka businessman was found killed in northwestern Douglas County, the investigation into his death remains open, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. Meanwhile, other criminal cases that have seemed to swirl around the homicide have moved forward. A passerby found Corey M. Brown’s body on the Upper River Road, near the BNSF railroad tracks west Brown of Lecompton, on Jan. 5 last year. Family members had reported the developer and father of three missing two days before, after he failed to pick his son up from day care on Jan. 3, according to published reports. His truck and cellphone had been
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The Kansas State Board of Education is scheduled to vote today on whether to adopt a new set of science standards that have already stirred controversy. Page 3A
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