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The ‘love’ garage on Mississippi Street, a favorite backdrop for photos, has been painted over with a whole new sentiment
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TOPEKA — The Kansas Board of Regents on Thursday approved a nearly 14 percent pay increase for Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little. The $60,000 increase will bring her annual salary to $492,650. Kansas State University President Kirk Schulz also received a $60,000 raise as the regents handed out pay hikes to leaders of all the state universities. The pay raises will be funded through private dollars at the foundations of the individual schools, the re- Gray-Little gents said. “We have six of the finest chief executive officers that we could ever ask for,” said Regent Chairman Tim Emert, of Independence. “We are doing everything we can to keep them in those positions,” he said. Regent Dan Lykins, of Topeka, said the uniPlease see RAISE, page 2A
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THROUGH THE YEARS Lawrencians have celebrated romantic moments in front of the ‘love’ garage at 1200 Mississippi St., including, clockwise from bottom left, Liz Coleman and her husband, Kyle; Jobetta Hedelman and Ty Beaver; Jaime and Matt Dupy; Kelly Heavey and Adam Collins; Chris and Rachel Vague; and, center, Lacey Hunsinger and Daniel Simonson. At bottom right is the painted-over garage. See the photo gallery at LJWorld.com.
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Some deplore, some welcome mysterious end of ‘love’ By Giles Bruce gbruce@ljworld.com
As many of us know, love doesn’t always last forever. So it goes, as well, with Lawrence’s “love” garage. The garage door on Mississippi Street across from Memorial Stadium that has acted as a background for
numerous engagement and wedding photos has been painted over. The how, why, when and who parts, however, are still unknown. Lawrence residents took to social media to express their displeasure with the new (technically illegal) work of public art. Some even talked of restoring it
of random tagging for decades. Even the “love” message itself was an act of vandalism. One day about six years ago, owner Deb Spencer decided she had had enough of the defacement. She painted the garage red. Please see LOVE, page 2A
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to the way it was before. “Boo! Who would do that!?” Gina DeBacker reacted after seeing a photo of the new paint job on Facebook. She and her husband, A.J., took their anniversary photos in front of it last year. In truth, however, the garage has been the site
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