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- New turnpike signs boast of KU’s 2008 accomplishments
- Orange Bowl, basketball championship, academic research all mentioned
- July 2, 2008
- Between bouts of rain and trips to the trucks to avoid lightning, Kansas Turnpike Authority workers Wednesday raised a new exit sign to three I-beams along Interstate 70 east of Lawrence.
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- City manager proposes hold-the-line budget
- Bus system in peril if voters don’t approve sales tax hike in November
- July 3, 2008
- City Manager David Corliss presented a recommended 2009 city budget on Thursday that bets heavily on a new sales tax to save the city’s public transit system, and largely bets against a quick turnaround in the local economy.
- Annual tea to discuss breast cancer
- July 3, 2008
- Lawrence Memorial Hospital is hosting the 10th annual Betsy Beisecker Memorial Tea from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday to raise awareness about breast cancer.
- Youth swim meet to affect pool hours
- July 3, 2008
- The Aquatics Division of the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department will host the Wave the Wheat Meet from July 10 through July 13 at the Indoor Aquatic Center, 4706 Overland Drive.
- Fireworks set at lake
- July 3, 2008
- Lawrence’s annual July Fourth fireworks display will light up the sky about 10 p.m. Friday at Clinton Lake.
- Two men charged with robbery on east side
- July 3, 2008
- Two men have been charged in Douglas County District Court with robbing a man early Sunday on Lawrence’s east side.
- State champions make good on bet
- July 2, 2008
- A group of state champions makes good on a bet in downtown Lawrence this afternoon.
- Highway project closes down popular fueling stop
- July 2, 2008
- Pumps at a popular fueling stop along 59 Highway are dry - for good. And, it's all to make way for a new highway project.
- Sheriff’s lieutenant killed in bicycle accident laid to rest
- July 2, 2008
- The Douglas County Sheriff's Department saw an outpouring of support from area law enforcement agencies as funeral services were held for one of their own.
- Burrito King hit with $1,250 health department fine
- July 2, 2008
- Burrito King’s owner owes a $1,250 fine after health inspectors in April uncovered several health code violations.
- Study of honeybee navigation may bring engineering advances
- July 2, 2008
- Bees. They can be a nuisance, hovering around picnics and menacing pets and children. But researchers at Kansas University think they might be the key to harnessing new types of engineering technology. Rudolf Jander, professor of animal behavior, and two students, Jason Palikij and Daniel Najera, are studying how European honeybees find their way back to their hives when disoriented.
- Fireworks displays are planned for area
- July 2, 2008
- Fireworks show junkies have plenty of options to get their fill this weekend for the Fourth of July. In Lawrence, the big show was moved to Clinton Lake this year from the Kansas River. The Sesquicentennial Point fireworks display by the Lawrence Jaycees will begin at 10 p.m. Friday.
- Bids to be accepted for road repaving
- July 2, 2008
- City commissioners aren’t betting on oil prices declining anytime soon.
- Light OK’d for N.H. St. crosswalk
- July 2, 2008
- Pedestrians won out over a tight city budget Tuesday night. City commissioners at their weekly meeting approved a request for a new $35,000 pedestrian-activated crosswalk for the portion of New Hampshire Street between the Lawrence Arts Center and the city-owned parking garage.
- Bid approved for traffic-calming devices
- July 2, 2008
- A project to construct speed cushions on Lawrence Avenue between Ninth Street and Harvard Road is moving forward.
- Chabon, Walls among series’ speakers
- July 2, 2008
- Kansas University announced the 2008-2009 schedule for the Hall Center for the Humanities Lecture Series.
- Tonganoxie water park open to the public
- July 1, 2008
- The Tonganoxie water park is open for business and filled to near capacity on opening day.
- Alcohol available for purchase in Tonganoxie for the Fourth of July
- July 1, 2008
- People in Tonganoxie will be able to buy alcohol within the city for the Fourth of July.
- Part of Jayhawk Blvd. to be closed Wednesday
- July 1, 2008
- An eastbound section of Jayhawk Boulevard near Wescoe Hall will be closed from 2 to 10 p.m Tuesday, Kansas University officials announced Tuesday.
- Two teens detained after burglary at Deerfield School
- 11:32 a.m., July 1, 2008 Updated 12:00 a.m.
- Lawrence police took an 18-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy into custody early Tuesday morning in connection with a burglary and theft at Deerfield School, 101 Lawrence Ave.
- Antique cars make way through Lawrence
- July 1, 2008
- Blasts from the past rolled into Lawrence on Tuesday. About 22 different years and models of the Hupmobile, manufactured from 1909 to 1941 in Detroit, found their way to the Dole Institute of Politics on Kansas University’s West Campus. The touring cars were celebrating the Hupmobile’s 100th anniversary.
- EPA pumped up about new Zarco station
- July 1, 2008
- Scott Zaremba sells a variety of so-called “flex” fuels, illuminates his fuel pumps with compact fluorescent light bulbs and grows grass that doesn’t require mowing on the roof of his soon-to-open coffee shop at Ninth and Iowa streets. Next up in his environmental drive: installation of solar panels to go on top of the canopy. And an electricity-generating wind turbine is on order.
- Teen arrested in car burglaries
- July 1, 2008
- A 19-year-old Eudora man was arrested Saturday during an investigation into a series of car burglaries, Eudora Police Chief Greg Dahlem said.
- Apartment fire ruled an accident
- July 1, 2008
- Lawrence-Douglas County Fire & Medical officials are calling a small fire Monday morning at an apartment complex an accident.
- Broken water line caused sinkhole
- July 1, 2008
- A sinkhole that appeared late last week in the East Hills Business Park was caused by a water line break, city officials said. The gaping hole, about 5 feet wide, between the 3700 and 3800 blocks of Greenway Circle, will be repaired this week.
- Arson charge filed in mobile home fire
- July 1, 2008
- A Lawrence man has been charged with setting a mobile home on fire earlier this month.
- Vehicle crash knocks out power
- July 1, 2008
- A noninjury motor vehicle accident Monday afternoon disrupted power in north-central Lawrence. The accident, which occurred at the intersection of North Iowa Street and Kresge Road, caused a “wide power outage,” according to a Lawrence police dispatcher.
- Offices, services closed for Fourth of July
- July 1, 2008
- Government offices and public services in Lawrence will be closed Friday in observance of Independence Day. They also will be closed in most area towns.
- Friday Fourth of July expected to be a blast
- Vendors upbeat; lake ready
- July 1, 2008
- The Fourth of July is coming, and area parks and merchants are preparing for a big bang. “I’m sure there will be thousands of people here as usual,” said Kyle Broockerd, park ranger at Perry Lake. “I’d say the Fourth of July is our busiest weekend of the year.” And there’s every reason to expect Clinton Lake to be a major attraction this weekend.
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