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KATELYN HESS, A TRUMPET PLAYER AND JUNIOR AT FREE STATE HIGH SCHOOL, PRACTICES ON NOV. 19 AT FSHS. Hess has been chosen to perform in this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with Macy’s Great American Marching Band alongside approximately 200 high school students from across the country.
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High School, is the second Lawrence resident in as many years to perform with the Macy’s Great American ore than 50 million TV viewMarching Band in the parade. ers tune in every year to watch “I thought I’d try out, like, ‘No big balloons, floats and entertain- deal, try out and see what happens,’” ers fill New York City’s streets in the said Katelyn, who plays trumpet in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. her school’s marching band. “When This year, just like last, they’ll find at the letter came two weeks later, I was least one Lawrencian amid the glitz and really surprised. It was total shock.” spectacle of the Big Apple tradition. Please see MACY’S, page 2A Katelyn Hess, a junior at Free State By Joanna Hlavacek
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rust me, I’m used to shopping centers doing outreach efforts at this time of year. But what’s going on in Lawrence currently is a little different. A potential shopping
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is the 250,000-square-foot shopping center proposed for the southeast corner of Iowa Street and the South Lawrence Trafficway interchange.
Event raises awareness of local sex trafficking By Caitlin Doornbos Twitter: @CaitlinDoornbos
About 20 community members filled a small meeting room at the Lawrence Public Library on Tuesday to learn about human trafficking in Lawrence. Elizabeth Moffitt, human trafficking program coordinator for the Willow Domestic Violence Center, explained the pervasiveness of the crime in Douglas County — a fact most attendees found jarring. Please see EVENT, page 5A
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center has started an advertising campaign in hopes of convincing city commissioners to give the new shopping district permission to open in Lawrence. The project in question
Topeka — Attorney General Derek Schmidt’s office filed briefs with the Kansas Supreme Court this week, arguing that school funding has increased since the Great Recession, that funding is now at record levels, and Kansas students are ex- Schmidt celling in the classroom.
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