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The student-run news site of Lawrence Free State High School

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The student-run news site of Lawrence Free State High School

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Limit on Learning

Limit on Learning

  It started with signs posted in December banning food and drinks from the Learning Stairs. Now, students can no longer use them at all.  Freshman Isabel Miller, who frequently used the...

Graber Announces Retirement

Graber Announces Retirement

Isis Norris, Alicia Narum, and Natasha Torkzaban February 21, 2022

After a 47-year education career, Principal Myron Graber announced his retirement this week.  “It's time to enjoy some other parts of life,” Graber said. Working across smaller towns in Kansas...

INTERVIEW: Attendance Answers

Allison Mayhew, Evan White, and Maddie Base February 7, 2022

INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT First, how does truancy work and how is it handled? The truancy is based on a certain number of absences that you have consecutive absences that you have in a row. And...

A Lawrence Police Department vehicle parked near the scene of the incident. Students were alarmed by the sudden presence of emergency services during their lunch period.

Student injured after dangerous jump into nearby pond

Darby Gilliland and Mariah Houston May 19, 2016

The sirens from nearby police cars, ambulances and fire trucks startled the students and faculty on May 9, 2016. A sophomore had dove head-first into the shallow pond on private property near Free State....

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