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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...

The Origin of Free State’s name

Allison Mayhew February 23, 2022

Once the center of Kansas’s anti-slavery movement, Lawrence now honors its history through Free State High School’s namesake. The movement in Lawrence is separated from other anti-slavery...

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...

NEWS BRIEF: School Board Vows to Keep Buildings Open

Olivia Nagel and Allison Mayhew February 14, 2022

During tonight’s USD 497 Board of Education meeting, members announced that closing schools for the upcoming school year will not be a consideration.  "The proposals in front of us are not the right...

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Balancing the Budget

Natasha Torkzaban, Isis Norris, and Cici Hunter December 13, 2021

Following a week of sound and fury over an announcement to cut the gymnastics program, no one has signed up to address the USD 497 Board of Education at their meeting tonight according to executive...

NEWS BRIEF: Board Extends Fall Break

Natasha Torkzaban, Cici Hunter, and Isis Norris November 12, 2021

School is cancelled Nov. 22 and 23. The USD 497 Board of Education voted 5-2 to extend Fall break at an emergency meeting held today.    Students and staff now have a full week off from...

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Beyond the Rivalry

Nate Ankenbauer, Sports Reporter November 8, 2021

In response to overcrowding in 1997, a third of Lawrence High students transferred to the newly founded Free State High School. From then on out, Bob Billings Parkway would split Lawrence in half,...

News Brief: School Board Election Results

Nisa Khosh, Copy Editor November 3, 2021

  On Nov. 2, voters went to the polls to choose their candidates in the USD 497 Board of Education election. Eleven candidates ran for three positions on the board, with Andrew Nussbuam,...

Cleaning Consequences

October 28, 2021

Okay, so can you kind of explain the devious links that are going on, explain them, or what's going on with that? "Well, if there's a good part to it. It seems to have rapidly come to an end. I have...

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