Can't Miss Stories for Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Growing west of the SLT, STEAM-based curriculum, and more... Email not displaying correctly? [View the web version]( Lock in your subscription rate and save! [LJWorld.com]( Lock in your subscription for 1 year & SAVE $89 for 1 year, all access to LJWorld.com LIMITED TIME OFFER [Subscribe Now]( [Image]( [Town Talk | With $40M of planned projects, 2024 might be the year the city starts to grow west of the SLT]( As part of its capital improvement plan approved earlier this year, the city has designated just more than $40 million worth of improvements that are pretty directly tied to opening up land west of the South Lawrence Trafficway for residential development. [Read More]( [Subscribe Today]( [photo]( [Lawrence school board approves repurposing of Liberty Memorial Central Middle School to STEAM-based curriculum]( The Lawrence school board on Monday unanimously approved the repurposing of Liberty Memorial Central Middle School to a STEAM-based curricular focus beginning with the 2024-25 school year. [Read More]( [photo]( [Johnny’s Tavern, group of Lawrence businesses sue city over homeless camps; suit asks judge to disband camps]( A group of Lawrence businesses is asking a Douglas County court to close a pair of homeless camps, contending the city is creating a “vagrancy crisis” and allowing city laws to be “violated with impunity.” [Read More]( [photo]( [Open house to kick off public engagement process for Lawrence Loop section from 7th Street to Constant Park]( The City of Lawrence is hosting an open house Wednesday to kick off public engagement for another incomplete section of the Lawrence Loop — the stretch from Seventh Street to Constant Park adjacent to downtown Lawrence. [Read More]( [Subscribe Today]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( This message was sent by the Lawrence Journal-World. You are receiving this because at some point in the past you shared your email address with LJWorld.com To opt-out of emails like this, click the link below. [Click here to unsubscribe and manage your email subscriptions.]( Lawrence Journal-World PO Box 888, Lawrence, KS 66044