Can't Miss Stories for Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Special subscription offer inside! Email not displaying correctly? [View the web version]( Lock in your subscription rate and save! [LJWorld.com]( [Subscribe Now]( [photo]( [After illness, injury and weeks of training in the Himalayas, northeast Kansas man reaches the top of Mount Everest]( For years, Olathe’s Rhett Evans had his sights set on climbing Mount Everest. But when he got to Nepal this spring — and got very sick with a parasite — it was possible he might not even make it to base camp. But Evans, who works in Lawrence as CEO of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, wasn’t about to quit. [Read More]( [Subscribe Today]( [photo]( [A look at how major changes to the city’s bus service — from Sunday on-demand rides to a brand-new station — have been received 6 months in]( Though there aren’t many people milling about inside the city’s brand-new bus station on a Tuesday afternoon in early June, there’s still plenty going on behind the scenes. That’s because the bus station — Central Station near Bob Billings Parkway and Crestline Drive — is just one of a bevy of significant changes for the City of Lawrence’s transit office since the beginning of 2024. [Read More]( [Image]( [Lawrence school district begins summer meal program with two daily lunch locations and weekly take-home meal kits]( School is out for summer, but more than 1,000 Lawrence children are getting a near-daily reminder of local schools nonetheless. [Read More]( [photo]( [Republican strategist says he is the legitimate chair of Kansas’ No Labels party; he says national party failed to complete necessary paperwork to retain control]( A Republican strategist who filed paperwork nominating a Lawrence lawmaker as a candidate of the No Labels party against her will has acknowledged that the party’s nominating convention was hardly a convention at all. [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