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pallet home project, SLT landscaping 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]( [photo]( [Town Talk | Speculation grows that city is interested in locating homeless project along Haskell Avenue; county-owned site near shelter not in the running]( There are indications that the city is interested in a site north of 19th and Haskell to locate a unique “pallet home” project that would provide small shelters for about 75 individuals who are homeless. Not in the running for the project is a county-owned site near the Lawrence Community Shelter. [Read More]( [Subscribe Today]( [photo]( [City leaders to consider spending additional $1.36M to landscape entry points as part of SLT expansion]( City leaders will soon decide how much extra money, if any, they would like to spend to landscape entry points to the city as part of the upcoming expansion of the South Lawrence Trafficway. [Read More]( [Image]( [Letters from a long-ago war inspire KU history student recovering from his own trauma]( Sometimes a letter can make a reader gasp even a century after it is sent. Rick McNabb learned this in 2018, seated beside his wheelchair in the quiet of the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas, researching the papers of Pfc. Walter F. Bopp, who served in Company F of the U.S. Army’s 359th Infantry in World War I. As McNabb dug into Bopp’s letters from the Western Front, it was slow going until he picked up one that looked different. [Read More]( [photo]( [Big 12 coaches name Kansas forward Jalen Wilson unanimous conference player of the year]( After leading the Big 12 in both scoring and rebounding for the grueling 18-game season that wrapped up on Saturday, Kansas forward Jalen Wilson has been named the conference’s player of the year by the league’s coaches. [Read More]( [photo]( [After decades of globe-trotting, Lawrence painter finds art is truly ageless]( A trip to another country has inspired many an artist, including Lawrence painter Wendy Rose, who, after a lifetime living abroad, has stored up more artistic fuel than most. [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