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These articles are free to read. Email not displaying correctly? [View the web version]( Lock in your subscription rate and save! [LJWorld.com]( The articles below are free to read. Please consider signing up for a subscription to support local journalism. Special offer for newsletter recipients $89 per year [Subscribe Now]( [photo]( [KU alumna describes life as an astronaut aboard the International Space Station during Q&A]( Most question-and-answer sessions don’t involve the person answering the questions casually flipping upside down and floating in midair — but then again, a Q&A Friday afternoon with University of Kansas alumna Loral O’Hara was far from ordinary. [Read More]( [Subscribe Today]( [Image]( [Town Talk | After nearly 15 years, downtown Lawrence once again has a drugstore; Sigler Pharmacy opens along Vermont Street]( “We are kind of in what I call a pharmacy desert,” Sigler said of downtown, which lost its last pharmacy in July 2009 when Round Corner Pharmacy closed. [Read More]( [Image]( [Lawrence residents with special needs in the spotlight at annual Night to Shine prom]( At the annual Night to Shine prom on Friday, area residents with special needs got the royal treatment — walking down the red carpet and being crowned as a king or queen — before hitting the dance floor. [Read More]( [photo]( [Growing up in Lawrence set the foundation for KU alumna who now has key role at startup dedicated to cell sorting technology]( Hyler made a return to KU’s campus during the first couple of days of February to give a presentation about CytoRecovery at the Center of BioModular Multi-Scale Systems for Precision Medicine annual meeting. [Read More]( [photo]( [Langston Hughes fifth-grader repeats as Douglas County Spelling Bee champion]( Maci Perrins, a Langston Hughes Elementary student, won the county spelling bee last year, and she repeated as champion on Saturday, besting 23 other spellers to claim the 2024 county spelling bee title at an event at Lawrence’s Billy Mills Middle School. [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