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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]( [What to expect when Lawrence’s ban on single-use plastic bags takes effect in March]( In just a couple of weeks, shoppers in Lawrence will be a little more limited in how they’re able to carry their purchases home from the store. That’s because March 1 is the day that the city’s new ordinance banning single-use plastic bags takes effect. [Read More]( [Subscribe Today]( [Image]( [Local History: After Quantrill’s Raid, a Lawrence church became a morgue]( On the east side of the 700 block of Vermont Street, you can see a small bronze plaque on a brick building at about eye level. It tells of a First Methodist Church that once stood there, which was built in 1857 and was used as morgue following Quantrill’s Raid on Aug. 21, 1863. [Read More]( [Image]( [Regents push for plan that would require all elementary teachers to take new classes in teaching students how to read]( If a new plan by higher education leaders becomes reality, every elementary teacher in Kansas will have to take a new set of classes to become better at teaching young students how to read. They also might get paid to take those classes, and have the state pay their tuition if they want to go over and above the requirements by taking graduate level coursework in the “science of reading.” [Read More]( [photo]( [New Mass St. Collective executive director Stowers talks current NIL challenges, targeting ‘the common fan’]( Keon Stowers may have been a student-athlete for the Kansas football team in the early 2010s, long before the rise of name, image and likeness money in college athletics, but he saw the seeds being planted even then. [Read More]( [photo]( [A new census will gather data about the Lawrence area’s music industry for the first time]( For the first time, a census will capture data about Lawrence’s local music scene with eyes toward gathering measurable information about people who do music-related work to provide them with better support. [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