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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]( [Town Talk | Developer eyes another senior housing project for downtown, shifts direction on plans for big 11th and Mass development]( Another affordable senior housing project is likely to develop near the downtown intersection of 11th and New Hampshire streets, Lawrence developer Tony Krsnich told me. [Read More]( [Subscribe Today]( [photo]( [As homeless deaths mount, city and Bert Nash officials say it’ll take significant resources to provide ‘upstream’ solutions]( While deaths among people experiencing homelessness are mounting in Lawrence, some strategies for getting people into safe and stable housing are still months — or even years — from fruition. It’s a challenging dichotomy that leaders with the City of Lawrence and Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center explained to the Journal-World Thursday, the day after the latest in a recent string of homicides involving a victim who was experiencing homelessness — a shooting across the street from the Lawrence Public Library. [Read More]( [Image]( [Spring sports preview: Senior standouts support LHS baseball’s lofty postseason goals]( There’s a bit of added motivation for Lawrence High baseball’s senior-heavy roster this spring after being denied a spot in last year’s state tournament by crosstown rival Free State – the very same team that LHS had cleared in the City Showdown before making its postseason run. [Read More]( [Image]( [Town Talk | With roots in Uruguay and Cuba, new restaurant to bring unique flavors to downtown]( Romina Novick, owner of the soon-to-open Delicias del Sur, 724 Massachusetts St., said the presence of KU made finding fellow South Americans relatively easy in Lawrence. Many of them have a common thought in mind, she said. “We want that South American flavor,” Novick said. “That is something we all share, the wanting and the missing of that home flavor. And we want to bring it to the Lawrence community.” [Read More]( [photo]( [Dickinson and McCullar will not play in Big 12 tournament, but plan on NCAA return]( Hunter Dickinson and Kevin McCullar Jr. will not play in the Big 12 Conference basketball tournament, Kansas coach Bill Self said on his “Hawk Talk” radio show Monday night. [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