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04/29/2026

04/29/2026

Looking for a volunteer opportunity? Maybe one at a hospital gift shop? We've got just the thing! 😉

If you'd like to join the volunteer crew at the LMH Health Gift Shop, we'd love to hear from you! Visit https://bit.ly/42jAECL to apply and to see other open opportunities.

04/28/2026

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04/17/2026

🔶U.S. 59 to be reduced for K-10/SLT project work
The Kansas Department of Transportation will reduce an area of U.S. 59/Iowa Street in Lawrence next week, as part of the K-10/South Lawrence Trafficway (SLT) project.

Beginning Monday, April 20, U.S. 59 will be reduced to one lane in each direction between the westbound K-10 ramps and N. 1200 Road. The reduction is expected to be in place until early September.

During this time, southbound U.S. 59 traffic will not be able to turn left onto the eastbound K-10 on-ramp. To access eastbound K-10, southbound motorists can follow the marked detour on W. 31st Street and Haskell Avenue or use alternate routes that are not marked.

All project work and traffic changes are conditions permitting and subject to change.

More information about the SLT project is available at ksdot.gov/SLT.

KDOT urges motorists to stay alert and follow posted signs in all work zones. For current road conditions, visit KanDrive.gov or call 511. For updates on highway projects in northeast Kansas, visit ksdot.gov/NortheastNews.

04/17/2026

The Varangian Guard was one of the stranger institutions in medieval history: a corps of Norse and later Anglo-Saxon mercenaries serving as the personal bodyguards of the Byzantine emperors in Constantinople, loyal not to any man but to the office of the throne itself.

They were famously described by Byzantine writers as terrifying in appearance and equipment, enormous axe-wielding warriors from the frozen north who had traveled south through the river systems of the Rus into the heart of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Basil II had recruited the first six thousand from Prince Vladimir of Kiev in 988, deliberately choosing men with no local political loyalties who could be trusted to protect the emperor from the Byzantine aristocracy itself.

By 1034, during the reign of Emperor Michael IV, units of the Guard were wintering in the Thrakesion Theme, the military district covering the interior of western Anatolia.

Spread through the local countryside in their winter quarters, they occupied villages and farmsteads in the manner of soldiers on campaign.

The Chronicle of John Skylitzes, the eleventh-century Byzantine historian whose work is one of the most significant surviving sources for this period, records what happened when one of these men encountered a local woman alone in a remote area.

He attempted to assault her. When she refused, he tried to force her. She pulled his sword, drove it through him, and he died on the spot.

When the news reached the other Varangians quartered in the region, they gathered together. What followed is the part of the story that Skylitzes found worth preserving. They held a thing, the Norse legal assembly that the Guard maintained as its internal court, and passed judgment on what had happened.

Under Norse law, the r**e of a woman was a capital offense punishable by death. The man had received that death at the hands of the person he had tried to harm.

The Guard honored the woman with a wreath, formally recognized her act, and awarded her all of the dead man’s possessions, including whatever valuables and clothing he had with him, some accounts specifying silk garments among them.

They then left his body unburied, a deliberate and significant act in Norse and Varangian custom, treating him as though he had died by his own hand, the most dishonorable death available in their tradition.

04/02/2026

We are looking for some new cleaning bees. Meesage me with your resume if interested or email me at [email protected]

03/18/2026

Happy St Patrick's day!

02/04/2026

We had our holiday staff part at Sunfire Ceramics yesterday. Great place for a party. https://www.facebook.com/share/18D5fAsSbE/

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11/30/2025

Struggling with toilet stains? Learn how to clean toilet stains from the seat, bowl, and base using simple, effective methods.