Fairway Kansas

Two federal efforts — one in Congress and one at the U.S. Interior Department — could affect the search for marked and unmarked graves at the Shawnee Indian Mission in Fairway and Haskell University in Lawrence.

Founder and president Vivien Jennings, and her husband, Roger Doeren, chief operations officer, are in their 70s – and ready to retire.

The Shawnee Tribe is partnering with the city of Fairway to look into the history of the Shawnee Indian Mission boarding school, and to find if there are any unmarked graves of Native American children.

A federal initiative will investigate historic sites of boarding schools for Native American children, but it's unclear how that will affect the Shawnee Indian Mission in Fairway, Kansas.

Even though Johnson County no longer requires masks to be worn in public, local police departments maintain that reaching a peaceful resolution is preferable to arrests and charges.

Local independent booksellers are fulfilling online orders, hosting virtual reading groups and even asking customers for donations, in order to sustain them through the pandemic.

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