Rochelle Valverde
City Government and Neighborhood News Reporter at Lawrence Journal-World
Freelance journalist. You can read my work in my hometown paper, @LJWorld.
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Oct 27, 2024 |
www2.ljworld.com | Rochelle Valverde
Amid an election year where much is made of what divides us, an upcoming community Día de los Muertos event will pay tribute to deceased loved ones with a special focus on what connects us. The community group Somos Lawrence, which is hosting the event in partnership with the Senior Resource Center for Douglas County and the Percolator Artist Collective, will dedicate this year’s main altar to the lives of departed grandparents and elders.
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Oct 20, 2024 |
www2.ljworld.com | Rochelle Valverde
Lawrence author Amy Stuber has steadily published her short stories in magazines for years. Literary agents inquired, multiple manuscripts were sent out, but the book deal never came. Now, more than 30 years since her first short story was published, she’s out with her debut. Stuber’s short story collection “Sad Growups,” published by Stillhouse Press, came out this month and includes 17 stories.
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Oct 11, 2024 |
www2.ljworld.com | Rochelle Valverde
Pulitzer Prize winning-author Louise Erdrich said it was her first job pulling sugar beets that inspired her to write her new novel “The Mighty Red.” As she worked in the fertile soil of the Red River Valley as a teenager, she could see change was coming. “It changed from a place where there were a lot of smaller farms into a place where the farms got bigger and bigger and bigger,” Erdrich told a full crowd at Haskell Indian Nations University on Saturday evening.
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Oct 4, 2024 |
www2.ljworld.com | Rochelle Valverde
As soldiers fall left and right during the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in U.S. history, two figures stand out among the mayhem. Nurse Clara Barton is coming to the aid of one of the wounded young men, who is actually not a man at all, but a woman who disguised herself as a man to remain by her boyfriend’s side, even in war.
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Sep 12, 2024 |
www2.ljworld.com | Rochelle Valverde
While the cartoons bring the imagined to the screen, the Queen’s Cartoonists bring the soundtrack to the stage. The six-member jazz band, which will perform at the Lied Center later this month, plays in synchronization with classic and contemporary animated films, throwing in penny whistles and other sound effects to accompany what’s happening on screen.
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Always nice to meet some of the talented people we have right here at home in Lawrence, KS. Read about @amy_stuber_ 's new collection of short stories "Sad Grownups," which she launched at @ravenbookstore this month. https://t.co/Vsk33nqwgW https://t.co/FprdA4M1pl
Author Louise Erdrich speaks at Haskell about new novel, growth of Indigenous works https://t.co/zvR09Or3Ly https://t.co/uc4DH8xu5n
In his live show, opening at @libertyhall in Lawrence on Friday, popular podcaster @ProfGregJackson wants to tell the human stories behind U.S. history https://t.co/nBrztCB0VA https://t.co/ZXNzmfKzjU