The Lawrence High’s boys gymnastics team captured its third consecutive state title.

The football team falls in 10-7 loss to Shawnee Mission Northwest in a opening-round 6A playoff game at SM North’s stadium.

The space shuttle Columbia sailed back into space as the first spaceship ever to take a return trip in orbit

School District staff predicts that the Lawrence School District’s 12-year enrollment decline should bottom out in the 1982-83 school year

NBC announces that David Letterman, whose morning show fell victim to low ratings, will return to the network in February of 1982 with a new late-night “free-form talk-variety” show that will follow The Tonight Show.

The Montgomery Ward and Co. Budget Center reopens in the site of the former Ward store on W. 23rd Street, while the Lawrence K-Mart at 31st and Iowa prepares to reopen with a new look and a new line of merchandise after a June 19th tornado struck the store.

The historic Joel Grover barn on Lawrence Ave, south of Clinton Pkwy prepares for a second life as a fire station.

“Physical” by Olivia Newton-John tops the Billboard Magazine singles list, while “4” by Foreigner tops the albums list.

Back In The Day
November 2 – 8, 1981
November 16 – 22, 1981