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Tweet Whether you are spending a low-key night at home with the spouse and kids or partying with friends until dawn, chances are that tonight you will be imbibing from a bottle of bubbly. But what to buy? Our friends at Rimann Liquors were kind enough to offer their top picks in a variety of [...]
Tweet Many area residents had a rude awakening just a bit before 5 a.m. Friday morning, when a winter thunderstorm brought a noisy barrage of pea-sized hail. The hail wasn’t large enough to have done much damage, but sub-zero temperatures combined with the hail and rain are making for slick conditions. Motorists are encouraged to [...]
Tweet PV is starting 2011 off with a new look online. The city of Prairie Village Thursday unveiled a new Web site that had been several months in the making. The new site features an improved user interface and navigation, as well as deeper and more robust content, including a brief history of the city, [...]
Tweet Ah, New Year’s Eve: a holiday equally loved and loathed. Loved by party animals and those excited to turn the page and open up a fresh chapter. Loathed by introverts and those who can’t understand what’s “fun” about staying up until midnight just to be surrounded by a writhing horde of sweaty, drunken yokels. [...]
Tweet A blustry wind and soft light from a winter sunrise made for a beautiful scene this morning, with low, fast-moving gray clouds passing over pink ones high up in the sky:
Tweet As burglary continues to pose a threat to area homes during the holiday season, police officers are reminding residents of a few precautionary steps they can take to help lower the chance they will be hit. Prairie Village police crime prevention officer Matt Boggs said a number of the most recent burglaries have occurred [...]
Tweet The filing deadline for April’s Mission Hills city council election is fast approaching. Three of the city’s five city council seats will be up for election April 11, and interested candidates must put in their “Declaration of Intention Filing Form” to City Hall by noon on Jan. 25. The filing fee is $5. The [...]
Tweet The statewide ban on texting while driving passed by the Kansas legislature goes into effect Saturday, and local law enforcement agencies are set to enforce it. Prairie Village police captain Tim Schwartzkopf said the state hasn’t provided agencies with specific instructions for enforcing the law, but officers will be on the lookout for people [...]
Tweet Prairie Village’s Braly family is still holding out hope that a missing child will find its way back to their Candy Cane Lane house. A cutout of Cindy Lou Who (“Who is no more than 2,” according to Dr. Seuss), was taken from their house the night of Dec. 23. The Bralys moved into [...]
Tweet The packages underneath it have been unwrapped. The needles are starting to dry out and fall quickly. Christmas is over, and that means it’s time to start thinking about taking down the Christmas tree. Both Town & Country Disposal and Deffenbaugh Industries, the two waste removal companies serving the area, will take trees free [...]
Tweet The federal lawsuit against the Kansas school funding formula filed by a group of Mission Valley parents has a new hurdle to overcome. The Kansas City Star reported that a group of parents from districts in Hutchinson, Dodge City, Kansas City, Kan., and Wichita filed a motion to intervene in the suit yesterday, claiming that [...]
Tweet The New York Times recently released a robust interactive map that pits data estimates from recent U.S. Census surveys against data from the 2000 Census. The maps provide a compelling visualization of a number of social and economic realities in our area. For instance, a map depicting the percent of elementary students in private [...]
Tweet It took 2010 SM East graduate Janna Graf a few weeks to get onto the Yale University basketball court, but once she did, good things started to happen. Graf missed the first three games of the season with mononucleosis, but came up big for the Yale Bulldogs in their Dec. 18 game against No. [...]
Tweet Curious Sofa certainly isn’t closing up shop due to lack of interest in its products. The first day of the store closing sale drew a huge crowd on Sunday, with lines for the cash registers literally winding through the store. An hour after the start of the sale many of the goods, which were [...]
Tweet As we head into the last week of 2010, it’s time for a bit of reflection. So we’re asking our readers what they think the biggest story of the year was. Was it the Shawnee Mission School District’s prolonged debate over and eventual vote on the closing of Mission Valley? Was it the rash [...]
Tweet Unfortunately, one family in Prairie Village isn’t getting to celebrate Christmas together today. A cutout of Cindy Lou Who was stolen from the yard of 7909 Outlook Lane Dec. 23, rendering incomplete the scene from “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas” on display. Eight other Whoville cutouts, as well as the Grinch, remain in the [...]
Tweet To all our readers in Prairie Village, Fairway, Mission Hills, Leawood and Overland Park, we wish you a very merry Christmas!
Tweet The big moment has arrived. And the winner…of the first annual PVPost.com Top Three Extravagant Holiday Displays at Houses Not Owned by Mike Babick contest…is…8530 Barkley! Owner Edmund Kobylinski has been decorating his house for about 15 years, and said he adds a little with each new holiday season. He maxed out the number [...]
Tweet Pembroke Hill graduate and Mission Hills native Bobby Bollier, who is currently a junior at Stanford University, made it to the final heat of the 200 meter butterfly competition at the 2010 FINA Short Course World Swimming Championships in Dubai last week. Bollier swam a personal best 1:53.26 in the preliminaries. The 1:53.61 he [...]
Tweet Corinth Elementary fifth grader Elle Green and Tomahawk Elementary third-grader Henry Harrison’s love of art and books recently brought them accolades in a area-wide art contest. Kansas City Price Chopper’s annual Bag You Book competition has local students pick a book they read in class or on their own and then design a new [...]
Tweet Yesterday weather forecasters were by and large predicting snow with accumulation of more than an inch. Today, the forecasts seem to be calling for a mix of ice and rain. Weather Underground’s hourly forecast for the area has a 90 percent change of “ice pellets” falling until 3 p.m., after which it may change [...]
Tweet Don’t worry PVPost.com readers: the wait is finally over. We’re pleased to announce that the number two position in our Top Three Extravagant Holiday Displays at Houses Not Owned by Mike Babick is…7807 Windsor! Frankly, the photo doesn’t really do it justice. There are about three more inflatables, including a Grinch and Homer Simpson, [...]
Tweet Plaid Tidings, the holiday edition of the popular stage show Forever Plaid, has been running at the American Heartland Theatre at Crown Center since November — and features a homecoming performance from a 1999 SM East graduate. Grant Golson, who plays Smudge in the show, now lives in New York with his wife Liz, [...]
Tweet Don’t be surprised if you feel like things look a little brighter when driving down 79th Street at night. As part of a KCP&L test program with trials in Prairie Village, Gladstone, Liberty, St. Joseph and Blue Springs, the utility has replace 44 high pressure sodium street lights throughout the metro area with more [...]
Tweet Opening night at Mike Babick’s Falmouth Street Christmas display. Kansas City-based videographer and photographer Austin Walsh worked with partners Dustin Shirer and Glendon Scott on a feature about Mike Babick’s Falmouth Street Christmas display. If you haven’t seen the display for yourself, this video capture the experience well: BELIEVE from Austin Walsh on Vimeo.
