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Archives for October, 2010
Tweet They’re both 6-1. They’re both at the top of the Shawnee Mission and Sunflower League standings. And on Friday night, they’ll be going head to head under the spotlight of area TV cameras. This weekend’s game between SM East and SM West has drawn enough attention around the Kansas City metro that it was [...]
Tweet A 2009 school district committee report has some local parents wondering whether part of the motivation to close Mission Valley and move Brookwood students into the SM South feeder pattern comes from a desire to preserve SM South’s 6A sports status. The Middle School Configuration Committee report obtained by the Save Mission Valley group [...]
Tweet It might be an easy target in rough economic times — but don’t hang the pool out to dry. That was the message from an article on the front page of Fairway’s most recent quarterly newsletter, which came out last week. During the often contentious public hearings about Fairway’s proposed 2011 budget this summer, [...]
Tweet The Northeast Johnson County Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual dinner Nov. 20 at the Overland Park Marriott, 10800 Metcalf Ave. The evening will feature a silent and live auction, as well as dinner and dancing. Organizers predict attendance of around 300 guests. Tickets cost $95 per person, or $180 per couple. For [...]
Tweet When Rebekah Tobin saw the patient’s chart she could hardly believe it. On the unit where she worked as a nurse at St. Luke’s, Tobin was used to dealing mostly with older patients, so seeing a 32-year-old with lung cancer was strange enough. But when she realized the name belonged to her friend and [...]
Tweet The SM East girls golf team finished third place overall in the state tournament at Manhattan Country Club yesterday. Anne Willman finished with a team best 81, and took fifth place in the individual competition. Blue Valley North won the tournament for the second year in a row. The finish was somewhat disappointing in [...]
Tweet Members of the Prairie Village city council and police chief Wes Jordan are concerned about what impact the proposed closure of Mission Valley would have on local traffic. In response to a report on the potential impacts of the proposal delivered by assistant city administrator Dennis Enslinger, council members at last night’s meeting expressed [...]
Tweet SM East senior Henry Foster was crowed this year’s Homecoming King at the annual Homecoming Dance this Saturday. Foster been a four year member of the cross country team, on the swim and dive team for three years, and is an Eagle Scout. He competed at state with the swim and dive team twice. [...]
Tweet The third time was a charm for Mimi Fotopolous. After coming up short in her two previous trips to the 6A state singles championship, the SM East junior knocked of Blue Valley North junior Madison Rhyner 6-4, 6-1 to take this year’s crown. Fotopolous finished the season undefeated at 23-0. East’s top doubles team, [...]
Tweet The months-long renovation of Franklin Park is nearing its end — though whether the contractor will be able to finish by the end of October as hoped remains to be seen. Prairie Village interim director of public works Keith Bredehoeft told the city council at its last meeting that the contractor was having issues [...]
Tweet SM East senior Betsy Blessen was crowed Homecoming Queen during halftime of the Lancers’ game against Blue Valley North on Friday. Blessen won a school-wide vote held earlier in the week. She’s been a Student Council class representative for four years, on the cross country team for two, and has participated in Pack of [...]
Tweet What a difference a quarter makes. After falling behind 7-20 to Blue Valley North in the first 12 minutes of Friday’s Homecoming Game, the Lancers hit the gas pedal in the second quarter and never looked back. They won 55-34, improving to 6-1 on the season. Another win will place them the among the [...]
Tweet If the thought of going to the last weekend of the Renaissance Festival or heading downtown for the haunted houses 1.) seems like a lot of work, and/or 2.) doesn’t sound like much fun, check out these (sort of ) local happenings instead: Friday, October 15: Shawnee Mission East homecoming. The Lancers try to [...]
Tweet By the looks of things so far, it could be a banner year for fall foliage enthusiasts. A spectrum of warm oranges and reds have started to appear on trees throughout the area, and the yellows are on their way, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation’s foliage update yesterday: Fall colors are developing [...]
Tweet A makeshift memorial to Brian Euston, the 24-year-old son of the family that has run Euston Harware for two generations, has popped up at the intersection of Mill Street and Westport Road in Westport. The memorial is near the spot where Euston, who died Tuesday after two days in the hospital, was found lying [...]
Tweet It turns out a lot of people around here are interested in having their kids go to college. Hundreds of local high school students and their parents packed the halls, classrooms, cafeteria and gymnasium at SM East last night for the 48th annual Shawnee Mission College Clinic. More than 250 colleges and universities sent [...]
Tweet After 33 days of drilling, the 33 Chilean miners who’d been trapped underground since Aug. 5 are all back safely on the surface thanks to the work of a 128-year-old company based in Mission Woods, Kan. Layne Christensen Co., which manages drilling projects around the world, pulled two of its best drillers from other [...]
Tweet UPDATE: Star readers representative Derek Donovan has changed the headline that ran on the paper’s initial story in response to questions about use of the term “beating” when authorities said they haven’t yet determined what caused the injuries that led to the death. The Kansas City Star reported today that 24-year-old Brian Euston, son [...]
New data show Mission Valley and Indian Hills both outpace state and district in reading and writing
Tweet The Kansas Department of Education is celebrating the release of this year’s school assessment data, which shows a remarkable improvement in reading and math scores across the state over the past decade. But some of that good news might not have local parents celebrating. Figures show that both Mission Valley and Indian Hills middle [...]
Tweet The Mission Hills city council has approved a renewal agreement with the city of Prairie Village for police services. Prairie Village has provided police protection to Mission Hills for a number of years. The contract between the cities has Mission Hills paying Prairie Village a total of $1,278,351 for patrols conducted by four squad [...]
Tweet Fairway police are warning local residents about a group of traveling salesmen who may be employing aggressive — and potentially illegal — door-to-door sales tactics. According to a memo sent from Fairway police chief John Simmons to mayor Jerry Wiley, a large sales staff has recently taken up residence at an Overland Park motel. [...]
Tweet Police chief Wes Jordan told the Mission Hills city council on Monday that his department was looking into the effect the proposed closure of Mission Valley would have on traffic around Indian Hills. Jordan said that he was working with the district to get a better understanding of how large a traffic increase the [...]
Tweet Brookside Optical at the Village Shops is set to host a grand opening celebration Friday, Oct. 22 with food, music, drinks, a “contest that should knock everyone’s socks off,” and a grand prize giveaway of a 10-day trip for two. But the celebration won’t be all fun and games — it will do some [...]
Tweet The Mission Hills city council agreed on Monday to revisit its fireworks ordinance in light of the high volume of complaints it received following a display at Kansas City Country Club two weeks ago. The 10-minute display, which was part of a wedding reception, prompted 70 calls to the Prairie Village and Mission Hills [...]
Tweet KCP&L reported this evening that approximately 150 of its customers in northern Johnson County, the majority of whom were in Prairie Village, lost power on Monday afternoon. Most of the affected had power restored within an hour. A KCP&L spokeswoman said the outage was most likely caused by an equipment failure that resulted from [...]
