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Archives for November, 2010
Tweet First year head coach Scott Stein has announced this year’s girls basketball JV-Varsity squad. The team is looking to build on last year’s success, when they won they won a share of the Sunflower League title. But they’ll have to do it without Janna Graf, a Sunflower League MVP who graduated last year after [...]
Tweet So you’re looking for advice on what to do this weekend? Frankly, if you’re anything like us, you’ll be quadrupling your average weekly caloric intake over Thanksgiving, so you probably plan on spending a lot of time on the treadmill in an effort to preempt massive weight gain. But there should be time to [...]
Tweet I am obsessed with baked goods. To give you some idea of just how obsessed, consider the following: I have: a) planned an entire vacation around the possibility of eating the perfect French macaroon; b) scientifically dissected a frosting recipe; c) baked five birthday cakes for a party that included myself and six guests [...]
Tweet SM East senior Dylan Becker, who took home both team MVP and defensive MVP honors after his junior season at shortstop, has signed a letter of intent to play collegiate baseball at Missouri State University in Springfield, Mo. At 6 feet, 175 lbs., the left-handed hitter was a solid college prospect, having made the [...]
Tweet Speaking of money for streets and parks… The Prairie Village city council on Monday considered two fund allocation items totaling $536,000. The first, which was approved unanimously, allocated the $170,000 generated by the city’s mill levy increase to the Capital Improvement Projects fund used for street repairs. The council also voted on how to [...]
Tweet We’ve had a few people write in with questions about why the district is looking into expanding Belinder Elementary at the same time it’s hoping to cut costs by combining the area’s two middle schools. UPDATED: (We should clarify that the money to pay for the school improvements would come from capital funds raised [...]
Tweet Prairie Village held a meeting at city hall last night seeking comments from the community on a proposed set of improvements to Cambridge Street and Weltner Park that are scheduled to be completed in 2011. The most significant outcome of the improvements would be the elimination of an awkward island of land just south [...]
Tweet The Kansas City Star reported earlier this week that Daniel Thomas, a Mission Hills resident and periodonist, had been asked by Gov.-elect Sam Brownback to serve on his inauguration committee. From the Star: In addition to the transition team, Brownback has named four co-chairs to lead his inauguration committee. One of those is Daniel [...]
Tweet Bell | Knott + Associates, the architects designing the UMB building that will go up on the site occupied for nearly 60 years by Roney’s service station, has formally submitted updated construction plans to Prairie Village. The new plans address a few concerns the city’s planning commission had with the original drawings, which had [...]
Tweet Prairie Village police chief Wes Jordan is asking residents to keep an eye out for themselves and their neighbors as the holiday season gets under way. Though the string of television and video game system burglaries that prompted a Code Red neighborhood telephone alert in September has tapered off, Jordan said the department sees [...]
Tweet The 25th Annual lighting of the Mayor’s Holiday Tree will take place at 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2 at Corinth Square. Mayor Ron Shaffer will be joined by Dickens Carloers, the St. Ann’s Elementary School Choir, dancers from Dancerz Unlimited, and, of course, Santa Claus, for the evening’s festivities. The Corinth merchants will also [...]
Tweet The Shawnee Mission School District has submitted a proposal to the Prairie Village planning commission seeking to expand Belinder Elementary School, 7230 Belinder Road. The permit application includes plans for the construction of four new kindergarten classrooms, as well as a kitchen renovation and the installation of an elevator. The application also includes the [...]
Tweet …from $5 to $30. The Prairie Village city council voted unanimously Monday to update its city traffic ordinances to match the Standard Traffic Ordinance recommendations put out by the League of Kansas Municipalities. This included raising the fine for failure to wear a seatbelt from $5 to $30. And in a victory for pocket [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village city council voted unanimously Monday to confirm Bruce McNabb as the new director of public works. McNabb comes to Prairie Village from Polk County, Fla., where he served as the county public works director for four years. He’ll fill the spot that had been occupied by Bob Pryzby for 15 years [...]
Tweet So if you showed up at the Village Shops yesterday with a hankering for fajitas, chances are you were pretty disappointed. Jose Pepper’s, the Tex-Mex restaurant that had been operating out of the space at the intersection of Prairie Lane and Mission Lane, greeted visitors Monday with a sign in the window letting them [...]
Tweet Mike Babick says it will take some long days of work, but his popular — and sometimes controversial — holiday lighting display should be ready for a Thanksgiving night debut. Babick is presently laying the wiring that powers the dozens of animatronic animals and elves in his display. “This part takes a long time, but [...]
Tweet The cell phone tower approved unanimously by the Prairie Village city council this June is currently under construction on the grounds of the Johnson County Fire Department station at 63rd Street and Mission Road, just north of Indian Hills Middle School. The tower will be used by the fire department as well as mobile [...]
Tweet Four local reporters and columnists took a few moments on KCPT’s Kansas City Week in Review this weekend to weigh in on the Shawnee Mission board of education’s meeting last week. The Kansas City Star’s Steve Kraske, who has a child attending middle school in the area, disagreed with his colleague Mike Hendricks’s assessment [...]
Tweet A group of students from St. Anne’s and Indian Hills spent Saturday morning braving the chilly weather and flagging down cars along Roe Avenue in hopes of selling cookies and hot chocolate for their Girl Scout troop (they’ll be at the intersection of Homestead Drive and Roe Avenue until 1 p.m.) If you missed [...]
Tweet The family of Brian Euston has worked with the AdHoc Group Against Crime to establish a fund that will reward up to $35,000 for credible information about what led to the 24-year-old Rockhurst High School graduate’s death in October. Family and friends will be gathering in Westport Sunday morning at 2:30 a.m. — about [...]
Tweet Alas, for the first time in more than ten weeks, there’s no Lancers football to look forward to this weekend. But there’s still plenty of entertaining to be had. Friday, November 12 The SM East theatre department has opened its season with Machinal, the story of a woman and her lover who plot to [...]
Tweet Winter is settling in, folks — I feel it in my bones. Daylight savings and bare tree branches put me in hibernation mode. And when I hunker down for the winter, there is nothing I like more than something warm and cheesy. When I saw cauliflower on sale at the Hen House this week, [...]
Tweet Monday’s pocketing of the proposal to move Brookwood into the SM South feeder pattern and the removal of the Mission Valley vote from the agenda were a relief to many parents. But the outcome of the meeting appeared to leave the door wide open for similar proposals in the not-too-distant future. Vote in our [...]
Tweet What is this, Bizarro World? Tonight Johnny’s Tavern will be packed to the brim with people rooting — and rooting hard — against the Lancers. The Lancers of Longwood University, that is. The Kansas Jayhawks basketball team kicks off its regular season tonight against Longwood, a liberal arts school in Farmville, Virginia. With an [...]
Tweet The SM East football and boys’ soccer seasons may both have come to an end with a first-round playoff loss, but that hasn’t stopped their coaches from being recognized for putting together stellar seasons. Soccer coach Jamie Kelly was named coach of the year by the Sunflower League, and regional co-coach of the year [...]
