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Archives for December, 2010
Tweet It appears that the three men arrested after an attempted burglary near 76th Street and State Line last month may not have been the only culprits responsible for the string of break ins in the area this year. KMBC 9 reported earlier this week that Prairie Village has recorded 11 break ins in December, [...]
Tweet If Prairie Village were to host a contest for best holiday display, I think we can agree it’s pretty clear who would win. I mean, Mike Babick is to holiday decoration what Babe Ruth was to baseball — he’s so good there isn’t a league high enough for the competition to be fair. But [...]
Tweet Prairie Village police made a concerted effort this fall to work with Mike Babick’s Falmouth Street neighbors on minimizing the inconvenience they feel from heavy traffic around his popular Christmas display. Trouble is, the city’s measures don’t seem to have had much impact on a number of the visitors. During a visit to Falmouth [...]
Tweet Chrismas came early for Prairie Village resident Chris O’Boyle. O’Boyle used some money he’d pulled out of a Hen House ATM to buy a scratch-off Kansas lottery ticket, and found out he’d won the game’s top dollar prize: a cool $25,000. He told KMBC he plans to use the money to pay some bills [...]
Tweet Prairie Village police have executed a search warrant in connection to the string of recent graffiti attacks that have marred public spaces around Corinth Square and in Franklin Park. Chief Wes Jordan told the Prairie Village city council Monday that officers had initially targeted one person of interest in their investigation, but after executing [...]
Tweet Fairway this week announced this winners of its “Bright Nights with Holiday Lights” contest. People who participated in the city’s Dec. 11 Holiday Trolley Trip were asked to judge houses as they drove by. The city’s best lights, according to the votes, are at 5939 Delmar (pictured above). The displays at 5714 Windsor Drive [...]
Tweet It’s clear Mike Babick’s popular Christmas display brings cheer to people throughout the Kansas City area. Less clear, however, is what, if anything, the city should do to help alleviate the headaches it’s causing for some of his neighbors. The Prairie Village city council on Monday held a lengthy discussion over how the city [...]
Tweet A Prairie Village resident’s quick thinking Sunday and a few calls from the mayor’s office helped make Christmas merrier for a number of metro-area families in need. Susan Bruce was on a walk by Porter Park Sunday morning and was surprised to see the tree recycling area set up by the city in the [...]
Tweet Mission Hills resident Ann Sundeen’s organization of a 450 person “flash mob” that broke out into the Hallelujah chorus at Crown Center over the weekend attracted the attention of the Kansas City Star — and then the Associated Press and National Public Radio. Listen to Sundeen’s interview with All Things Considered host Robert Siegel [...]
Tweet During a report to the Prairie Village city council Monday, police chief Wes Jordan characterized the arrest of local psychotherapist Thomas Whiteford Scott last week as “substantial,” and confirmed that federal law enforcement agencies were involved in the case. Jordan told the council Scott had been on their radar for some time, but until [...]
Tweet Local interior design aficionados got some sad late last week: The Curious Sofa, the quirky, locally owned furniture and decorations store, will be closing its doors Jan. 15. The business will to continue to operate online. On the store’s blog, owner Debbie Dusenberry said it had been an “important decision in the making,” and [...]
Tweet In just a couple of hours, a recent SM East grad will have a chance to bring home reality show glory. Thomas Henry, who graduated from East in 2008, is part of an a cappella group called The Backbeats, which is made up of students from colleges in southern California. Henry attends USC. The [...]
Tweet Attorney Fred Logan, who chairs the Committee for Excellence, a group that advocates for the Shawnee Mission School District, said on KCPT’s Kansas City Week in Review this weekend that the board of education made the right decision in voting to close Mission Valley and Antioch. Logan, who writes a column for the Kansas [...]
Tweet The Lancers’ best-in-school-history 2010 football season was anchored by standout performances on both offense and defense — a fact confirmed by the recent unveiling of the All-Sunflower League Football Team. Six Lancers, three offensive players and three defensive players, made the first team. Two more were listed on the second team. The players were wide [...]
Tweet Prairie Village citizens seem to want the city council to pursue a new community and aquatic center — but what kind of funding methods they’d support for its construction and operation are not clear. At their last meeting, members of the Prairie Village city council received the results of a survey they’d commissioned gauging [...]
Tweet The Johnson County District Attorney’s office revealed a series of drug charges today against a Prairie Village psychotherapist. Thomas Whiteford Scott, 55, was charged with three counts of possession with intent to distribute marijuana, possession of felony drug paraphernalia, and two counts of using a communication device to facilitate a felony, among other charges. [...]
Tweet A unanimous city council vote Thursday has provided an exemption to the Kansas City, Mo., liquor ordinances and alleviated a legal obstacles towards a summer 2011 opening for Trader Joe’s at Ward Parkway. At issue were the city’s residential density requirements, which only allowed a certain number of packaged liquor licenses to be granted [...]
Tweet With Chrismas Eve just a week away (!!!), there are a handful of fun holiday activities on the docket this weekend — and some Lancers basketball as well. Friday, December 17 The Lancers look to remain unbeaten this season as they head to 2-1 Olathe East. The game starts at 7 p.m. at 14545 [...]
Tweet On cold December mornings, it can be plenty tempting to leave a car running in the driveway to warm up. It can also be plenty tempting for thieves to steal such a car. Police throughout the county are warning residents not to leave unattended cars running after at least half a dozen thefts. The [...]
Tweet Fairway issued a stop work order to the owner of the old Sinclair gas station at 5938 Mission Road last Thursday in response to construction work that was being done without a permit. Construction crews had begun to tear out the pavement outside of the building’s garages. Fairway has advised the owners that they [...]
Tweet Mike Babick’s house might be a seasonal spectacle, but it’s not the only place to see great holiday decorations. Prairie Village’s Candy Cane Lane (known as the 7900 block of Outlook Lane the other 11 months of the year), has experienced a recent resurgence, with every house in the loop displaying some decoration. It’s [...]
Tweet Assuming Mission Valley closes as planned this May, the district will have a major decision to make: what to do with the building. Superintendent Gene Johnson said at Monday’s board meeting the district hadn’t actively explored uses for the building, but suggested several possible options. The district could repurpose it somehow, or it could [...]
Tweet Two months after a massive fireworks display at a Kansas City Country Club wedding flooded local police dispatch lines with questions from confused citizens, the Mission Hills city council has updated its fireworks ordinances. The new rules, which were approved by the council Monday, change the application time to 30 days before the event [...]
Tweet Shawnee Mission School District and Prairie Village officials are working to put plans in place to deal with the traffic generated by combining the Mission Valley and Indian Hills student populations. Superintendent Gene Johnson told the board Monday that after discussing the traffic issues with the city administrator, police and a traffic engineer, they [...]
