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Archives for February, 2011
Tweet Bobby Vickers, one of the two candidates challenging incumbent Tony Liu for the Ward 3 seat on the Fairway city council, responded to our request for information about his campaign earlier this week. Vickers, a vice president at Wells Fargo Insurance Services, said he moved to Fairway because he and his wife thought it [...]
Tweet He loves drums. He loves running. And he wanted to help others. That was the impetus behind SM East senior Andrew Goble’s decision last year to put together the Drum Run 5K, an event that raised more than $10,000 to purchase drumline equipment at Cristo Rey High School in midtown. This year, Goble and [...]
Tweet Prairie Village police report that it’s been almost two weeks since the city has seen one of the through-the-front-door burglaries that have plagued the area these past months — but that isn’t stopping local law enforcement from asking resident to stay on guard. Fairway Police Chief John Simmons sent out an alert email to [...]
Tweet The dense fog that shrouded Kansas City this morning may have made for a sluggish commute, but it created a lovely scene as it lingered around to the birch sycamore trees on Village Drive. If you’ve got any good photos from this morning’s fog, send them our way at stories [at] pvpost.com.
Tweet No matter who ends up winning the election this April, it looks like the Shawnee Mission School Board will be gaining a member who wants greater transparency and more public involvement in the board’s dealings. The four candidates vying for the at-large seat on the board being vacated by Larry Winn participated in a [...]
Tweet Prairie Village city councilman Michael Kelly hosted a small group of supporters at his Buena Vista Street home Tuesday to formally kick off his challenge to incumbent Mayor Ron Shaffer. Kelly told his supporters he was planning on personally knocking on the doors of 2,500 Prairie Village homes over the course of 25 days, [...]
Tweet Parents, teachers and students in the Belinder Elementary community are working to provide clothing, food and other essentials to the Crowell family, which lost its home to a severe fire last Thursday. In this week’s school newsletter, the school’s PTA presidents ask members of the school community to help the Crowells through this difficult [...]
Tweet Chris Backus, a 2000 SM East graduate who moved to Los Angeles and married Oscar-winning actress Mira Sorvino in 2004, was arrested early Sunday morning in San Diego for public drunkenness. According to E! Online, police were called to the Hyatt Regency Islandia hotel where Backus and Sorvino were staying after guests reported hearing [...]
Tweet Tonight the four candidates for the at-large seat on the Shawnee Mission School Board will take part in their first public forum. The forum, which starts at 7 p.m. at Asbury United Methodist Church, 5400 W 75th Street, is sponsored by the Kansas Families for Education Foundation. Based on what you know about the [...]
Tweet The owners of the Antique Mall at Corinth Square are hoping to help police identify a man who walked out of the building Sunday without paying for two statuettes. Two videos captured by a security camera show the suspect in the mall. In the first, he enters wearing a sweater over a white button [...]
Tweet Another local business looks to be the victim of the down economy. Haught Style, the clothing boutique on Tomahawk Road in the Village Shops, will close its doors for good Saturday, Feb. 26 at 5 p.m. The store will be offering its inventory at increasingly discounted prices as its closing date nears. A sign [...]
Tweet Happy Valentine’s Day, Villagers! So what kind of sweet plans do you have for you and your sweetheart?
Tweet CC Creidenberg, a two year varsity soccer play and co-president of the SM East pep club, was crowned 2011 Sweetheart King at the annual Sweetheart Dance Saturday. Creidenberg is also a member of the Croquet Club. (The Sweetheart Queen and her court were crowned during halftime of Friday’s basketball game). The King’s court is [...]
Tweet The Lancers girls varsity basketball team was able to overcome some last second theatrics from SM Northwest Friday night for a win — but the boys’ long slog through the season continued. After junior guard Caroline Nick made one of two free throws, the girls were up 63-60 with just five seconds left as [...]
Tweet SM East crowned half of this year’s Sweetheart court during Friday’s boys varsity basketball game against SM Northwest. Amy Cosgrove, a two year member of the Cross Country team and Choir, was named Sweetheart Queen. She is also the chair of the SHARE program Reach Out and Read. The Queen’s court is as follows: [...]
Tweet As a reminder of why we should all be especially glad that the weather has taken a turn for the warmer, we thought we’d pass along a few photos reader Sally H. sent over of Windsor Park after the blizzard: Please stay warm out, please stay warm out, please stay warm out…
Tweet Yet another SM East grad has made it onto K-State’s shortlist for a prestigious national scholarship. K-State has nominated 2008 SM East graduate Gage Brummer as one of its four finalists for the Barry M. Goldwater scholarships. The scholarships, awarded to up to 300 students nationally, fund as much as $7,500 to pay for [...]
Tweet A house fire today on 73rd Street in Prairie Village between Eaton Street and State Line Road required five engines and firefighters from across Johnson County to quell — but no one was injured in the blaze. Division Chief Gary Lamons of Consolidated Fire District 2 called the house a total loss. Crews encountered [...]
Tweet Curbed, a popular blog looking at big market (and big money) real estate, has turned its attention to the Hall family’s Mission Hills mansions in honor of the fast-approaching Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day has often been accused of being a “Hallmark holiday,” trumped up by retailers to encourage the sale of chocolates, flowers, and, [...]
Tweet The Wichita Eagle earlier this week released its rankings of Kansas schools based on state assessment data, and local schools fare relatively well — though not as well as some of their counterparts in Blue Valley. SM East came in at number 40 out of the 375 Kansas high schools in the newspaper’s rankings, [...]
Tweet By the looks of it, Tony Liu, a Ward 3 representative on the Fairway City Council, is taking his bid for a second term very seriously. Liu has been going door to door talking with Ward 3 residents, and even has campaign signs out, a rarity for city council elections in the area. Liu [...]
Tweet Prairie Village Public Works Director Bruce McNabb and Police Chief Wes Jordan say the Code Red message sent to 11,000 phones and 1,000 email addresses before last week’s blizzard played a pivotal role in helping snow plows clear the streets. Jordan said it appeared residents took the message to heart and stayed home during [...]
Tweet There was a lot of talk leading up to last November’s elections that Kansas’ famously fractured Republican Party had come closer together, setting aside some of the social and economic issues that had divided it in the past in hopes of sweeping state and federal offices. It looks like at least some of that [...]
