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Archives for May, 2011
Tweet Well, Village people, we’ve got good news and bad news. First the bad: the world may end tomorrow. There’s just no getting around it. But on the plus side, if Family Radio’s Harold Camping somehow managed to miscalculate Judgment Day yet again, there are a lot of really great activities planned for tomorrow: First, [...]
Tweet I apologize for the plethora of dessert/berry posts. When berries are on sale at the Hen House (as they have been for the majority of the last 8 weeks), I just can’t help myself! Unfortunately, as we all know, the problem is that those low prices sometimes mean low quality. Not to worry: with [...]
Tweet Pizza 51 owner Jason Pryor and his family held a small groundbreaking ceremony recently on the site of their new restaurant, Pizza 51 West, to be located in the vacated service station at the intersection of Mission Road and 59th Street. Pryor was able to move forward with plans for the restaurant, which will [...]
Tweet Reader Laura M. sent along this photo of a ducky that decided to take a break in her backyard pool: We figured it presented us a chance to pass along this shot of a yellow-shafted Northern Flicker that was trying (unsuccessfully) to avoid the rain in our backyard this afternoon:
Tweet The rain held off just long enough for a lovely spring graduation ceremony for the class of 2011. Congrats, Lancers!
Tweet At Wednesday’s neighborhood meeting on the proposal to build a new CVS building at Corinth Square, LANE4 executives Owen Buckley and Jeff Berg unveiled a concept for renovations to the center’s layout. The proposal include eliminating the two current access points along Mission Road and replacing them with a single access point roughly halfway [...]
Tweet We know it’s not perfect — but we’re trying. That was the message LANE4 executives Owen Buckley and Jeff Berg conveyed to Prairie Village residents Wednesday night at a neighborhood meeting on the proposal to build a new CVS building on the site of the abandoned Tippin’s restaurant at Corinth Square. In their comments, [...]
Tweet SM East administrators are still planning on holding tonight’s graduation ceremony outdoors, but are keeping a close eye on the weather. Current forecasts show a 40 percent chance of showers at 7 p.m., the scheduled start time for the ceremony. The school’s Web site says administrators will make an announcement between 3 and 4 [...]
Tweet The firm working on plans for a renovated Weltner Park submitted drawings to the Prairie Village Parks and Recreation Committee last week, unveiling their concept for the larger, unified park that will emerge after streetwork in the area is completed later this year. Public Works’ plans for Cambridge Street call for the rerouting of [...]
Tweet The Kansas City Star reports that Marti Hall, the Fontana Street woman found near death at the bottom of her basement stairs last September, took the stand in a Johnson County courtroom Tuesday during a hearing for her alleged attacker, Brian K. Pennington. Hall told the court that Pennington, who she had recently hired [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village City Council on Monday adopted a formal travel expense reimbursement policy, addressing an issue that got considerable attention in the weeks leading up to last month’s mayoral election. By a vote of 11-1, the council approved a travel policy that moves to a per diem system. Council members will be provided [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village City Council asked Police Chief Wes Jordan in January whether hiring more police officers could help curb crime in the area. Last night, they got their answer. After having requested time to explore options for reducing crime that wouldn’t require bringing on additional staff, Jordan told the council Monday that after [...]
Tweet Members of the Prairie Village City Council last night seemed to have one overriding question for developers who submitted plans last week for a new CVS building at Corinth Square: Seriously? Responding to calls from city staff for council input prior to Wednesday’s neighborhood meeting on the proposal, council members lambasted the drawings submitted [...]
Tweet Members of the Prairie Village Sister City committee are encouraging local residents to consider applying to host a Ukrainian exchange student. Vira comes from a town not far from Dolyna, one of Prairie Village’s sister cities, and has been accepted into an international exchange program. Vira hopes to come to the U.S. sometime in [...]
Tweet The discovery of a major failure in the heating and air conditioning systems at John Diemer Elementary has prompted the Shawnee Mission School District to call a meeting tonight to examine where to house Diemer students next year. A notice on the district’s Web site says administrators are considering permanently moving Diemer students to [...]
Tweet When Kimberly Genseal, 20, heard the announcer at Sunday’s BRGR Run 4 Jazz 5K call “Go,” she knew she had support around the globe. The Warrensburg, Mo., resident had spoken with her father, who is stationed with the Air Force in Iraq, via Skype the night before. When she told him about her last [...]
Tweet We’ve got a couple of very exciting (at least to us) pieces of news to pass along. First: We’re proud to announce that we’ve signed on to an innovative collaboration arranged by The World Company (publishers of the Lawrence Journal-World, among other fine newspapers). In a nutshell, PVPost.com and three other hyperlocal, independent news [...]
Tweet The decision of Indian Hills seventh grader Desiree Pugh’s mother Janice Lewis to pull her daughter out of school after being subjected to prolonged cyberbullying has gotten the attention of local television stations. Both KCTV 5 and NBC Action News ran pieces this week on the situation. Lewis said her daughter’s grades and self [...]
Tweet If you’ve noticed a sudden rash of Fred Sanford wanna-bes trolling around your neighborhood, it’s likely because Prairie Village’s annual large item pick up starts tomorrow. Deffenbaugh will be making rounds of Prairie Village houses on 75th Street and north tomorrow, May 14. They’ll pick up large items from residents who live south of [...]
Tweet So, it wasn’t officially the third Thursday of the month. But the merchants along Tomahawk Road at the Village Shops kicked off their monthly spring and summer event series last night anyway (they chose the second Thursday of the month so as not to create a conflict with the SM East graduation next week). [...]
Tweet Former Michael Smith and 40 Sardines chef Carl Thorne-Thomsen’s new restaurant Story is set to open in the Village Shops before the end of the month. And before it does, local food writers are making sure it’s getting plenty of attention. Late last week, The PItch’s Jonathan Bender wrote a three part series on [...]
Tweet Tomahawk Road will once again be the site of pre-weekend merriment tonight as Village Shops merchants host their first 3rd Thursdays event of the season. Merchants along Tomahawk will be holding open houses for patrons, with food and demonstrations. Euston’s Hardware, for example, will be demoing Weber grills, and Rimann Liquors will have beer [...]
Tweet Police Chief Mike Fleming sent a crime prevention notice to Fairway residents yesterday encouraging them to write down the serial numbers of flat screen televisions, laptop computers, and other items potentially attractive to burglars. The notice came in response to the wave of burglaries that have plagued northeast Johnson County over the past several [...]
Tweet City staff and members of the planning commission will be seeking input on the proposal to build a new drive-through CVS on the corner of Somerset Drive and Mission Road in Corinth Square.
Tweet Cedarwood Development Services, the company that handles development for CVS pharmacies nationwide, has submitted a proposal for a new one-story pharmacy with a drive-through on the site of the vacated Tippin’s restaurant in Corinth Square. The building proposal calls for the demolition of the Tippin’s building as well as changes to the driveway entrances [...]
