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Archives for June, 2011
Tweet Last year’s budget struggles at Fairway, Roeland Park and Westwood city halls have taken this year’s Fourth of July fireworks display as a casualty. Traditionally, the three cities each chipped in $2,000 (with another $1,000 coming from either Westwood Hills or Mission Woods) for a fireworks display in north Johnson County. But major financial [...]
Tweet Alright, Villagers: it’s time to take off the training wheels. After a couple weeks of warm up, we’re going to turn the fabulous and instantly popular new “Where’s that at?” series up to 11. So: the first person to correctly identify the location of today’s photo in the comments section will get a $25 [...]
Tweet A year after propeller wash from a landing Chinook helicopter lifted a boy off his feet and caused him injuries requiring hospitalization, the city of Prairie Village has yet to receive any legal action from the boy’s family. “So far, we haven’t gotten anything,” said City Administrator Quinn Bennion. “But when an incident involves [...]
Tweet Meadowbrook Country Club’s annual fireworks display will be back in some form this year, but don’t count on being able to take much of it in unless you’re a member. The club skipped its traditional semi-public display last year as it faced seemingly insurmountable financial issues. But after cutting a deal with real estate [...]
Tweet The Kansas City Star reports that Stephen A. Reed will stand trial as an adult on charges of murdering 16-year-old Roeland Park skater Ryder Spillman in April. Spillman was found shot through the chest outside T.A. Edison Elementary School in Kansas City, Kan., the day after an altercation between two groups of local skateboarders. [...]
Tweet Six years after Fairway teen Jake Clough lost his life following a bicycle accident, the foundation started by his family in his honor has provided more than 6,800 bicycle helmets to local kids. And that number will likely go over 7,000 at next week’s VillageFest Fourth of July celebration. Headstrong for Jake will be [...]
Tweet The Shawnee Mission Board of Education at its meeting Monday night accepted a $4.35 million offer for Mission Valley Middle School from an investment group led by RED Development . The board, which approved the sale offer unanimously, received two formal offers for the property prior to last week’s deadline: $2.4 million offer from [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village City Council appears to be inclined to grant Police Chief Wes Jordan’s request to hire two new police officers, but are still grappling with how to pay for the additional staff. In making his recommendation to the council last month, Jordan estimated that the cost of bringing the new officers on [...]
Tweet The Shawnee Mission Board of Education is expected to take up the issue of selling Mission Valley Middle School at its meeting tonight. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the McEachen Administrative Center, 7235 Antioch Road. At its last meeting, the board directed legal staff to compile a document comparing the [...]
Tweet Four local schools are receiving significant facility additions or improvements over the summer break. They are: Belinder, which is receiving a four-classroom kindergarten and elevator addition. Crews are also upgrading the kitchen and expanding the multi-purpose room. The project will add approximately 10,000 square feet to the building. The project cost is $1.8 million. [...]
Tweet Prairie Village resident Barb Miksch is spearheading the local effort to raise funds for Plant it Pink, the fundraiser for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. For $20, Plant It Pink donors get a one-year membership in ACS CAN plus 10 Darwin hybrid pink tulips imported from Holland. The bulbs will be available [...]
Tweet Just a reminder that the annual Sidewalk Sale at Corinth Square and the Village Shops wraps up today. Merchants often reduce their prices even further at the end of the sale, so stop by and you might find a real bargain.
Tweet Construction crews are in the process of doing away with the last of a series of decorative crosswalks along Mission Road that became a persistent source of headaches for the city of Prairie Village after they were first installed in 2004. The city put in the decorative brick crosswalks at four intersections along Mission [...]
Tweet Love Prairie Village? Love the Fourth of July? Love mingling with your neighbors? Then the city’s VillageFest committee has an opportunity too good to pass up. Prairie Village is still seeking volunteers to help coordinate the mass community merriment at VillageFest, the city’s annual July 4 celebration. This year’s iteration of the event will [...]
Tweet Our refrigerator is often pathetically empty, but there are certain staples that we’ve got on a constant rotation. Whole milk, for the baby. Tortillas, to fill my husband’s near-nightly quesadilla craving. Yogurt and orange juice, for our morning smoothies. And hummus for pretty much everything else. We use it on sandwiches, we eat it [...]
Tweet District patrons hoping to get a better sense of what to expect as the Shawnee Mission Board of Education prepares to sell Mission Valley Middle School may have to wait until the day a decision is made about the property to find out what offers are on the table. Citing concerns about real estate [...]
Tweet An acquaintance of one of the SM East students charged in connection with the April murder of a Roeland Park teen said Shane Reed, 17, asked him a day before the incident to help kill some of the members of a group of skateboarders that had called him names. According to the Kansas City [...]
Tweet Alright, Villagers. Where’s that at? is back for a second week. And this time we’ve taken off the training wheels, upped the ante, and … any number of other cliched metaphors. So, without much further ado, where’s this at?: We think this one is relatively solvable, so we’ll wait until a really hard one [...]
Tweet The annual Sidewalk Sale at the Village Shops and Corinth Square starts a three day run today. Merchants at both shopping centers will be displaying discounted goods on the sidewalks outside their stores. The sales run through Saturday (but plan on swinging by today if you want a crack at the really good stuff…) [...]
Tweet If the past month’s worth of blistering heat wasn’t signal enough for you, the calendar made it official yesterday: summer is here. So, dear readers, how are you spending these longest days of the year?
Tweet SM East is the top public high school in Kansas and one of the top 500 in the nation, according to the latest set of rankings from Newsweek magazine. The Newsweek list, which has been released every year for more than a decade, used a revamped methodology this year. Each school’s score was based [...]
Tweet Prairie Village planners hope pedestrians will have a safer path to cross Somerset Drive on their way to the Corinth Shops in the coming weeks after a major set of street revisions are completed. The revisions include taking the street down from four lanes to three between 83rd Street and Mission Road, and adding [...]
Tweet The United States Postal Service has informed Mayor Ron Shaffer that it will close the Prairie Village Post Office branch in the near future — but at least one council member says he’ll believe it when he sees it. Shaffer received a letter from the Postal Service last week in which a representative of [...]
Tweet Reader Joe Houston sent us a photo and a question after finding a fresh new Yellow Pages book on his doorstep Saturday morning: Don’t you think its time to request Yellow Pages rather than just have them delivered? Even my parents at 77 years old “Google” what they want to find. They are a [...]
Tweet Let there be water. Prairie Village Public Works Director Bruce McNabb reported to the City Council Monday that a series of fixes to the faulty filtering system on Franklin Park’s new play stream appear to have the feature back up in working order. Public Works staff had been wrestling with how to keep the [...]
