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Archives for July, 2011
Tweet Though we’ve dedicated ourselves to generally providing only local coverage, from time to time as big national issues present themselves, we may run a poll or put together a video exploring local residents’ views on national topics. We’ll file these under the category “Pulse of Prairie Village.” So after this week’s dramatics in the [...]
Tweet A ruptured water main forced utility crews to block off State Line Road from 63rd Terrace to 65th Street Friday during rush hour Friday. The rupture, which occurred on the Missouri side of the state line, caused the asphalt to bulge and buckle, and had hundreds of gallons of water running along the road.
Tweet The Kansas Green Schools Program recently awarded Prairie Elementary with a Koch Green Schools Grant. Prairie will use the $2,500 grant to create a student run garden market. They will also install an irrigation system and plant buffalo grass and perennials as a means conserve water that will be used in the garden. Prairie [...]
Tweet Summer is usually my favorite season, but I’m ready for it to be over. I don’t know about the rest of you, but this heat is killing my desire to cook, exercise, go anywhere or do anything. In fact, the only thing that sounds good most days is lying on the couch and eating [...]
Tweet The good news: the wave of burglaries that pestered the Prairie Village area appears to have tapered off. The bad: a new kind of crime may have taken its place. The Prairie Village Police Department is warning residents to be on guard against the theft of wheels off SUVs. Over the course of the [...]
Tweet It sounds like a plot cooked up by the writers at Friday Night Lights. But the on and off field drama the SM East Lancers football team faces with just over a month before the first game of the season is absolutely real. Coach Chip Sherman, the man who turned a floundering program around [...]
Tweet Well sir, it’s hard to believe that we’ve already got two months of “Where’s that at?” fun under our belts. Just think of the memories. But look at me jabbering away when we should be getting to this week’s puzzle. So, where’s this at?:
Tweet It’s the dead of summer, and that usually means things heat up at city hall as local city councils work to put together a balanced budget to submit to the county. Both the Prairie Village and Fairway councils have been debating their budgets for the past couple months. Now, draft budgets have been published, [...]
Tweet Looks like another Prairie Village-area pup has gone wayward. Signs throughout our neighborhood call for help finding Sofie, a brownish-red and white Shiba Inu. If you see the little lady out and about, call Sabrina at 913-967-9688. Hopefully this will have a happy ending, just like the search for Peaches did about a year [...]
Tweet Having received approval from the Prairie Village Planning Commission earlier this month, Indian Hills administrators are planning how and when a series of extensive building renovations will be carried out. A few of the smaller projects needed to accommodate Indian Hills’ larger student body after the closure of Mission Valley will be completed before [...]
Tweet SM East standout pitcher and current JCCC Cavalier Jeff Soptic has signed a professional baseball contract with the Chicago White Sox, according to Baseball America. Soptic, whose fastball has been clocked at over 100 mph, had a scholarship to play at the University of Missouri the next two years, but will forgo the opportunity [...]
Tweet You probably don’t need any reminding that it’s nice to be able to head to the pool when the weather’s been like it has. And four Prairie Village families have that option as a result of the funds raised by the Prairie Village Municipal Foundation’sgingerbread house decorating parties last holiday season. Mely Ballard of [...]
Tweet No, that’s not another pool they’re drilling on Prairie Village city grounds. Work has begun along Mission Road on a new geothermal heating and cooling system that will serve City Hall. The system functions by using water in wells drilled deep below the surface to conduct warm and cold air that is circulated through [...]
Tweet A month ago, 2011 SM East graduate Natalie Bender’s family was preparing for a huge life change: sending their daughter off to college. Today, college has been postponed as they face an entirely different life changing set of circumstances: supporting Natalie as she battles brain cancer. Bender went to the Lake of the Ozarks [...]
Tweet A reader wrote us over the weekend inquiring about the overflowing Ripple Glass bin at the Village Shops, which got us thinking: What is the proper etiquette when you’ve got glass to drop off, but the bin is full? Ripple Executive Director Stacia Stelk tells us the company hopes people confronted with that situation [...]
Tweet Speaking of the pool, having passed the midpoint of this year’s pool season, Prairie Village has cut the price of its pool memberships. The prices are now as follows: RESIDENTS Individual – $36 Two person family -$70 Household – $75 Senior – $27.50 NONRESIDENTS Individual – $75 Child – $50 Household – $125 Senior [...]
Tweet The magic of Walt Disney came to the Prairie Village pool Sunday with the 52nd Water Show, an annual synchronized swimming display. As is tradition, the lifeguards kicked things off with their own synchronized swimming routine. This year, they kicked and thrashed to Katy Perry’s “Firework,” complete with sparklers: The team then marched around [...]
Tweet The li’l lady has been out of town this week, which means: 1.) I’ve been fending for myself on the food front; and 2.) No new recipe this week. It’s tough for everybody. But in the interest of keeping our culinarily minded readers sated, I figured I’d throw out the following topic: When do [...]
Tweet We’re a little late to the game on this one, but figured it was notable enough to pass along. You see, there was a race last month. A race called the Western States 100. It starts in Squaw Valley, Cal., and over the course of 100 miles, you climb 18,090 feet and descend 22,970. [...]
Tweet An ongoing debate about whether to finance improvements to Prairie Village’s parks in the 2012 budget prompted a pointed email Wednesday from former Councilman Wayne Vennard, who categorized Councilwoman and Parks Committee Chair Diana Ewy Sharp’s support for parks as excessive amid a grim economic environment. Over the course of the past month, the [...]
Tweet Ah, yeah! It’s that time again. We have the feeling a couple of relatively frequent commenters might figure this one out pretty quickly…but hopefully it will take a little longer than last week’s lightning round. So, where’s this at?:
Tweet You hear a lot about how good the turkey hunting is in Kansas. You just don’t tend to hear about it in Prairie Village. Reader Emily Liggett was driving down Delmar Street toward 62nd Terrace yesterday when she spotted a large bird perched on a fence. She snapped a couple of photos and sent [...]
Tweet The city of Fairway has hired a contractor to design a replacement for the pool’s aging filtration system and future pool complex improvements. To help gauge community interest in several possible new pool features, the city is asking residents to take an online survey. The survey asks participants to rate their support for ideas [...]
Tweet Reader Steve Revare sent in a few more photos of firefighters battling the blaze in the 8700 block of Catalina Monday:
Tweet The Prairie Village City Council appears to be backing away from the idea of putting a moratorium on zoning petitions for the Mission Valley property after having a continued open dialogue with RED Development, which has a contract in place to purchase the property. RED Development Managing Partner Dan Lowe addressed the council Monday [...]
