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Archives for July, 2011
Tweet Frosty relations on Falmouth Street over Mike Babick’s annual Christmas display have surfaced in the dead of summer. Hoping to stem the controversy before this year’s Christmas season, the council had regulation of holiday displays on its Monday council agenda, and opened the floor to members of the audience for comment. Babick was the [...]
Tweet School resource officer Seth Meyer has developed a virtual tour of SM East that could provide Prairie Village police with vital navigational information in the case of an emergency. The virtual tour, which will be installed on every mobile police computer as well as those in the department’s command center, combines an overhead map [...]
Tweet A fire in the 8700 block of Catalina Street left the roof of a stately Prairie Village home sagging — but a homeowner present inside when the fire started was able to escape to safety. Consolidated Fire District No. 2 Chief Phil Hodgdon said the cause of the fire was still under investigation, but [...]
Tweet Newsflash: It’s hot outside. Really, really, super hot. Like, ridiculously so. So what are you doing to try to stay cool?
Tweet And, we’re off. The Second Annual Great Prairie Villagian Block Party Contest got off to a hot start Saturday as the neighborly neighbors of 72nd Terrace braved the oppressive weather in the name of good times: They definitely get bonus points for high turnout in the unreasonably high temperatures — and a couple of gold [...]
Tweet Readers of the New York Times got a glimpse at Prairie Village in Sunday’s fashion section. SM East graduate Hanne Duncan, née Gradinger, and beau Duncan’s 2010 wedding at Village Presbyterian Church was featured in a story on quirky wedding exits. The Duncans, who met at a bike race in the mid-2000s and took [...]
Tweet The National Weather Service has extended its heat advisory for the area until next Friday, July 22. Today’s predicted high temperature of 95 degrees is the lowest for the week, with heat index values expected to peak near 115 degree in the coming days. Even at night, the heat indices aren’t expected to fall [...]
Tweet This Story has officially started. (And don’t worry, I think I’m officially out of Story puns). Story proprietors Carl and Susan Thorne-Thomsen held a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday for the new Village Shops eatery, welcoming Prairie Village city officials and business leaders into their restaurant for a celebration — and a tasting. Guests noshed on [...]
Tweet We’ve been having fun checking out the progress in our vegetable garden (I’m hoping that this hot weather is at least good for something). We’re still waiting for the big day when we can eat that first tomato, but little by little we’ve harvested broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce and herbs. I’ve also had my eye [...]
Tweet Which one of these is the hot dog?!?!?!?!?!?!?: Hahahahahahahahahahaha! Ha! Oh, man. I’ve been working on that one all day. Anyway, it was, indeed, quite warm last night at the Village Shops’ Dog Days of Summer event. Lots of cute pups from the SPCA were hanging around outside Euston Hardware: And a number of [...]
Tweet It can’t but help to have home pool advantage. Indian Hills pulled an upset victory at the Country Club Swim Association of Kansas City’s championships yesterday, nudging off perennial favorite Leawood South 1308.5 to 1305.5. Kansas City Country Club came in third at 1010. Indian Hills’ Cailey Grunhard helped the team’s effort and secured [...]
Tweet Joe heads, your wait is over. The new Trader Joe’s at Ward Parkway is set to open at 8 a.m. today. A second Kansas City area store located at 119th and Roe will open as well. A not-insignificant number of the 8,207 members of a “Bring Trader Joe’s to the Kansas City Metro” Facebook [...]
Tweet After a brief hiatus, community camaraderie returns to Tomahawk Road tonight as the Village Merchants sponsor their annual “Dog Days of Summer” event. The fun kicks off at 6 p.m., when the stores along Tomahawk road will open up their doors and serve food and drinks. The Heartland SPCA will also be on hand [...]
Tweet Whelp. I certainly had never noticed the subject of this week’s “Where’s that at?” before I was driving around town a few days ago looking for things to take pictures of. Perhaps you, dear readers, are more observant than I. So, where’s this at?:
Tweet Last week, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback appointed local attorney Fred Logan and two others to the Kansas Board of Regents, the body charged with overseeing the state’s higher education system. Long a champion of public education in the state, Logan has been hailed as an excellent choice for the position by the Kansas City [...]
Tweet KCP&L’s power grid shows that as of 5:40 p.m., nearly 300 homes in the 66208 zip code and more than 450 homes in the 66205 zip code are still without power following last night’s storm. According to Prairie Village’s website, many of the outages are in small pockets, making it difficult for the utility [...]
Tweet Sunflower League Football blogger Eli Underwood has slotted the Lancers in toward the top of his Preseason Power Rankings. SM East is listed third out of the league’s 12 teams, behind Olathe East and Olathe North. Underwood singled out star receiver Elliot Faerber, who has committed to play college ball at the University of [...]
Tweet Anyone who witnessed the dark clouds roll in from the southwest Tuesday night will understand just how powerful electrical storms can be. But to remind local residents of as much, Prairie Village Public Works will be posting approximately 30 signs throughout city parks. The signs, which read, “When Thunder Roars, Go Indoors!” and encourage [...]
Tweet Many Prairie Village and Fairway residents will spend time this morning dealing with the aftermath of the powerful electrical storm that swept through the area Tuesday night. Heavy winds and rain felled large branches at residences around the Village Shops and elsewhere. KCP&L reports that 431 homes, 5 percent of their customers, are without [...]
Tweet It happens each year. And each year the wounds grow more visible still. A cohort of aquatically gifted adolescent assassins have descended upon our quiet suburban summer nights. They are stealthy. And they are ruthlessly efficient. Their tool is not gun, nor knife, nor ninja throwing star. It is toilet paper. And with it [...]
Tweet Fairway residents compelled to participate in the city’s 2012 budget process seemed to have one overarching message for Mayor Jerry Wiley and members of the City Council Monday night: You’re on the right track — but don’t lose sight of the big picture. An open forum on the budget at Fairway City Hall brought [...]
Tweet More than 1,600 swimmers from area country clubs will gather at Indian Hills Country Club in Mission Hills over next three days for the 54th Annual County Club Swim Association of Kansas City Swim Championships. The event marks the end of the clubs’ six-week summer swim season, and will feature competitors aged 6 through [...]
Tweet It’s official, north Leawood: you’re historic. A series of signs posted around the area last month mark two “Historic Districts” designated by the Leawood City Council. The first — Historic District I — was established by the city council around a dozen years ago in the neighborhoods along the far north end of the [...]
Tweet It’s city budget time again, and at least in Fairway, the 2011 process looks to be considerably smoother than 2010. Facing a gaping $500,000 budget shortfall last year, the city’s governing body ultimately voted to raise the city’s mill levy by just under 45 percent, but not before facing throngs of less-than-pleased citizens. But [...]
Tweet Tavern in the Village has landed a cherry spot in a national food showcase. The Village Shops restaurant was selected to represent Kansas on national Rainier Cherry Day (that’s today, July 11, if you didn’t have it on your calendar already). An organization representing cherry growers in Washington State selected one restaurant in each [...]
