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Archives for August, 2011
Tweet Given the tone taken by the University of Kansas’s top athletics department officials at Friday’s KU Kickoff in Prairie Village, you’d have thought the Jayhawks were preparing to defend a conference football championship — not rebound from a disappointing 3-9 season. But athletic director Sheahon Zenger, basketball coach Bill Self, and football coach Turner [...]
Tweet Mother Nature won’t let us catch a break. A second round of thunderstorms hit the Prairie Village area overnight, causing a fresh wave of power outages, putting additional strain on an already overbooked KCP&L repair crews. The utility company’s outage map on Saturday morning showed that nearly 2,000 customers were without power between the [...]
Tweet Utility and public works crews have a long day ahead of them. Power is still out throughout much of the Prairie Village area as KCP&L workers slog through a long outage list across the metro area. Prairie Village city administrator Quinn Bennion said public works crews from the city worked throughout the night to [...]
Tweet I apologize if I am overdoing it on recipes that involve fresh tomatoes. If you don’t like them, I promise I will move on soon. But this year we’ve decided to steer clear of tomatoes when they’re not in season, so I’d better get my fill now. This recipe involves some of my favorite [...]
Tweet The debate about how to address the kids-congregating-on-the-Plaza situation has been in full swing since last Saturday’s nearly tragic shootings. And while the vast majority of the conversation has centered around race and responsibility among Kansas City, Mo., parents, a comment on Yael Abouhalkah’s blog caught our eye. A commenter identifying herself as Ellen [...]
Tweet Missouri and K-State fans: Tonight’s going to be a long night. Because the concentration of Kansas fans per square foot is going to be astronomically high at Corinth Square. Indeed, it’s time for the annual KU Kickoff, an alumni association events that brings thousands of Jayhawks fans from around the metro area to the [...]
Tweet JoS. A. Bank, a national men’s dress clothing chain, has signed a long term lease for the Village Shops retail location most recently occupied by Curious Sofa. Curious Sofa closed its storefront operations in January and moved online only. LANE 4 vice president Jeff Berg said the property group, which owns the Village Shops [...]
Tweet Work is under way on renovations to Cambridge Street and Weltner Park in Prairie Village that should make both driving and recreating in the area more enjoyable. Street crews have dug up the existing road and are clearing the way for the street’s new path, which will eliminate the current “island” between Booth Drive [...]
Tweet We’re getting the feeling we didn’t provide a sufficiently difficult challenge the last couple weeks. We’re sorry for that, if nothing else, and we’re going to try to correct it today. So…where’s this at!?
Tweet School may have started at Prairie Elementary, but one third grade classroom there hasn’t seen any activity yet — because the district is still in the process of hiring its teacher. After seeing that final total enrollment for the two planned third grade sections at Prairie would be 28 and 29 students, respectively, the district [...]
Tweet A Village Shops eatery is making its presence felt throughout the area with a focus on a French favorite. C. Jacks Sidewalk Cafe has recently expanded into the grocery store market, selling its four varieties of quiches at Hy-Vees, Price Choppers and Hen Houses throughout the Johnson County area. “We had a couple customers [...]
Tweet Prairie Village police are hoping parents take the time to learn some new material this first week of school: how to drop off their children at Indian Hills and SM East. Because of the increased student population at Indian Hills on account of the merger with Mission Valley, police and the district devised a [...]
Tweet A Johnson County news institution with its roots in Prairie Village is shutting its doors. The Johnson County Sun laid off 20 editorial and sales employees Tuesday, and announced that the issue hitting stands later this week would be its last. The paper originally started as the Village Scout, a weekly introduced for the [...]
Tweet Shane Reed, the SM East student who aided in the murder of 16-year-old Ryder Spillman in April, will spend 18 months in a juvenile correction facility with 12 months of aftercare for his part in the crime. Shane had previously pleaded guilty to charges of aiding a felon and possession of a firearm by [...]
Tweet A recent message from AT&T intended to let local wireless customers know their service could be improving ended up sending a flood of confused calls to Prairie Village city hall. AT&T sent a text to Prairie Village area customers last Wednesday reading: “Good news! AT&T activated a new cell site at 67th and Roe! [...]
Tweet Visa troubles half a world away have forced a late lineup change for the second annual Prairie Village Jazz Festival. A five piece jazz ensemble from Prairie Village’s sister city Dolyna, Ukraine, had been scheduled to take the stage at the event September 10. But Ukrainian officials denied the band leader a visa, effectively [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village City Council on Monday agreed to terms with RED Development on a joint public planning process for the Mission Valley site, the first step in a month’s long journey intended to create a community-supported plan for the for former school site. The planning process is estimated to cost approximately $200,000, the [...]
Tweet The Prairie Elementary PTA has decided to take a new approach to fundraising this year, moving away from its traditional battery of sales and toward larger events intended to foster more community spirit. The group is kicking off the new strategy with a run, the Prairie Pride 5K and 1-mile Fun Run, to be [...]
Tweet Pembroke Hill grad and Mission Hills native Bobby Bollier is putting together quite a resume heading into next year’s Olympic swim trials. Coming off a surprise 200-meter butterfly victory at the U.S. Swim Championships in Palo Alto earlier this month, Bollier picked up a silver medal in the event at the World University Games [...]
Tweet It looks like the quarterback who propelled the Lancers to their best season ever last year is making quite an impression in his new home out west. John Schrock has apparently leap-frogged two scholarship players on the University of Colorado’s football team to secure the No. 3 quarterback spot. Schrock decided to walk on [...]
Tweet A reader wrote last week letting us know his mother’s purse had been stolen from her car in the Reinhardt neighborhood of Fairway, hoping to alert others so they could avoid a similar situation. Chief Mike Fleming of the Fairway Police Department said thefts from unlocked cars tend to be a seasonal problem, but [...]
Tweet Today we flipped the switch on a new Prairie Village area business directory featuring some of the great businesses that help keep the Prairie Village Post going. Take a look here, or click the Local Businesses tab in the top navigation bar. The directory has contact and services information for our sponsors, along with [...]
Tweet Our oven died this week. Not bad timing, huh? I can’t say I’ve turned it on more than a few times this summer, although I was hoping to use it to roast some brussels sprouts. They’re one of our greatest successes from the garden this year. Luckily, there’s no problem with the stove top, [...]
Tweet RED Development is finalizing the details of a planning process for development of the Mission Valley Middle School site, and aims to present its proposal to the Prairie Village city council on Monday. RED spokesman Dave Claflin said the group hoped to begin hosting a series of around six focus groups once the city [...]
Tweet School must be right around the corner indeed, for the local public pools will head toward reduced hours starting next week. As of Monday, August 15, the Fairway pool will be closed Monday through Thursday. Hours Friday are 4-8 p.m., and on Saturday, Sunday and Labor Day are 11 a.m.-8 p.m. The snack bar [...]
