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Archives for September, 2011
Tweet If you happen to notice a cadre of slow pedaling cyclists struggling along the roads in Prairie Village and Fairway on Saturday, their chamois and jerseys stained with maroon, don’t freak out. There hasn’t been a massive cycling disaster or anything. These are just the brave soldiers participating in this year’s Tour de BBQ, [...]
Tweet I’ve been wanting to make this banana bread for months now. It’s one of my favorite snack foods on the planet, and it’s great for breakfast, dessert, or slipped into a lunch sack. But it’s hard at our house to get my mitts on ripe bananas. My daughter eats two a day, and my [...]
Tweet Prairie Village and Fairway are among the Johnson County municipalities that will see significant benefit from the County Assistance Road System (CARS) Project in 2012. Plans unanimously approved Thursday by the county’s Board of Commissioners authorized $506,000 be awarded to Prairie Village for a road improvement project on Somerset Drive from Roe Avenue to [...]
Tweet Hard to believe it’s been 17 full weeks since all of our lives got a little brighter with the addition of this fantastic weekly feature, isn’t it? They grow up so fast. But enough reminiscing. Let’s get to the issue at hand. Where’s this at, Village people?
Tweet After a five month renovation, Pizza 51 is now open for business in Fairway at the corner of Mission Road and 60th Street. The opening completes a process that began back in April 2010, when owner Jason Pryor first approached the city of Fairway about the idea of opening a restaurant on the site [...]
Tweet With the Prairie Pride 5K in the rear view mirror, members of the Prairie PTA and Prairie Fund are looking ahead to their next big fundraising event: the Prairie Auction. The event will be held November 4 in the Crossroads district at the Centrics Project Space. The event will going to have an ’80s [...]
Tweet The new UMB building on the former Roney’s Service Station site is almost complete, and a UMB spokesperson says the bank should open for business next Monday, Oct. 3. What do you think of the new building — is it a good fit for the area?
Tweet SM East senior Grant Kendall was elected Homecoming King by the entire student body. Kendall and the Homecoming King’s court were announced during Saturday’s Homecoming Dance. Kendall is the photo editor of the Harbinger, plays on the golf team, and is involved in theatre. The Homecoming King’s court was: First attendant: Nathan Are. Chamber [...]
Tweet SM East’s soccer teams won’t be able to use the fields at Mission Valley for much longer. But they also won’t have to travel far out of the way to practice once the new fields being constructed at Indian Hills are completed. The Shawnee Mission School Board approved a construction contract for the new [...]
Tweet Moody’s Investor Services has reaccredited the city of Prairie Village with a Aaa bond rating, the highest issued by the company. Members of the city’s administration team had expressed concerns that the continuing struggle over the country’s debt could have an impact at the local level, leading Moody’s to downgrade the city’s status. “The [...]
Tweet In those days Shaffer Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of all the four legged beasts with tails that wag and throats that purr. So Prairie Village census enumerators went house-to-house all across the land, knocking on people’s doors and asking them if they had any dogs or cats. Which [...]
Tweet John Phillip Sousa is a pretty obvious choice for a military band. But Fiona Apple? Music lovers were in for a treat Monday night at Colonial Church in Prairie Village, as the United States Air Force’s Brass in Blue brass ensemble played more than a dozen classic and modern arrangements. They played Amazing Grace. [...]
Tweet So, we’ve been to a few block parties by this point. We’ve seen the good. And we’ve seen the awesome. But I’m not sure we’ve seen a program as solid from top to bottom as Indian Fields’ shindig Sunday evening. For starters, there was live music. Like, good live music, from the Ernest James [...]
Tweet SM East parent and accomplished actor Kip Niven‘s Equity Actor’s Readers’ Theatre’s second series kicks off tonight with a reading of Kaufman and Hart’s Once in a Lifetime. The theatre’s first series included five plays, and EARTh has five more scheduled to run through April 2012. Additional readings will include George Bernard Shaw’s Misalliance [...]
Tweet The queen is dead. Long live the queen. I mean, metaphorically speaking. Although, I guess even metaphorically speaking, that’s not exactly accurate. It was more like an orderly, predetermined transition. So like Conan O’Brien taking over for Jay Leno. Though come to think of it, that doesn’t really work either… Let’s just scratch the [...]
Tweet It was Lancer quarterback Nick Pirotte’s arm that put SM East on the verge of an I-can’t-believe-what-I-just-saw comeback in Saturday’s Homecoming matchup against Olathe South. And it was Pirotte’s arm that ended the drive as the Lancers sat just yards from the endzone. Facing an eight-point deficit with less than two minutes remaining, and [...]
Tweet It was a veritable teeming den of Prairie Panthers at the start of Saturday’s inaugural Prairie Pride 5K, one of three fundraising events the Prairie PTA will be putting on this year. Things got off to a fast start with a number of the shorter-legged Panthers dashing across the start line for the 1 [...]
Tweet SM East football coach Chip Sherman knows his Lancers are a bit dinged-up heading into today’s Homecoming match-up. And he knows that Olathe South, which ended East’s record-breaking season last year with a 28-24 victory in the Regional round of the playoffs, is as formidable an opponent as ever. But ask him how he [...]
Tweet We’ve got what looks to be a beautiful weekend lined up for a calendar chock-full of fun events: Friday, Sept. 23: YMCA members can head over to the annual fall BBQ potluck at the Harmon Park Pavilion from 5-7 p.m. Lancer Football 5th Quarter and Bonfire: Get pepped for Saturday’s Homecoming game against Olathe [...]
Tweet We had a potluck dinner party on Sunday night. Good news was shared, babies performed to the height of cuteness, and a lot of nummy food was noshed. The many delights we indulged in included: marinated chicken that was grilled and then baked; a healthy and delicious bean and corn salad; and a labor-intensive [...]
Tweet So, we’re not generally in the business of promoting marketing gimmicks from giant multinational corporations. But darned if Coca-Cola’s (NYSE: KO) new fountain drink machine at Mr. Goodcents in the Village Shops didn’t proved irresistible. Here’s the gist: It’s called “Coca Cola Freestyle.” It looks like some weird Star-Trek-replicator-esque deal. It dispenses more than [...]
Tweet Ah, capricious youth. A local teen’s decision to dispatch of a pile of papers 1.) using fire, and 2.) in an abandoned store, caused a bit of a scene at the Ranchmart Shops Wednesday. Shoppers at Price Chopper alerted Leawood police Wednesday evening that there appeared to be a fire in progress inside the [...]
Tweet Prairie Village is going to get a little brighter. As part of the next phase of KCP&L’s LED Streetlight Pilot project, around 250 additional LED Streetlights will be installed throughout the city over the next six months. The installations will be done at no cost to the city. Prairie Village is one of the [...]
Tweet Friends. It’s time for your weekly pat on the back. Because if it’s 10 a.m. on Thursday, you’d better believe it’s Where’s that at? time! Let’s just see how we do…with this!:
Tweet Students from St. Ann Catholic School recognized yesterday’s International Day of Peace by filling the yard outside their school with more than 450 personally crafted pinwheels. The event was the idea of school Prinicipal Becky Akright, who wanted to encourage students to think about what peace means to them. The kids wrote messages and [...]
