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Archives for October, 2011
Tweet You know what was awesome? Watching the Lancers trounce the Raiders on Friday. You know what’s almost as awesome? Reliving it through Lancer dad Brian Libeer’s latest recap video (this week’s theme: boxing!) I’m especially fond of the scene at the 3:00 mark where Connor Rellihan leaps into Dylan Brett’s arms and they start [...]
Tweet Nearly 400 kids and parents came out for the seventh annual Trail of Tricks and Treats Halloween celebration at Fairway’s Peterson Park Sunday night. Costumed kids got to decorate pumpkins, play games, and enjoy food and drinks. As you might imagine, there were some pretty creative costumes. Among them, this Missouri River noodler: And [...]
Tweet (*Whistling) Doo do doo, do doo dobee do dooo… AHHHH! Oh, dear Lord, you scared me! I didn’t see you come in. I guess I’m just a little skittish this morning, what with it being Halloween and all. It’s so spooky out lately. I guess part of it is that we spent a couple [...]
Tweet Hillcrest Covenant Church got Halloween celebrations off to an early start with a pumpkin carving party at Franklin Park —- a party whose centerpiece activity was made markedly difficult by the fact that the shelter lights didn’t come on after dusk, forcing parents to use their cell phones as flashlights: For other area Halloween [...]
Tweet With their season on the line, the Lancers put together one of their most complete games of 2011, dispatching SM South 27-0 and earning a slot in the first round of the playoffs. The Lancers will take on 5-4 SM Northwest, who they defeated in the season opener, next Friday. Dakota Collins, who threw [...]
Tweet When a group of some of the nation’s most powerful administrators gathered at the White House Thursday to discuss the impact of federal policies at the local level, Prairie Village had a seat at the table. Prairie Village city councilwoman Ruth Hopkins attended a full day White House briefing convened by the White House [...]
Tweet We’re hosting a baby shower this weekend for our good friends and the theme is — you guessed it — Little Pumpkins. The mother-to-be loves Halloween, so the timing couldn’t be better. I’m serving some of the usual suspects: pumpkin bars, pumpkin beer, candy corn. But I was struggling with a main dish. Then [...]
Tweet 2012 will mark Belinder Elementary’s 60th anniversary, and the school’s Diamond Jubilee committee is looking for stories, memories, photos and other mementos for a celebratory video. The memorabilia can be place on loan to the Belinder PTA, which is organizing the Diamond Jubilee Gala, to be held Feb. 3, 2012. The items will be [...]
Tweet So I pulled into the driveway yesterday after stopping to pick up some bitter apple spray, only to find that I was moments too late to save one of the poor pumpkins on our porch steps: “Stupid squirrel!” I yelled helplessly as the squirrel shoved meaty seed after meaty seed into its greedy maw. [...]
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Tweet City, business and government officials gathered Saturday to mark the official opening of the new UMB location at 6900 Mission Road. The new building sits on the site of the former Roney’s Service Station, which operated for nearly six decades. The Roney family retains ownership of the land, and is leasing it to UMB. [...]
Tweet If there’s a silver lining in the Lancers’ loss to SM West in district play last week, it’s that Friday’s regular season ending matchup against SM South has taken on a new layer of interest. “The playoffs have come for us, they’re just starting a week early,” said SM East head coach Chip Sherman. [...]
Tweet The city of Fairway is again offering citizens the option of curbside leaf removal. The leaf removal program, which the city started in 2009, lets homeowners rake their leaves to the edge of their yards, where crews from Benjamin Lawn & Landscape service remove them with large vacuum trucks. The cost is $31 for the [...]
Tweet I am red with envy, if that’s possible, about PV resident Doug Hudson’s mad photography skills. Doug sent the beautiful shot above along yesterday after our call for fall foliage pictures, and when we asked him where it was shot (around 78th and Nall Avenue, he thinks) he let us know he’s been keeping [...]
Tweet A letter from Prairie Village about an insurance program for sewer lines has a number of residents wondering about the financial arrangement between the city and the company offering the insurance policy. The letter, signed by Mayor Ron Shaffer, encourages residents to consider enrolling in a policy that protects homeowners against “unexpected and costly [...]
Tweet The Village and Corinth Square Merchants Associations are looking for feedback from local residents about their shopping centers — why people shop, what they like, what they don’t like, and how they get information about what’s going on at the centers. They’ve posted an electronic survey, which, when successfully completed, entitles the completor to [...]
Tweet We regret to report that in our wrap up of local restaurants that got a nice pat on the back in the Pitch’s annual Best of Kansas City issue, we neglected to recognize Stroud’s, which took home “Best Display of Kansas City Portions” honors. But the Pitch isn’t the only publication dishing out props [...]
Tweet Big thanks to reader Karen Chapman for sending along a few more pics of great fall color throughout the area. If you’ve got some especially beautiful fall foliage in your neighborhood, snap a shot and send it our way.
Tweet It’s one of the most gruesome spectacles we’ve ever seen. And we come home to it every night. At first it started with some light scratching. Could have been anything, really – a wayward falling branch, maybe. A friendly pawing from the dog. Then, the teeth marks appeared. Within days, the shell had been compromised, [...]
Tweet So, we lost. To SM West. With a top seed in the playoffs essentially on the line. Which is too bad. But from the looks of Lancer Gridiron Club dad Brian Libeer’s weekly recap video, you’ve got to feel like the boys in black are going to be walking tall as they head into [...]
Tweet By Sara Shepherd, Shawnee Dispatch A teen who fatally shot a Shawnee Mission North High School student in a schoolyard fight will face more than 13 years in prison, a judge ruled Friday. A jury convicted Stephen A. Reed, 17, in September of second-degree murder and of criminal possession of a firearm by a [...]
Tweet We spent an hour puttering around town Sunday snapping photos of fall foliage, and while it looks like we’re still a week or so away from peak colors, there are plenty of sights to be seen. (Please send us shots of great fall tree color in your neighborhood – we’ll run them on the [...]
Tweet The two men arrested after Friday’s robbery of the US Bank at the Village Shops were charged in Johnson County court this weekend, and are scheduled to make an appearance in court at 1:30 p.m. today. Dennis E. Bowen, 40, and Joshua J. Parker, 19, were booked by the Sheriff’s department Friday afternoon. Both [...]
Tweet Crews this week will begin trimming trees on the east side of Prairie Village, part of the city’s tree maintenance program. The crews will only trim those trees in the city’s right-of-way, and cannot trim trees on private property. They will: Remove dead wood on branches 2 inches in diameter or larger Remove broken [...]
Tweet Kevin Euston can still remember the 14 hour days stocking shelves in preparation for the opening of his family’s hardware store at the Village Shops. His brother Tom had a 1-month-old to take care of — but the schedule required to get the store ready for its grand opening didn’t allow the family to spend [...]
