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Archives for November, 2011
Tweet November, I can reliably report, is very near its end. And with it will go Prairie Village Mayor Ron Shaffer’s Ripple bin recycling challenge. So if you’ve got an unsettling amount of empty wine bottles sitting around from your Thanksgiving gathering, try to round them up and deposit them in one of the city’s [...]
Tweet KMBC reported earlier this week that a local church’s trailer filled with equipment for a special Christmas service was stolen over the Thanksgiving holiday. Mercy Church, which used to meet at Indian Hills Middle School and has recently moved to the Congregation Kol Ami temple, had the trailer parked in the Kol Ami lot [...]
Tweet In the down economic environment, many people would view construction of new houses in the area as a good thing. But a teardown-rebuild project on 72nd Terrace in Prairie Village has some of its neighbors grumbling. The new house going up between Roe Avenue and Tomahawk Road is considerably taller than those on the [...]
Tweet SM East senior Emma Sullivan may have picked up thousands of supporters on the Internet — but her role in the past week’s controversy appears to be making life less than comfortable close to home. The national political news website Politico reported that Sullivan stayed home from school Monday on account of bullying via [...]
Tweet Lest you’d forgotten how much fun it was watching the Lancers play this year, Gridiron Club dad Brian Libeer has put together a wrap-up video with highlights of the 2011 season. Looking forward to next year!
Tweet Now that the dust has settled around the Emma Sullivan/Sam Brownback/Karl Krawitz Twitter fracas, we’re wondering how you view the chain of events. In your opinion, who was most culpable for the incident: (By the way, if you missed Sullivan’s appearance on CNN yesterday, here’s the video:) At last check, Sullivan had picked [...]
Tweet Mareike Brauer of Germany and Lola Chavee of Belgium thought they had a pretty good idea of what life in the United States would be like before they came here as foreign exchange students — and they haven’t been disappointed. After all, they’d both seen High School Muscial in their home countries (Brauer saw it [...]
Parent requests district produce records between administrators and Krawitz regarding Sullivan tweet
Tweet Statements from Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback and the Shawnee Mission School District Monday certainly doused the flames of controversy that erupted over SM East senior Emma Sullivan’s unflattering tweet about the governor. But now one district mother is leading an expedition to sift through the ashes. Kathy Cook, executive director of Kansas Families for [...]
Tweet Six days, hundreds of news articles and several thousand provocative tweets later, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback ended up being the one to issue the apology in the Emma Sullivan Twitter fracas. Brownback issued a statement to the media saying he was sorry for his staff’s “over-reaction” to Sullivan’s message: My staff over-reacted to this [...]
Tweet The Shawnee Mission School District issued the following statement Monday morning regarding SM East senior Emma Sullivan’s controversial anti-Brownback tweet. The statement says the district does not intend to pursue the matter and notes that Sullivan is “not required to write a letter of apology to the Governor”: SHAWNEE MISSION – District officials have [...]
Tweet Those of you used to getting a dose of anti-war protest on your way in and out of Prairie Village along Roe Avenue may have noticed a recent deficit of dissent. John Quinly, the man who sued the city in 2006 because he was cited for exceeding the size limits placed on signs, has [...]
Tweet Emma Sullivan says she won’t be attending Monday’s Shawnee Mission School District Board of Education meeting (she has to work), but has heard from several of her supporters that they plan on addressing the controversy surrounding her anti-Brownback tweet. Indeed, several people who’ve weighed in on the conversation surrounding the issue have lobbied for [...]
Tweet Have we mentioned lately that SM East’s journalism program is pretty special? Two weekends ago, the Harbinger, Harbinger Online and Hauberk picked up four Best in Show placings at the National Scholastic Press Association/Journalism Education Association’s Fall National High School Journalism Convention. Several students won awards recognizing their individual work, as well. They were: [...]
Tweet SM East senior Emma Sullivan expects she’ll get called back to principal Karl Krawitz’s office Monday. And when she does, she’s prepared to let Krawitz know she’s decided to take a stand: She won’t be writing a letter of apology to Gov. Sam Brownback’s office. The decision comes after a whirlwind holiday weekend over [...]
Tweet We try to keep editorializing to a minimum around here… but as the holiday shopping season gets under way, we can’t resist the urge to lobby for one of our most deeply held beliefs: the importance of shopping locally. Providing the means for local businesses to connect with area residents was one of the [...]
Tweet Unfortunately, some technical difficulties prevented us from posting information yesterday about the opening night of Prairie Village’s most trafficked holiday lights displays. But better a day late than never, we suppose. Tim Dorr’s popular choreographed lights and music display has moved from his Fontana Street home to the grounds of the Prairie Village pool. [...]
Tweet If you start seeing “#heblowsalot” on bumper stickers in the next few months, you’ll have SM East senior Emma Sullivan to thank. Sullivan is no fan of Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback. And her decision to tweet as much while attending a Youth in Government seminar in Topeka Monday landed her in trouble with Principal [...]
Tweet What with it being Thanksgiving and all, we thought we’d spend a little more time on a story we told you about last week. The “A Brush with Kindness” program made possible through a joint collaboration between the Prairie Village Municipal Foundation and Heartland Habitat for Humanity has already had a huge impact for [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village city council on Monday voted 8-2 to explicitly name the renovation of the Johnny’s Tavern building and the Arby’s parking lot as reimbursable projects under the Corinth Square CID. Council members Michael Kelly and David Morrison, who voted against the CID last fall, voted against the measure. During the extensive debate [...]
Tweet Johnson County wastewater and environmental officials are trying to get to the bottom of what caused mounds of foamy suds to pile up along Brush Creek Tuesday morning after the night’s rains. The stretch of the creek that flows east of Kansas City Country Club, in particular, saw noticeable accumulation in the morning, though [...]
Tweet If you were hoping Mike Babick and his Falmouth Street neighbors would be coming together in the spirit of the season and singing carols to one another in the weeks leading up to Christmas, we’ve got some disappointing news. The city of Prairie Village has received formal complaints from Falmouth Street residents regarding a [...]
Tweet The city of Prairie Village has unveiled a mobile app for Android phone users intended to make it easier to communicate with city officials. The app allows residents to report problems like potholes, vandalism, missed trash pickup, or other issues. Users can send audio and photos to the city, as well as text messages. [...]
Tweet Mayor Ron Shaffer arrived late at Monday’s council meeting and consequently missed some of the lively debate about whether or not to put a sales tax increase to fund parks in front of Prairie Village voters — but it was because he was witnessing some lively debate at the county charter commission meeting. Shaffer [...]
Tweet On a narrow vote after a sometimes contentious debate Monday, the Prairie Village city council took the first step toward asking residents whether they’d support a sales tax increase to fund the city’s parks master plan. Citing a desire to find a permanent revenue source to fund parks improvements, the city’s finance committee put [...]
Tweet Prairie Village’s restaurant boom continues. LANE4 Property Group announced Monday that SPIN! Neapolitan Pizza will be opening a new restaurant at Corinth Square in late 2012 or early 2013. The new restaurant will occupy 3,500 square feet — or just over a third — of the space currently occupied by CVS Pharmacy. “Our tenants [...]
