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Archives for December, 2011
Tweet A little more than a year after it opened at 95th Street and Nall Avenue in Prairie Village, Le Peep restaurant will be closing its doors. Owner Al Hinman said he expects operations to have ceased by the first week of January. “It’s always a hard decision when you have to pull the trigger [...]
Tweet A group of hardy Villagers and other locals are heading out this evening for the second annual Prairie Village Christmas lights run. The group will meet at Johnny’s in Corinth Square around 6:15 p.m. and hit the streets at 6:30 p.m. They plan on knocking off around five miles at a conversational pace along [...]
Tweet This one is going to be difficult for me to type. Final numbers are in for the MARC/Ripple Glass November recycling challenge, and (deep sigh)… Sorry. I need a minute. Okay. Let me start over: Final numbers are in for the recycling challenge, and Prairie Village came in second place. Not first. First place [...]
Tweet Sales tax data released by the city of Prairie Village paints a mixed picture of what, if any, impact the 1 percent Community Improvement District taxes have had on the Village Shops and Corinth Square since they went into effect Jan. 1. Excluding the actual CID tax, the numbers show that sales through this [...]
Tweet No, you’re not falling into paranoid, hallucinatory delusions about covert government surveillance: there actually have been more helicopters darting around over Prairie Village lately. But the reason shouldn’t give anyone alarm. Prairie Village happens to be right in the flight path from the Johnson County Executive Airport in Olathe and the Country Club Plaza [...]
Tweet Just a few days after a water main broke in the 7400 block of Fontana Street, another is gushing water on 74th Street, just a few blocks away. WaterOne is sending crews out to the scene, and it’s unclear at this point whose water service is affected. Houses east of the break on the [...]
Tweet Prairie Village police said Monday night they haven’t made any arrests in Saturday’s armed robbery on 71st Terrace, but that the incident may be related to a very similar robbery that took place on 69th Street in the Brookside/Waldo area about 30 minutes earlier. Police Chief Wes Jordan told the Prairie Village City Council [...]
Tweet Corinth kids and families have a new source for information about what’s going on in their school community — and they can be sure that it comes from people with inside knowledge. The first issue of the school’s first ever student newspaper, The Corinth Times, will hit desks today. “Every bit of content is tied [...]
Tweet View Larger Map Prairie Village police are continuing to investigate the robbery of two women in a 71st Terrace driveway Saturday night. According to the report they filed with police, when they pulled into the driveway in the 2900 block of the street around 8:30 p.m., a man in a ski mask and dark [...]
Tweet I think it’s fair to say we’re officially on the map, Villagers. Santa Claus, the ancient bearer of Christmas gifts sometimes referred to as Old Saint Nick and Kris Kringle, made an unprecedented second public appearance in Prairie Village Saturday. And this is a busy man, okay? I saw him in an iPhone commercial [...]
Tweet Dalton Banks, the man who cut hundreds of area residents’ hair at Village Hairstyling over more than 20 years, died earlier this week at the age of 63. His former colleagues at the Village Shops barbershop got the news from his sister, who called after he passed away on Wednesday. Banks had stopped cutting [...]
Tweet A neighbor in the 7400 block of Fontana Street reports a water main break there, with all houses between 74th Street and 75th Street facing Fontana experiencing water outages. 74th Place and 74th Terrace not currently affected. We’ll update this post when we get new details. UPDATED 5:17: WaterOne says they are in the [...]
Tweet The Johnson County Department of Motor Vehicles has closed its office at 6000 Lamar Ave. in Mission for remodeling until Spring 2012. Which mean that if have to renew your registration or get a title, you’ll have to head out to the Olathe office at 782 N Ridgeview Road. It can be quite an [...]
Tweet I adore my mother-in-law. Marilyn Senter is smart, funny, beautiful and incredibly generous. I could go on and on about how much I love her, and about the amazing things she has done for us over the years (thanks again for watching our dog while we were in the Peace Corps!). But one of the [...]
Tweet The Shawnee Mission School Board on Monday passed a measure moving Brookwood Elementary families into voting area for the SM South representative on the school board — a move that’s upsetting to a number of Brookwood parents. At issue, they say, is the fact that approving the move now, as opposed to before April’s school [...]
Tweet Stand up effort on identifying last week’s puzzler so quickly. Speaking of standing up…let’s have a go again:
Tweet State Rep. Kay Wolf, the former Prairie Village city councilwoman who now represents much of the city in Topeka, says that by and large the Johnson County delegation in the state legislature is excited about Gov. Sam Brownback’s proposal for revamping the school finance formula. Wolf and other Johnson County legislators met with Brownback’s [...]
Tweet Fifteen Prairie Village police officers took some time yesterday to make the holidays a little happier for seven area kids. As part of the department’s inaugural “Shop With a Cop” program, the officers helped seven kids pick out presents for their families — and themselves — at the Target in Mission. The Prairie Village Municipal [...]
Tweet Shawnee Mission School District Superintendent Gene Johnson released a statement Wednesday suggesting he was highly encouraged by Gov. Sam Brownback’s proposal to revamp the state’s school funding formula, which has been the subject of near-constant litigation in recent years. The statement was as follows: We are pleased that the Governor’s plan appears to include [...]
Tweet The down economy appears to have taken its final toll on one of Prairie Village’s most-beloved stores. The Toon Shop has closed its doors just three months after moving to a smaller space at the Village Shops. At this point it is unclear what will happen to the Music Academy still located under the [...]
Tweet Gov. Sam Brownback’s office has presented its proposal for overhauling the state’s school finance formula, a set of steps that would take effect in July 2013 if approved by the state legislature. The highlights include: Lifting the cap on the amount of money school districts can raise through local property taxes. Removing the tie [...]
Tweet Prairie Village city councilman David Morrison told PVPost.com the day he and the city faced off in court in September that should the appellate court rule against him, he’d reimburse the city for all the legal fees it incurred defending Morrison’s challenge. The judge rendered a decision against Morrison last week. Prairie Village’s legal [...]
Tweet The Lancers’ football season may have ended on an unremarkable note, but the area’s other high school football team is enjoying a wave of post season accolades. Bishop Miege quarterback Montell Cozart, a junior, was named Gatorade Kansas High School Player of the Year after leading the Stags to a 9-2 record with 2,448 [...]
Tweet Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s office has announced that it will release details about its proposal for revamping the state’s controversial school funding formula. Policy director Landon Fulmer will present the governor’s proposal Wednesday at a meeting of the State Board of Education. Brownback hinted throughout his campaign for governor that he would be looking [...]
Tweet City and business leaders gathered last Thursday as Jos. A Bank, the men’s clothier that opened in the space formerly occupied by Curious Sofa, held a ribbon cutting at its Village Shops location. LANE 4 and the company announced in August that they had signed a long-term lease for the retail space, which has [...]
