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Archives for 2012
Tweet Happy New Year’s Eve, everyone. So, how will you be ringing in 2013?
Tweet And here, without much further ado, were the five most-read stories of 2012: No. 5: Hoo’s making that noise? Great horned owls nesting in area I’m guessing a fair number of our readers for this story came from outside Northeast Johnson County. But hoo’s to say? Hahahahahahaha! Ah… I already made that pun in [...]
Tweet With 365 days behind us in this leap year, we figured we (and you) have earned the right to do a little reflecting. So, without much further ado, here’s a rundown of the ten most-read stories on PVPost.com in 2012: No. 10: Falmouth house may be quiet, but Babick hard at work decorating for [...]
Tweet Looks like we’re in for a slippery New Year’s Eve, everyone. The Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for the Kansas City area starting at 6 a.m. Monday and running through 6 a.m. Tuesday. Snow is expected to begin early and continue through early Monday afternoon. Forecasters expect a break Monday afternoon [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff What will you be doing this New Year’s Eve? We’re slowly adjusting to life with children, so anything we do will have to be super kid-friendly. Right now it’s looking like an early dinner at Red Lobster (which will probably be insanely busy at 5 p.m. on New Year’s Eve) followed [...]
Tweet Since the Kansas Libertarian Party filed suit against Prairie Village and Leawood last week challenging their bans on openly carrying loaded weapons on public property, we’ve gotten a number of emails about what the suit means, and how the court case will move forward. We’ll try to answer the most common questions below: Why [...]
Tweet Owners of the Corinth Square building that until 2010 primarily housed a Bank of America branch say they intend to open a new community bank on the site in the first quarter of 2013. Casey McLiney, chairman of Marion National Bank, said a group of family-owned businesses have take up residence in the building’s [...]
Tweet Okay, gang. The holidays are over. So now it’s time to hunker down and get back to the serious business that is…”Where’s that at?”!:
Tweet 2010 SM East graduate Janna Graf attracted some nice national attention earlier this month for her play on the Yale University basketball team. Graf earned Ivy League Player of the Week honors the first week of December after two standout performances against Fordham and St. Francis Brooklyn. In those games she shot 10-for-19 from [...]
Tweet It’s about time to start thinking about not having to think about Christmas anymore, right? Well, if getting rid of that Christmas tree would help you put the holidays behind you, you’ve got a couple of options. Prairie Village and Mission Hills residents can simply set their Christmas trees on the curb to be [...]
Tweet A Prairie Village resident’s 40 year devotion to sculpture is on full display through the end of January. Mark McHenry is an architect by day, but since the early 1970s, he’s been crafting unique multimedia works out of wood, wire and metal. Six of those pieces are presently on display at the Late Show [...]
Tweet Committee assignments have been handed out to Republican state legislators for the 2013 session and it is a mixed bag for the three representatives from northeast Johnson County. Barbara Bollier, Melissa Rooker and Stephanie Clayton each received three committee assignments, in some cases just what they wanted and in other cases not so much. [...]
Tweet Fox 4 News reports that burglars stole the gifts from under a Prairie Village family’s Christmas tree Monday while they were at dinner. Ted and Kirby Leeper were at Ted’s parents’ house for about an hour and a half Christmas Eve. When they returned home, they found their door had been kicked in and [...]
Tweet From all of us here at Prairie Village Post World Headquarters, we’d like to wish a very Merry Christmas to you, our dear readers. Just a quick note to let you know we won’t be posting tomorrow, but we’ll be back Wednesday with fresh stories. Have a great holiday!
Tweet One SM East basketball player was on the receiving end of an early Christmas present last week. Metro Sports named senior Vance Wentz its Hy-Vee Player of the Week after his dominating performance against Columbia Rock Bridge. Wentz scored 23 points in the game at the Hy-Vee Shootout Dec. 15. Check out the video [...]
Tweet Prairie Village officials today announced they will “vigorously defend” the city’s right to ban openly carrying loaded firearms on public property. The press release from city hall follows: Prairie Village will defend prohibition of Open Carry on Public Property PRAIRIE VILLAGE, KS.—On December 21, 2012, the Libertarian Party of Kansas, Al Terwelp, Party Chairman, [...]
Tweet “What are these guys going to do without you?” On Friday, with just ten minutes left in her 30 year career at Euston Hardware, Beverly White’s customers were worrying about how her co-workers were going to cope. Starting as a part-time cashier in 1983, White eventually moved up to becoming store manager at the [...]
Tweet Mady and Me Children’s Boutique will close at the Village Shops Dec. 28, with owners moving operations to a new location and under a new name in 2013. The store will be open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Dec. 26-28, with all merchandise for sale at 50 percent off listed prices. The company was purchased by [...]
Tweet The news late Friday that the Kansas Libertarian Party was moving forward with a legal challenge to Prairie Village and Leawood’s ban on openly carrying weapons within their city limits made the renewed debate over gun control following the Sandy Hook massacre a consequential one at the local level. To gauge local sentiment on [...]
Tweet The Kansas Libertarian Party on Friday — the same day the president observed a moment of silence marking a week after the Newtown, Conn., massacre and the NRA took blistering criticism for calls to bring armed guards to every school in the country — filed lawsuits against Leawood, Wyandotte County and Prairie Village over their bans [...]
Tweet Prairie Village city councilor Michael Kelly sent us the following commentary on the threatened lawsuit that would challenge Prairie Village’s ban on openly carrying firearms. Earl McIntosh of the Kansas Libertarian Party told PVPost.com this morning that the group planned on filing the suit “by the end of the day.” Lawyers, guns and money [...]
Tweet If you want to know what the new Gateway will look like when it is completed, a set of renderings and a video from the developers gives the best picture yet of what to expect in the coming years at the corner of Shawnee Mission Parkway and Roe Avenue. The depictions are part of [...]
Tweet Growing up, we usually had seafood for Christmas Eve dinner, something warm and hearty that would get the 5 of us through that midnight church service. Things are a little different these days. We usually go to the 5 pm service, followed by a family dinner with 30 extended family members. We get off [...]
Tweet Well, readers, we got another note in the old PVPost.com mailbag that we thought would probably best be handled via our community discussion series, “Talk amongst yourselves.” Prairie Village resident and Brainzooming CEO Mike Brown sent us the following note: “Have you all ever thought about doing a story on the odd phenomenon of [...]
Tweet The Great Thundersnow of 2012 did more than just give us all the opportunity to use the term “thundersnow” — for which I, at least, am eternally grateful. It also gave Prairie Village’s Public Works Department a chance to try out a new street salt product it hopes will save the city money and reduce [...]
