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Archives for January, 2012
Tweet There are still two showings left for Bye, Bye Birdie, SM East’s 2012 musical. A matinee starts today at 2 p.m. with an evening showing at 7 p.m. The crowd was loving last night’s performance in the Dan Zollars Auditorium at SM East:
Tweet Yo, Villagers: just a heads up that you may see some police and fire department activity at Somerset Elementary over the next few days. Demolition on the site is set to begin after Jan. 22, so local law enforcement and fire crews are going to be using the abandoned school building for training exercises [...]
Tweet I think I need to stop going to the gym. It has not been good for my waist line. You see, every time I get on the treadmill, I turn on the Food Network. And every time I turn on the Food Network, I see an amazing dish that I need to cook and [...]
Tweet KC Restaurant Week kicks off today – and you won’t have to travel far to find the event’s special menus at popular prices. Five local restaurants — the Blue Moose Bar & Grill, BRGR Kitchen + Bar, story, Tavern in the Village and Urban Table — are all participating in the event, which benefits Harvesters. A photo [...]
Tweet A group of Highlands Elementary students, parents and alums decided that instead of just kicking back on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, they’d do some good work. More than 50 people from the Highlands community gathered at Harvesters, the community food bank, on Monday and helped assemble 1,500 “BackSnacks” — backpacks full of food that [...]
Tweet Dress rehearsals are done. Stomachs are filled with butterflies. And soon enough, the curtain will come up. SM East’s theater department will debut its 2012 musical tonight. Bye, Bye Birdie, starring Andrew Beasley as Albert Peterson, Lily Kaufmann as Rose Alvarez, Maddie Sullivan as Kim MacAfee, and Chase Ainsworth as Conrad Birdie. The show [...]
Tweet Ward 1 resident Ashley Weaver has become the first non-incumbent to file for April’s city council elections. She will challenge current council member Al Herrera. Weaver said she was compelled to run for office by a desire to “lead, represent and vote in a responsible manner.” “I want to set a new tone,” she [...]
Tweet The Post Office is staying open! We can all thank God for that. So in honor of the big fella, we figured we’d take a holy slant for this week’s puzzler. Hey, Prairie Village!: Where is this at, ya’ll?:
Tweet The Prairie Village Post office is definitely staying open! Probably! And possibly not in the same location. A community meeting organized by the Postal Service Tuesday seemed to bring good news to those hoping the Post Office at 3710 W 73rd Ter. would be spared the harsh budget cuts the department faces as revenues [...]
Tweet State Rep. Kay Wolf of Prairie Village was one of 40 Republicans to sponsor a bill introduced on the House floor that would allow taxpayers to donate money to the arts. The move comes on the heals of the announcement that Gov. Sam Brownback’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year would include $200,000 [...]
Tweet Prairie Village Police Chief Wes Jordan credited the swift actions of two alert residents with the apprehension of two potential burglars over the weekend. Residents in the 79th and 81st Street blocks of Rosewood Drive saw two men lurking around houses in the area, knocking on front doors and even going into the backyard [...]
Tweet Prairie Village’s Public Works staff had all but closed the books on the fence and trail installation project along Brush Creek from Porter Park to 71st Street. Now, they’re going back to the drawing board. The City Council directed Public Works staff to develop a variety of options for removing the current fence and [...]
Tweet An overflow crowd of Mission Valley-area homeowners voiced strong objections Tuesday to the idea that the site of the vacant school could be redeveloped for commercial use — a wave of input that compelled the council to recommend moving forward with an extensive public planning process for the site. The comprehensive planning process would give [...]
Tweet The Lancers boys basketball team is in the running for KCTV 5′s Hy-Vee High School Team of the Week — and is currently polling a strong second behind the Eagles of Liberty North. You can vote for the Lancers here. If (when?) we prevail, the Lancers will get some friendly coverage on KCTV 5′s [...]
Tweet Weather permitting, the removal of the decommissioned water tower at McCrum Park in Prairie Village could begin as early as this week, Prairie Village Public Works Director Bruce McNabb has told the Prairie Village Parks and Recreation Committee. WaterOne, Johnson County’s water utility, has sold the tank to a company that will reuse it [...]
Tweet Mission Valley-area homeowners spent the weekend organizing in anticipation of the Prairie Village City Council’s planned discussion about how — or whether — the city would proceed with a planning process for the abandoned school. Documents included in the packet for tonight’s council meeting outline information provided by RED Development to the city, most notably [...]
Tweet Happy MLK, Jr. Day, everyone. We’ll be back tomorrow with fresh posts.
Tweet Looks like the group working to bring community garden plots to Prairie Village had a pretty good feel for the market. The plots at Harmon Park and Cherokee Christian Church all sold out within just a few days of opening up for reservations. The plots are set to open up Apr. 2 with a [...]
Tweet Blonde brownies are one of my favorite treats. When we were in the Peace Corps and living on just a few dollars a day, I would occassionally spend our weeks’ allowance on butter and chocolate chips just to make blondies that would be gone in a day. But now that we’re in Prairie Village, [...]
Tweet The Mission Hills City Council is considering a proposal that would make it the first city in the Kansas City area to have curbside glass recycling provided by Ripple Glass, which manages the purple glass drop-off bins throughout the metro. Mission Hills City Administrator Courtney Christensen said Ripple had approached the city as its [...]
Tweet Prairie Village police today area looking for a man who robbed the Pride Cleaners near 79th Street and State Line Road in Prairie Village just before 7 p.m. Thursday. They released the following information and composite sketch: On January 12, 2012 at approximately 6:51 pm, officers responded to an armed robbery that occurred at [...]
Tweet If a spanking new smartphone was part of your Christmas haul last month, you may be able to help some less-fortunate local kids have a happier holiday next year. The Prairie Village Police Department has started a cell phone recycling program with proceeds benefiting “Shop with a Cop.” Money raised from recycling old phones [...]
Tweet 1983 SM East grad and bestselling author Thomas Frank will be at Unity Temple on the Plaza tonight at 7 p.m. for a reading of his latest book, “Pity the Billionaire,” in an event put on by Fairway’s Rainy Day Books. We caught up with Frank Wednesday for a quick interview about growing up [...]
Tweet Ten Prairie Village homeowners with property near the new Brush Creek fence presented a unified front at the Parks and Recreation Committee meeting Wednesday night, with representatives telling the committee they were upset and disappointed with the way the project had been carried out. “We felt blindsided,” said Marianne Noll, who lives with her [...]
Tweet Prairie Village Parks and Recreation Chair Diana Ewy Sharp said Wednesday she was aware on Oct. 3, 2011, that the material for a proposed fence along Brush Creek had changed from previous plans put before the City Council — and that her peers should have known as well. Ewy Sharp rejected suggestions that, as [...]
