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Archives for February, 2012
Tweet UltraMax Sports, the running specialty store taking over the space previously occupied by Stoney Broke, Ltd., at the Village Shops, is set to open its doors sometime today, said Assistant General Manager Eric Hunt. Hunt said the store will focus on providing high-service consultation for runners, from beginners to veterans. The store has a [...]
Tweet In the tea party era, one of the most frequently parroted political refrains is that governments shouldn’t borrow money they don’t have. But for the man who chaired the Prairie Village’s finance committee in 2009 when it went forward with $8 million in new bonds, the city’s decision to incur debt was the smart [...]
Tweet It was a big weekend for SM East’s Academic World Quest team, which beat out teams from 15 other local high schools in the competition that tests students’ knowledge on world affairs, geography, history and current events. The SM East team of Hudson Peters, Andrew McWard, Jocelyn Worner and Anamika Ratri took first place [...]
Tweet Incumbent Dale Beckerman and challenger Brooke Morehead emerged from a three-person primary race Tuesday for the Ward 4 seat on the Prairie Village City Council, sending both onto the general election ballot April 3. Morehead came out on top of the results, with 196 votes, or 42 percent of the total. Beckerman was second [...]
Tweet Mission Hills resident Chuck Wells can still remember walking with his friends in the 1950s from Prairie Village across the state line into Brookside, catching a bus to 22nd Street and Brooklyn Avenue, and spending the afternoon watching the Kansas City Athletics at Municipal Stadium. All without parents. “This was considered a perfectly safe [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village Police Department this week launched a new Facebook page that will allow residents to post questions and get up-to-the-minute updates on department business. Crime prevention officer Matt Boggs said the page would include posts about police department events, crime prevention tips, significant arrests, missing persons, and other department news. Boggs will [...]
Tweet Reading Week at Belinder Elementary got off to an animated start Monday as Miles McMahon from Theatre of the Imagination performed children’s stories and poems for students over the lunch hour: Organizers have the week chock full of reading-centric activities, including a reading rocking chair for parents in the lobby. Each day this week, [...]
Tweet It’s election day, Ward 4. Polls will be open from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. for the three person primary for the Ward 4 City Council seat. The top two vote getters will move on to April’s general election. Here’s a link to yesterday’s election primer, if you missed it. Registered Ward 4 residents will vote [...]
Tweet As the mother of three school-aged girls, Prairie Village resident Suzanne Stratman knows the feeling of just wanting a little time to yourself. And the desire to honor what she calls those “elusive me moments” was strong enough that she decided to turn it into a business idea. Stratman launched So Ready Designs last [...]
Tweet He’s back! Owly, the beloved red-phase Eastern screech owl who set up shop in our backyard last spring, has returned to the notch he occupied last year — before disappearing without even leaving a note. But we don’t hold it against him. We’re just glad he found our hosting abilities adequate enough to pay [...]
Tweet Shane Smith, 42, the man who lost control of a car last Tuesday and smashed into a brick wall near the Corinth Library, has four prior DUI arrests, according to Johnson County Sheriff’s Office records. Witnesses who saw the white car Smith was driving prior to the accident said they saw him speeding down [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village Ward 4 City Council primary election will be held tomorrow, Tuesday, Feb. 28. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The election features three candidates: incumbent Dale Beckerman and challengers Brooke Morehead and Tim Pickell. The two candidates with the most votes in the primary will advance to [...]
Tweet One of the most popular Ripple Glass bins in the Kansas City metro area will be hopping around a bit in the coming days. The Corinth Square bin found a very temporary home behind Hattie’s Coffee after demolition on the Tippin’s building began last week. But concerns about noise for the merchants in that [...]
Tweet This Saturday marks 6 years of happy marriage for the mister and me. We wed in a little chapel, then danced the night away at the Maritime Museum in San Francisco (where we were living at the time). We had a fabulous evening. We loved our deejay (my brother), the atmosphere of the museum [...]
Tweet Eric Rogers of Bike Walk KC, an advocacy group promoting an “accessible outdoor experience” for the metro region, says his organization sees Prairie Village as a key component to building a metro-wide trails system. “Prairie Village fits in very well to a regional plan,” he said. “It’s a pretty easy ride to the Plaza, [...]
Tweet The unseasonably warm weather and calm skies provided the perfect trappings for an airplane ride over Prairie Village. But since, like, we don’t have an airport, aviation enthusiasts have to settle for the next best thing. We caught up with John Koehler, a retired dentist who lives just over the state line in Kansas [...]
Tweet Crews from WaterOne have spent the weeks since the McCrum Park water tower was removed engaged in the time-consuming process of digging out the concrete footings that anchored the enormous structure for 60 years. Prairie Village Public Works Director Bruce McNabb said work is on target to meet the scheduled April re-opening date for [...]
Tweet Over the past few weeks, we’ve gotten a number of comments from readers lamenting the fact that our record-breaking, much-beloved weekly photo identification feature “Where’s that at?” had a grammatically troubling title. We were aware of that when we christened it — it was, you know, like, a li’l joke — but it appears [...]
Tweet Prior to the creation and adoption of its Parks Master Plan in 2009, the Prairie Village City Council spent months collecting input from residents through workshops, interviews and a survey sent to 2100 people. In that survey, 79 percent of respondents said they were in favor of the idea of a trail system that [...]
Tweet The $10.5 million Hall Family Foundation grant announced earlier this week to support The University of Kansas Cancer Center’s quest for National Cancer Institute designation will be a boon for the just-opened University of Kansas Clinical Research Center in Fairway. The vast majority of the grant — $7 million — will provide funding for [...]
Tweet An intoxicated man lost control of his car Tuesday evening, swerving over a curb heading southbound on Mission Road and running into a brick wall just north of the Corinth Library. Police responded to the scene of the single car accident around 5:30 p.m. and found the man had sustained a small cut on [...]
Tweet An agenda item that read as a simple call for clarification about the Prairie Village City Council’s support for a series of walking and biking trails devolved into a nightmarish bureaucratic squabble that seemed leave city staff, council members and residents frustrated Monday. City Administrator Quinn Bennion and Assistant City Administrator Dennis Enslinger addressed [...]
Tweet Construction crews: Ready your implements. LANE4 vice president Jeff Berg told the Prairie Village City Council on Monday that the first round of major renovations funded by the Corinth Square Community Improvement District sales tax should begin the first week of April. The first phase of renovations will include a significant facelift of the [...]
Tweet A Prairie Village man is making a name for himself as a Canadian. Johnson County Community College student Aaron Haffey recently received an honorable mention for his portrayal of Canada’s position on the Commission on Science and Technology committee at the 2012 Midwest Model United Nations Conference in St. Louis. Haffey discussed intellectually property [...]
Tweet The proposed route change for a Prairie Village trail won’t be the only item of interest on tonight’s Prairie Village City Council agenda. LANE4 Property Group, which owns the Village Shops and Corinth Square, is scheduled to give a presentation updating the council on planned developments to be funded by Community Improvement District tax [...]
