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Archives for March, 2012
Tweet MVS, LLC partner Dan Lowe’s denial of responsibility for a proposal calling for 400,000-plus square feet of mixed use development to be built on the Mission Valley Middle School site has prompted a lengthy response from Prairie Village city administrators. In an article that ran in the Kansas City Star’s 913 section Wednesday, reporter [...]
Tweet Does anyone own a time machine that we can borrow? Our daughter turns 2 on Monday and I wouldn’t mind placing life on hold for a minute. Last year she was crawling and saying just a few words. Today she’s running, and talking and singing nonstop. I can hardly believe how much she’s grown [...]
Tweet Prairie Village has given the green light to a project that will add a second story classroom to Highlawn Montessori School on Somerset Drive — but on the condition that the city and school take steps to mitigate potential traffic problems in the area. After somewhat lengthy discussion last week, the Prairie Village City [...]
Tweet March + 80 degrees = lots of early Spring color. To help fully capture the spirit of the season, we’ve decided to hold a li’l photo contest. Send us your best pics of Spring scenes from around the area — flowers, birds, li’l bunny rabbits…you get the idea. The photo that most closely meets [...]
Tweet Well, good friends, it’s been a long and lonesome road these past five weeks. Public pressure forced us to cast aside the comfortable jacket that was “Where’s that at?” as a title for our increasingly acknowledged photo find-it series and put on an avante garde, and, frankly, challenging fashion show of sorts. We tried [...]
Tweet This time of year — with the memory of barren February limbs still fresh in our minds — it’s easy to appreciate the mature stock of trees we have in northeast Johnson County. And the towering oaks and sycamores of Prairie Village aren’t just easy on the eyes. They’ve also earned the city Tree City USA [...]
Tweet If you hadn’t noticed, it was warm this winter. Like, really, really warm. Which was probably a pretty big disappointment to the thousands of school kids who pine for a blessed break in the form of a snow day. Well, kids, here’s a little deferred gratification: The Shawnee Mission School District will be letting [...]
Tweet A floatable fixture in a Fairway driveway that upset many neighbors has found a new home thanks to another Fairway resident. After dozens of complaints from people who live in the area, the City Council held a special meeting in late February and formally declared the boat, which had sat in the driveway at [...]
Tweet Villagers looking to blow off a little steam, get their heart rate up, or bring their stress level down have a new fitness option at Corinth Square. Fitness professionals Janell and Glen Bartlett opened a new studio, Kempo Fitness, on the west side of the main Corinth building near Social Suppers and Soul Patch [...]
Tweet A’ight, Jayhawk fans, now that you’ve had a day to settle down, let’s take a step back and analyze the team’s chances in the Final Four. How do you think they’ll fare?
Tweet Prairie Village resident SuEllen Fried, a longtime anti-bullying advocate, was recently recognized by the Diplomatic Courier, a global affairs policy publication, as a “Global Woman” in its International Women’s Day edition. Fried served as chair of Prevent Child Abuse America from 1980-1982, and founded the agency that became Sunflower House, a child abuse prevention [...]
Tweet Better-than-expected revenues and across-the-board belt tightening left nearly $1.8 million more than budgeted in Prairie Village’s general fund at the end of 2011, according to a new financial report. Despite the fact that property tax and motor vehicle tax revenues declined in 2011, strong income from liquor and use taxes buoyed the city’s revenue [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village Police Department reports that it issued 21 citations as part of a statewide traffic enforcement effort earlier this month. Sgt. James Carney says police issued 16 citations to adults for seat belt violations, and five citations to drivers and passengers who were under 18. The also issued eight miscellaneous citations. Carney [...]
Tweet You crazy kids, you People passing McCrum Park in Prairie Village on Sunday might have noticed a full-sized couch sitting in the middle of the tennis court. A neighbor whose house abuts the parks says a group of teenagers were there for nearly two hours Saturday night, and that when he woke up Sunday, [...]
Tweet It will take a bit of bureaucratic contortionism, but local government and business officials appear to have found an avenue to work around a set of Kansas liquor laws that could have left patrons of the Prairie Village Art Fair feeling blue. After a set of rules pertaining to the state’s outdoor dining regulations [...]
Tweet The wave of aging baby boomers coming down the pike — a “silver tsunami” — is likely to revolutionize the makeup of first-ring suburban communities like those in northeast Johnson County, says Gene Wilson, the retired senior vice president of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Wilson delivered the keynote speech at yesterday’s Northeast Johnson [...]
Tweet For my money, it doesn’t get any better than an egg sandwich. Crispy, gooey, cheesy – this is one of my favorite meals morning, noon, or night. But until recently, I didn’t have a good creation system down for this bad boy. The problem was getting the egg cooked, the cheese melted, and the [...]
Tweet Today, our final question for the Prairie Village City Council candidates: 5.) Do you support the system of trails that were part of the Parks Master Plan adopted by the city in 2009? Should the city move forward with implementing that plan? Ward 4 Dale Beckerman (incumbent) Prairie Village is the city we enjoy [...]
Tweet Prairie Village City Councilwoman Ruth Hopkins got to make yet another trip to the White House last week in her role on the National League of Cities Advisory Council. Hopkins and other League of Cities members were in Washington, D.C., last week for the Congressional City Conference. As part of the conference, a group [...]
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Tweet Today, our fourth question for the Prairie Village City Council candidates: 4.) The city recently made a significant investment in a geothermal heating and cooling system for city hall that is environmentally friendly and is expected to save the city significant expenses in the long run. What other steps should the city take to [...]
Tweet Emails between Prairie Village staff and elected officials obtained under an open records request hint at tensions between the city’s Parks and Recreation Committee chair and administration — tensions that those familiar with the situation say may have led to negative outcomes related to recent parks projects, including the Tomahawk Road fence scheduled to [...]
Tweet Assistant City Administrator Dennis Ensligner on Monday told the Prairie Village City Council that the city had received word from Falmouth Street resident Mike Babick’s attorney that Babick would be contesting the citation he the city issued in January over code violations related to his annual Christmas display. Enslinger said the attorney, Frank Gilman, [...]
Tweet To be sure, there were plenty of local teens who spent their Spring Break last week lounging on a beach or hitting the ski slopes. But for many in the SM East choir, Spring Break meant a trip to Italy to share their talents. With 180 students, teachers and chaperones, it was a major [...]
Tweet Today, the candidates for Prairie Village City Council respond to the third item from our five-item questionnaire. 3.) The Parks and Recreation Committee is working on language for a ballot measure that would put a .5 percent sales tax increase to fund parks improvements and maintenance before Prairie Village voters. Do you support the [...]
