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Archives for March, 2012
Tweet Lawyers representing Prairie Village are preparing for a lawsuit they expect to be filed before the statute of limitations expires on civil action that could be taken in regards to a 2010 police shooting that killed a depressed woman who officers say pulled a weapon on them. City attorney Catherine Logan told the City [...]
Tweet Fire Marshall Todd Kerkhoff said the investigation into the explosion that ripped through a Prairie Village home Sunday has narrowed to the natural gas piping and valve running to a fireplace on the exterior of the house. The scene is still cordoned off as investigators wait to have a final test conducted to determine [...]
Tweet The president of the company that bought the Village Shops, Fairway Shops and Corinth Square in a much touted $62.1 business deal three years ago has a new position of influence in the real estate world. LANE4 Property Group’s Owen Buckley was named the Missouri state director for the International Council of Shopping Centers, [...]
Tweet Today, the candidates for Prairie Village City Council answer our second questionnaire item: 2.) Do you think elected officials in Prairie Village should be subject to term limits? Why or why not? If so, how long should officials be permitted to serve? Ward 4 Candidates Brooke Morehead I support term limits for council and mayor. In [...]
Tweet Fairway City Treasurer Bob Mapes loved his dog Hank, often bringing him to City Hall, where the big yellow Labrador would wait by Mapes’ feet while he attended to business. And Mapes loved making sure Hank had a special status with the city. “Each year, he’d be the first one in line to get [...]
Tweet Mission Hills’ Barbara Bollier, a retired anesthesiologist now serving in the Kansas House of Representatives, has been a lone voice of dissent among her Republican peers on issues of reproductive health — particularly those concerning proposed laws that would make it more difficult for women to get abortions. Her objection to a proposal currently before [...]
Tweet Today, we present answers to the first of our questionnaire items for the Prairie Village City Council candidates. 1.) In discussions surrounding the redevelopment of the Mission Valley Middle School site, some have suggested that the city should take an active role in ensuring the site remain a school – while others point out that [...]
Tweet A Sunday morning explosion at a Prairie Village home sent one of its inhabitants to be treated for minor injuries. Consolidated Fire District No. 2 Battalion Chief Bob Wilcox said investigators were still looking into what caused the explosion in the 4500 block of 66th Terrace, and said they were likely to release at [...]
Tweet Prairie Village City Hall may end up being a lively place on Election Night – but not because of voting in the city council races. The city today put nearly 800 letters in the mail informing residents in the Nall Avenue and Roe Avenue neighborhoods of a public hearing at the April 3 Planning Commission [...]
Tweet I love St. Patrick’s Day. Not for any of the usual reasons (getting drunk on green beer is not my thing), but because it gives me an excuse to make one of my all-time favorite meals: corned beef and cabbage. My mother’s family was Irish, so this was a very traditional meal growing up [...]
Tweet When Tom O’Sullivan died of colorectal cancer in 2008, Prairie Village resident Doug Sharp knew he had to do something to honor his friend’s memory “It was fast and it was ugly,” Sharp said. “The day of his service, I told my wife we had to figure something out to honor Tom. The pain [...]
Tweet The marked difference between this year’s excessively mild winter and last year’s three-months-long blizzard has had a marked effect on Prairie Village’s bottom line. Total snow removal costs for the 2011-2012 season were just $28,000, according to Public Works Director Bruce McNabb — $89,000 less than $117,000 the city had to spend during the [...]
Tweet As you are well aware by this point, we’ve had a pretty difficult time these past few weeks settling on a title for our award-eligible photo find-it series, formerly known as “Where’s that at?” Since we broke with the original title several weeks ago, each new title iteration has provoked a fresh wave of [...]
Tweet Upgrades to the pool aren’t the only improvements Fairway residents are likely to see around town over the coming months. The city recently received word that it had received a grant to replace all of the city’s existing streetlights — traditional high pressure sodium models — with more energy efficient LED streetlights. Fairway had initially received [...]
Tweet It’s campaign season again, and the experience of one Prairie Village resident is a reminder that political elections have a tendency to get a little bit political. Prairie Village resident Ann Doyle reports that two political yard signs promoting Rick Santorum for president were taken from her yard — and it’s not the first time [...]
Tweet Basketball, we’re told, is a competitive sport in which large people try to put an orange ball through a metal hoop with a net hanging from it. I know — sounds crazy, right!?! Anydoodle, apparently there’s a relatively significant basketball tournament that kicks off tomorrow, and we’re wondering how you think some of the [...]
Tweet Fairway poolgoers will get the benefit of two major facilities improvements this summer thanks to friendly construction costs — one visible, and one underneath the ground. Construction crews are presently doing some groundwork to the north of the pool as part of the installation of a new filtration system. The Fairway City Council approved the [...]
Tweet Hey, kids! If you’ve spent all winter huddled up watching re-runs of Baywatch and consequently find yourself enamored of the lifeguard lifestyle, we’ve got great news. From the city of Prairie Village: The city of Prairie Village is accepting applications for lifeguards and operations attendants for the 2012 pool season. Lifeguard pay starts at [...]
Tweet Kids who’ve been stuck inside all winter probably aren’t the only ones cheering on the arrival of an early spring. With warm weather, door-to-door solicitors tend to come out of the woodwork — and some are more slippery than others. Prairie Village Police crime prevention officer Matt Boggs offers the following tips for dealing [...]
Tweet A stretch of the one of the most popular exercise routes in the area will be closed to wheeled traffic over the course of the next four to six weeks as crews work to repair erosion done to a creek bed wall. Mission Hills has hired a contractor to shore up the banks of [...]
Tweet Prairie Village’s favorite son turned 72 this week. And, frankly, we don’t think Chuck Norris looks a day over 50. All that time working out with Christie Brinkley on the Total Gym has really paid off… What’s that you say? You weren’t aware that Hollywood legend and frequent Internet meme subject Carlos Ray “Chuck” [...]
Tweet Last week, we asked readers to send us the questions they’d like to see the six candidates running for contested seats on the Prairie Village City Council answer. Based on the input we got, we’ve developed the following five item survey. We’ll be sending it out to the candidates today, and start running their [...]
Tweet Texas Congressman Ron Paul’s visit to SM East Saturday may have made fond memories from some of the ardent supporters who got to meet him — but it did little to help his campaign’s quest to pick up presidential delegates in the Kansas’s Republican caucuses. Paul finished fourth in the Kansas field, and the 11 [...]
Tweet Ron Paul supporters at SM East Saturday got a treat when their preferred candidate showed up in person to deliver remarks as part of the Republican Presidential Caucus. Paul arrived in the cafeteria just after 11 a.m., and sat through the remarks of a representative for Newt Gingrich before taking the podium. He spoke [...]
Tweet Just a note to let people know that we’ll be tweeting from the Republican presidential caucus at SM East a bit later today. The caucus starts at 10 a.m., and the doors close at 1 p.m. We’re at twitter.com/pvposter, and we’ll be running a live list of our tweets below. A full recap will [...]
