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Archives for May, 2012
Prairie Village Art Fair returns Friday — and with it, PVPost.com’s ‘Show us your art face!’ contest
Tweet Villagers: Stretch out those facial muscles. Because the annual Prairie Village Art Fair returns Friday — and with it will come our uber-popular “Show Us Your Art Face” contest. The fair kicks off at 5 p.m. at the Village Shops. Artists’ booths open at 5 p.m. The Michael Beers Band will play from 7 to [...]
Tweet In honor of the Space X launch last week, we figured we’d offer up this stellar puzzler:
Tweet Prairie Village Public Works crews on Wednesday removed the two signs they’d put up two weeks earlier warning residents that the Oxford Road fountain was not for playing. Initially, Public Works said the signs were necessary to protect the city from liability should a child get sick from playing in the fountain, which does [...]
Tweet Baseball Hall-of-Famer and Mission Hills’ resident George Brett generated national media attention Wednesday when he leveraged his relatively new Twitter account to solicit help finding his family’s beloved Labradoodle Charlie, who was lost near the family’s home near Seneca Street and Tomahawk Road. His initial 10:35 p.m. message Tuesday night set off a firestorm [...]
Tweet Remember how we told you earlier this month that the Prairie Village police would be participating in the statewide Click It or Ticket campaign? Well sir, they weren’t fooling around. Traffic unit officer James Carney reports that in the first week of the campaign, the department issued 108 seat belt citations. As part of [...]
Tweet Prairie Village resident and technophile Steve Revare has a passion for music. So the night he watched a concertgoer squinting into his cell phone’s screen as he recorded a video of the band playing their hearts out onstage, he had an epiphany: There’s got to be a better way to use phones to connect [...]
Tweet Fairway city officials confirmed Tuesday that the United States Postal Service did not contact the city before installing two “cluster mailboxes” on city easements – a move that likely may not infringe on any of the city’s rights, but does violate “common courtesy,” according to former Fairway mayor John St. Clair, Jr. City Administrator Kate [...]
Tweet A reader passed along a copy of the letter Reinhardt neighborhood homeowners received from the United States Post Office regarding the decision to install three group mailboxes for homeowners in the area. The letter, dated May 24, says that a letter carrier was threatened on May 23. The three “neighborhood deliver and collection box [...]
Tweet A seven-run fourth inning spelled doom for the SM East softball team Saturday in its first appearance in the state 6A tournament in seven years. The Lancers had taken a one-run lead in the top of the fourth before top-seeded Maize’s bats came alive in the bottom of the inning. The Lancers held Maize [...]
Tweet Prairie Village native and Bishop Miege graduate Sean Foley was among seven University of Kansas law students recognized during graduation ceremonies earlier this month for distinguished scholarship, leadership and community service. Foley received the Walter Hiersteiner Outstanding Service Award. The award honors students whose “service to his or her fellow students demonstrates the greatest [...]
Tweet Story restaurant opened at the Village Shops a year ago, and to commemorate the occasion, chef Carl Thorne-Thomsen decided to do something a little different. Something big. Something bold. Something…inside the box. As part of the restaurant’s first-anniversary celebrations, Thorne-Thomsen ordered up a whole pig and planned to cook it — unbutchered — in a large [...]
Tweet A group of homeowners in the Reinhardt Estates neighborhood in Fairway recently received a letter from the United States Post Office informing them that, on account of concerns about individual homeowners whose dogs had threatened mailmen, the postal service would no longer be delivering mail to individual homes. Instead, approximately 30 neighbors who live [...]
Tweet It was a diamond day Sunday for the second annual Bark-n-Blues music and dogs festival at Franklin Park. Josh Vowell and the Rumble provided the “blues” mentioned in the event title: Pretty much everyone else provided the “bark”: The event, put on by Tomahawk Animal Hospital and Somerset Veterinary Clinic, helps support metro area [...]
Tweet Thirty years after they made their last appearance, the SM East softball team is set to take the field this evening in the Kansas 6A state tournament. The resurgent Lancer softball program has gone from winning just one game five years ago to notching a best-in-school-history 16-6 record in 2012. They beat a talented Olathe [...]
Tweet If you haven’t noticed, it’s been hot this spring. Hot and (with the notable exception of last night and today) dry. Like, hot and dry enough that our yard looks like it’s mid-August and I’ve started to carry around a “dabbing cloth” for my brow. Which is why it’s welcome fun to be able [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff The other day my colleague asked me what sweetened condensed milk was. She needed it for a recipe and had never used it before. I couldn’t hide my surprise – I honestly think I could live off the stuff. Luckily, sweetened condensed milk makes regular appearances in our house due to [...]
Tweet Some of Kansas City’s brightest young performers had to wait out an hour-long rain delay before they got to shine Thursday during the 10th annual Blue Star Awards. SM East junior Lily Kaufmann was one of five metro-area girls tapped for a featured performance before a crowd of hundreds at Starlight Theatre for the [...]
Tweet Another set of national high school rankings place SM East in an elite group. The Washington Post’s annual “High School Challenge” rankings name SM East as the fourth best school in Kansas, behind Sumner Academy in Kansas City, Kan., Blue Valley North and Blue Valley Northwest. Last year, SM East placed fifth in the [...]
Tweet We’re getting in the seasonally appropriate mood with this week’s puzzler:
Tweet Prairie Village city staff have unveiled a general outline for a proposed 2013 budget, and say they are working to keep existing service levels intact without raising property taxes. City Administrator Quinn Bennion told the City Council earlier this week his proposed budget would hold the city’s mill levy at 19.491 and the stormwater [...]
Tweet One year after implementing a new set of techniques to deter break ins in areas that had seen sharp increases over the past three years, the Prairie Village Police report that burglary numbers for the city are markedly down. Twelve full months of crime data show that, since the department enacted the Data Driven [...]
Tweet Less than a year after it opened to substantial acclaim at Corinth Square, Urban Table’s management has unveiled a series of changes aimed at making the restaurant more welcoming to families with children. Starting last month, Urban Table began offering a children’s menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It also brought in booster seats [...]
Tweet Johnson County Community College officials gathered Tuesday to break ground on a construction project the school hopes will help propel its already well-respected hospitality program to even greater acclaim — a project that wouldn’t have been possible without the support of retired state Sen. David Wysong of Mission Hills. In 2008, Wysong and his [...]
Tweet SM East has again made it onto Newsweek magazine’s list of the best high schools in the country — though its standing in relation to other area schools has slipped. The rankings, released earlier this week, place SM East as the 540th best school in the country. Last year, its ranking was 326th, making it [...]
Tweet Well, the parade of state titles had to end somewhere. The Lancers boys golf team placed third in the state tournament at Buffalo Dunes Golf Course in Garden City Monday, ending its three-championship streak. Blue Valley North took the title with a team score of 300. Blue Valley West came in second with 315, [...]
