Archives for May 17th, 2012
Tweet Prairie Village-based venture capitalist Fred Coulson thinks it’s ridiculous that non-coastal American cities has been derided as “flyover country.” So his company, Five Elms Capital, decided to turn that mocking moniker on its head. Tomorrow, the application period closes for the first-ever Flyover 50 contest, honoring the 50 fastest-growing companies in the Midwest. The [...]
Tweet We went exploring the nooks and crannies of Prairie Village and its surroundings for this week’s WTA. Guess away:
Tweet It took him three full sets and a tie-breaker, but Kansas City Christian freshman Johnny Goodwin wound up with a pretty special Mother’s Day gift for his mom Kristin last Saturday. But knocking off Eduardo Martelli, an Italian exchange student playing for Sterling High School, in the state 1A-3A tennis tournament, he made Kristin [...]
Tweet Local resident, retired principal and former school board candidate Bart Altenbernd grew up on a farm near Lawrence in the 1960s. And as his own son was growing up Altenbernd often used anecdotes from his own childhood as bedtime stories. From a haunted house in Eudora to an encounter with a mad mother pig, [...]






























