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Archives for August, 2012
Tweet We’ll be posting live updates from the Lancer Day Parade and season-opening football game below:
Tweet The Mission Gateway project picked up momentum this week as the developer for the property announced another tenant and the Mission City Council began prepping for its upcoming decisions about financing for the development. The Gateway, between Johnson Drive and Shawnee Mission Parkway along Roe Avenue, will have a Sprouts Farmers Market joining the [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff I recently hosted a candy bar taste-off as part of a work retreat. There were some great options: Whatchamacalits, Toblerone, Cadbury Fruit and Nut bars, and the winner – Dark Chocolate Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. But my favorite was the Twix Bar. Apparently it had been too long since I’d sampled [...]
Tweet Kids across the Prairie Village area have been waiting for today’s Lancer Day Parade at 2 p.m. But for Lancer Head Football Coach Chip Sherman, it’s 7 p.m. that can’t come soon enough. “Every team, when you get to this point, is chomping at the bit for a game,” Sherman said. “You’ve done all [...]
Tweet Google Fiber is all the buzz these days, throughout Kansas City and northeast Johnson County. But while communities are begging Google to extend its ultra-fast fiber service to their homes, fiber lines are already being laid through many of those front yards. Right now SureWest is laying fiber in Fairway and has wired Mission [...]
Tweet A locally based fitness business is flexing its muscles with the opening of a new location. Fusion Fitness, which had its first location in downtown Overland Park, is now offering classes at a new Mission Farms facility in north Leawood. The new space officially opened Aug. 6. Prairie Village resident and owner Darby Brender [...]
Tweet Hey northeast Johnson Countians! It’s quiz time: What’s the official fruit of the city of Prairie Village? Think. Think think think. Got it? Did you say pineapple? Of course you didn’t. Because that’s not the official fruit of Prairie Village. In fact, Prairie Village doesn’t even have an official fruit… At least not yet. [...]
Tweet Stirred by her deep feelings about the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, a Prairie Village clinical social worker has become a leader in the local movement to overturn the decision. Mary Lindsay, who has had her clinical practice at Corinth for more than 20 years, is a central organizer for the Kansas City affiliate of [...]
Tweet When Lynn and Elizabeth Turner pulled out of their driveway last week to head to a sentencing hearing at the Johnson County Courthouse in Olathe, one of their Village Drive neighbors had a clear message for them: We don’t want you dealing drugs around here anymore. Christine Hoober, who lives two doors down from [...]
Tweet Well, northeast Johnson County residents, there’s a pretty good chance your house is really close to the ninth best place to live in the entire country, according to Money magazine. In the issue that hit stands this week, Money released its annual best places to live list. Carmel, Ind., a suburb of Indianapolis, took [...]
Tweet Prairie Elementary principal Scott Merfen has a target on his tennis shoes. More than 100 Prairie students have signed up for the new Prairie Panther Running Club, a training program helping kids prepare for the school’s second annual Prairie Pride 5K Sept. 22. And one of the biggest motivating factors for the kids so [...]
Tweet A Fairway task force exploring speed limits and traffic on residential streets has already put some ideas into play on a trial basis. Fairway Councilor Tony Liu is one of the co-chairs for the Glenfield Task Force and is helping facilitate discussions that include a second open public forum at 7 p.m. Sept. 6 [...]
Tweet This long, hot summer appears to be staging a final assault on thermometers — and is likely to push even more of the area’s stressed-out trees over the edge in the process. Over the past three weeks, dozens of local evergreen trees have turned brown and started shedding needles. And K-State Extension horticulturist Dennis [...]
Tweet A little rain and overcast skies weren’t enough to deter more than 300 families from enjoying the annual St. Ann 8th graders’ carnival. Featuring traditional carnival games and food along with appearances by the KC Chiefs Rumble Line drummers, the event raised funds for the 8th graders’ class gift to the parish as well [...]
Tweet Well, readers, after an initial bit of happy news we passed along last week, we’ve got a sad development to report. Boone the cat, who was injured in a fight with an unleashed dog near 69th Street and Fonticello, took a turn for the worse after returning home and died yesterday. Owner Deric Stewart [...]
Tweet Just when you thought the drought could not be more of an inconvenience, a new problem pops up. Although only a few instances have been reported, the drought is blamed for pulling some electric meters away from houses. The good news is that the problem affects only homes where electrical service comes underground. Most [...]
Tweet A recommendation to close Westwood View Elementary is not moving forward, Shawnee Mission School Superintendent Gene Johnson said after Monday’s board meeting. A strategic planning committee meeting earlier this year made several recommendations for facilities upgrades and closures. Among the schools targeted for closure by the report were Westwood View located off Rainbow on [...]
Tweet What could be more idyllic than a late-summer swing in the park, with your feet to the sky, the wind blowing through your hair, all your troubles floating away? Well, hopefully something. Because two sets of swings at Prairie Village’s Franklin and Porter Parks are out of commission for the near future, which means [...]
Tweet A water main break will force all of the end-of-the-year Leawood swimmers over to the Prairie Village pool tonight. Both pools are on their end of summer schedules, which means they do not open until late afternoon. The Prairie Village pool opens at 4:30 p.m. Leawood pool passes will be honored at Prairie Village [...]
Tweet Football wasn’t the only SM East sport preparing this weekend for the official start to the season. The SM East cross country team held time trials at Shawnee Mission Park Saturday morning. More than 100 runners took to the course, with the top ten boys and girls making the Lancers varsity teams. (The girls’ [...]
Tweet Bringing a community’s own stories into performance makes a powerful connection for the community and an audience, a power Fairway’s Donna Ziegenhorn believes in and has witnessed through her own work. “From a distance we can enter someone else’s life and a playwright can raise more intimate questions,” she says. “They claim who they [...]
Tweet The SM East junior parking lot was full of tailgaters. The bleachers were packed with parents and students. And the air was full of anticipation as the countdown to the Lancers’ football season-opener entered its final week. The Lancer faithful got their first good look at the 2012 football teams Friday during the annual [...]
Tweet Lana Hergenrader said she was sure she would be able to keep her composure. She was strong. She was ready to put on a brave face to show the others what beating cancer looked like. After all, Hergenrader had been free of the disease for more than a year. But as the first strains [...]
Tweet Parking and traffic were the top concerns expressed by attendees at LANE4′s presentation Thursday about major planned redevelopments at the Village Shops. During the presentation, LANE4 president Owen Buckley walked the crowd through the company’s plans to completely revamp Mission Lane and build a new 6,000 square foot retail space to replace the current [...]
Tweet Lancer football fans: Tonight’s the night. The teams take to the field at 6 p.m. for the annual Black and Blue scrimmages, a chance for fans and family to get a look at this year’s team before they officially open up the season next Friday against the rival SM South Raiders. It’s a great [...]
