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Archives for September, 2012
Tweet We’ll be posting live updates from the tonight’s Lancer football game vs. Olathe East starting at 7 p.m. (It’s Homecoming, by the by):
Tweet Kansas City, Mo., police have put out a missing persons bulletin for Robert Farris, a 51-year-old man last seen in Prairie Village Wednesday, Sept. 5. Info put out by the police is below: Robert Farris was last seen about 3 p.m. Sept. 5 in Prairie Village, Kan. He lives near 49th and Bell in [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff One of my favorite things to do in the fall is to build a bonfire. I love the crackling logs and the smell of smoke. I love the beauty of the autumn leaves, and singing campfire songs. But most of all, I love roasting marshmallows. I guess it’s the 9-year-old in [...]
Tweet It’s time to clear out the medicine cabinet. Fairway police will sponsor a ‘Prescription Drug Take Back Day’ Saturday at the Fairway Hen House just off Shawnee Mission Parkway near Belinder. You can drop off any unwanted and unused prescription drugs inside the store next to the pharmacy. A uniformed Fairway officer will secure [...]
Tweet In light of revelations that the Prairie Village Public Works department had been throwing the contents of recycling bins at Franklin Park out with the trash, the city’s Environmental Committee on Wednesday passed a resolution that would require all Public Works staff to go through a training program. The program, which is likely to [...]
Tweet Alcohol and drug prevention are high on the radar screen at SM East this school year. After a significant number of violations of the school’s contract for athletes during the last school year, East Principal Dr. Karl Krawitz wants to see a change in the culture and a conversation started in the homes about [...]
Tweet The Mission City Council could apply for a degree in finance by the time the Gateway project turns its first shovelful of dirt. Wednesday night the topic was internal rate of return and how the council can figure out if the deal it plans to make with the New York developer is reasonable for [...]
Tweet Our photos yesterday of a red tailed hawk perching on the St. Ann Church cross prompted readers Kathy and David Casteel to pass along some good shots of a big ol’ guy hanging out on her birdbath this July: Based on its chest marking and the time of year it was spotted, I’m guessing [...]
Tweet I have the feeling a few of you suspected that last week’s canned pineapple shot must have signaled the impended end of the record-settingly popular “Pineapple sequence” here at “Where’s that at?” “Oh,” you were thinking. “They had to take a picture of canned pineapple in the grocery store because they couldn’t find any [...]
Tweet So we might not officially live in Money magazine’s top ten places. But a recent set of rankings by Coldwell Banker Real Estate should have northeast Johnson County residents feeling pretty good about the place they call home. The top suburbs rankings had Mission Hills, Leawood, Prairie Village, Westwood and Fairway as Kansas’ top [...]
Tweet On the ACTs, SM East students rule. On the SATs, they appear to need a bit more school. SM East placed third among the five Shawnee Mission high schools with an average composite of 1,789, finishing behind SM South (1,902 average composite) and SM Northwest (1,835). SM West’s average composite was 1,782. SM North’s [...]
Tweet I’m prepared to be laughed out of the flock by birders more experienced that I for this ID…but we came across what I believe to be a red tailed hawk, better known as the bird on the Free State Beer shirt, perched on the St. Ann church cross on Sunday. The big fella was [...]
Tweet Prairie Village resident Robert Magee and his Munchin’ Hogs at the Hilton barbecue team keep smokin’ up success. The Hogs were named Grand Champions at the sixth annual “Battle of the Brisket” competition at the Mission Arts and Eats Festival. By scoring the highest combined total in judges’ marks for their brisket, ribs, pork [...]
Tweet A local agency’s recent analysis of data from the U.S. Census provides a sobering assessment of poverty rates in Johnson County. The United Community Services of Johnson County report shows 18.9 percent of Johnson Countians are low income, a category defined as 200 percent of the federal poverty level. That’s an increase of nearly [...]
Tweet A business idea born by two local moms watching their sons on the sidelines of a playground is enjoying success after opening for business at the Fairway Shops this summer. Hoopla manicure and pedicure studio held its official ribbon cutting ceremony on Tuesday. It’s been open since July. Owners Molly Maxwell and Megan Thornberry [...]
Tweet Highlands Elementary was the highlight school at the Shawnee Mission School Board Monday and new principal Marilyn Webb focused on the school’s parents. Webb reminded the board that she had closed two district schools as principal and was glad to be at Highlands in a new building only in its third year of operation. [...]
Tweet Indian Hills students last week all had a chance to enter the NFL’s national Punt, Pass and Kick competition. Each of the gym classes of seventh and eighth graders took part, testing their skills in the three areas. The longest yardage in each category will get to compete in the regional in Tonganoxie and [...]
Tweet The Shawnee Mission School Board formally accepted the resignation of Superintendent Gene Johnson Monday night and continued its accolades for his service. Several board members took the opportunity to praise Johnson’s 5-year tenure. The board will do a national search for a new superintendent by hiring a consulting firm to guide the process. It [...]
Tweet In coverage sure to promote a thoughtful, measured debate about the need to balance individual rights with those of one’s neighbors and community safety, the Prairie Village City Council’s recent passage of an ordinance that would require Mike Babick to get a permit for his annual Christmas display has made it onto the homepage [...]
Tweet Speaking of Homecoming, SM East students are voting this week for the class of 2013′s Queen and King. The Queen will be crowned on the field during halftime of Friday’s Homecoming Game at SM South. The King will be crowned during the Homecoming Dance on Saturday. This year’s candidates are: Homecoming Queen: Madi Bradley [...]
Tweet The first four games of the season have the looks of something special for the SM East Lancers football team. And the Lancer Gridiron Club wants former players to get in on the spirit. The Lancer Gridiron Club is inviting all SM East football alumni to return to the hallowed grounds of SM South [...]
Tweet If you haven’t noticed by the near constant attention in the national press to a race between two fellas named Obama and Romney, there’s a big ol’ election coming up in November. And, as is our wont, we’re going to be putting out a questionnaire to local candidates about the issues most important to [...]
Tweet By margins wide and small, the SM East varsity boys soccer team just keeps finding ways to win. The Lancers started last week’s action with a road game against Lawrence Free State. Despite keeping control of the ball for the vast majority of the first half and outshooting Free State, SM East found its [...]
Tweet Do you still have those secret documents in the closet with your bank account numbers and passwords? If you live in Fairway, Roeland Park, Mission or Mission Hills you can get rid of it all safely and securely this Saturday. Your opportunity will be in the Fairway City Hall parking lot (4210 Shawnee Mission [...]
Tweet I, for one, am not quite ready to quit reliving the Lancers’ remarkable win over state champion Olathe South last Thursday. And with the help of Lancer football filmaker Brian Libeer and Kevin Booker, proprietor of Booker T Sports Reports, LLC and possessor of the most robust knowledge of SM East sports history possible, [...]
