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Archives for November 8th, 2012
Tweet Funds from Johnson County’s cars program will go to rehabbing sub-par streets in Prairie Village, Leawood and Mission, among other municipalities, in 2013. The Johnson County Board of Commissioners last week approved a $13.1 million budget for its County Assistance Road System (CARS) program. Among the 19 projects on the docket in 2013 [...]
Tweet I ran around town for hours this week trying to find one — just one! — wild pineapple plant growing. All I found was this stupid pumpkin growing out of the top of a concrete statue-thing:
Tweet The SM East student council’s annual can drive to benefit the Johnson County Christmas Bureau is under way. Through Nov. 16, students will be collecting canned goods for JCCB’s annual Holiday Shop, where for a $5 fee families in need can come in and pick up food, children’s clothing, toys, books, coats and [...]
Tweet Last week, after a particularly good day here at the Prairie Village Post, I ripped a piece of paper off a notepad on my desk and wrote the name Bob Dillon in large, capital letters. I underlined it. The time had finally come, I decided, to reach out and reconnect with the man [...]
Tweet A local arbor advocacy organization is providing a digital option to help keep Kansas City’s urban forests vital — and Prairie Village, Mission and Leawood are among the first sites to be targeted by its campaigns. The Heartland Tree Alliance last month launched a website to accept donations that will be used to plant [...]
Tweet Nine days after Hurricane Sandy battered the New York coast, 2001 SM East grad Elise Heeran and her two young daughters are still in exile from their Rockaway Beach apartment — and the chances of heading home soon are still slim. In fact, Heeran says, residents who had managed to return to the community in [...]
