Archives for 2012
Tweet Architects have submitted drawings to the Prairie Village Planning Commission for a major renovation to the facade of the Corinth Square Hen House. The new design would eliminate the two main entry doors on the east side of the market and create a larger center entry. The new entry would have a cedar wood [...]
Tweet Apparently it’s going to take some wizardry to make up for recent cuts to state education funding. Around 125 students this weekend hopped on their brooms (or foam pool noodles, as it were) for the inaugural Belinder Elementary Quidditch tournament. The Harry Potter-inspired fun was the idea of Belinder mom Laura Fey, a local [...]
Tweet Financially speaking, the stormy skies so common over the past few years are starting to clear at Prairie Village City Hall. That was the gist of the presentation City Administrator Quinn Bennion gave to the City Council Monday in preparation for the annual budgeting process. “Overall, we’re in a relatively strong position heading into [...]
Tweet With the din of pre-election political chatter gone, a proposal to rename a park after Prairie Village’s longest-serving mayor sailed through the City Council Monday. By a vote of 10-0, the council approved a measure renaming Meadowlake Park, just west of the intersection of Belinder Ave. and 79th Street, after Monroe Taliaferro, who held [...]
Tweet It’s Community Spirit season, Villagers — and nominations are now open. Each year, Prairie Village recognizes residents, youth, organizations, businesses and business leaders “whose contributions of time and commitment to service make Prairie Village a great place to call home.” These Community Spirit Awards are announced at the annual VillageFest Fourth of July celebration. Nominations [...]
Tweet Prepare for some understatement: The Lady Lancers know their way around the pool. With an impressive menagerie of individual and relay wins, SM East’s varsity girls swim and dive team took home its eighth — that’s right: eighth — consecutive Sunflower League championship at the Free State High School pool last weekend. The Lancers notched [...]
Tweet Roe Avenue will remain the named route for a possible Prairie Village trail — though discussion from the City Council Monday seemed to place the future of a comprehensive trails system in the city on very shaky ground. With a 10-0 vote, the council accepted the recommendation of the Planning Commission to keep Roe as [...]
Tweet Nearly 900 people hit the course around Corinth Elementary Saturday morning for the 9th annual Dragon Dash 5K and 1-Mile Fun Run. A warmer-than-average May morning made that last mile plenty challenging for the novice runners on the course (myself included), but it didn’t slow down 27 year old Joffroi Holcombe, who put in [...]
Tweet It was another collection of fashionable and festive headwear at Tavern in the Village’s annual Kentucky Derby Day Party Saturday, with die-hard horse racing fans — and several more who picked up the sport just for the day — cheering as I’ll Have Another charged down the final leg of Churchill Downs for the victory. [...]
Tweet Take a bow, SM East theatre program. Starlight Theatre last week announced the nominees for the annual Blue Star Awards, which recognize the metro-area’s top high school musical theatre productions and performances, and SM East received three nods. Lily Kaufmann is nominated in the Best Actress in a Lead Role category for her portrayal [...]
Tweet With an 11-1 trouncing over SM South Saturday, the SM East lacrosse team took the first step toward winning the first-ever Lacrosse Association of Kansas City Metro Championship tournament. The Lancers won the Lacrosse Association of Kansas tournament last year, but in the off season, the coaches of a number of metro-area teams got [...]
Tweet With a 4-2 victory over the Olathe Hawks Tuesday, the SM East Lancers secured the number one overall seed in this weekend’s Lacrosse Association of Kansas City Metro Championships. The 15-3 Lancers take on 2-9 SM South at 3 p.m. Saturday on the field at SM East. SM East defeated the Raiders 14-0 when [...]
Tweet You aren’t likely to hear our city — or even our state — mentioned during the broadcast of the Kentucky Derby this Saturday. But in May 1938, Prairie Village, Kansas, was the toast of the horse racing world. Well… not Prairie Village, exactly, since it didn’t officially exist. But saying “unincorporated northeast Johnson County, Kansas” [...]
Tweet We love making homemade pasta, especially this time of year. I would never make fresh pasta with a red sauce or anything with a strong flavor. Instead, I rely on spring vegetables – their perfect lightness doesn’t overwhelm the fresh noodles. We usually make pasta on Sunday afternoons when the whole family is around. [...]
Tweet Breakfasts are about to get bigger at the intersection of of 95th Street and Nall Avenue. The Big Biscuit owner David Offerdahl says his company is moving toward completion of the chain’s fourth restaurant, to be located in south Prairie Village, and hopes to be open before Memorial Day. “Initially, we’d hoped to be [...]
Tweet The weather is getting more and more ideal for kids and bikes. And this time of year, Headstrong for Jake founder Otis Clough knows it’s especially important for to kids know the rules of the road. Headstrong for Jake honors the memory of Fairway teen Jake Clough, who was in a serious bike crash [...]
Tweet Time to do work, Villagers. So bust out your thinking caps and tell me at where is this at?!?!
Tweet Chris Sutton and his K.C. Hopps group’s initial idea for a restaurant in Prairie Village was Mosaic, a Moroccan Mediterranean concept. But after about a year in business, the partners decided a different tack would better meet the needs of the local market. So after a month and a half remodel on the Mosaic [...]
Tweet Being a first time thespian can be nerve wracking. But you don’t need for luck to be a lady on the stage when you’ve been practicing for four months. Tomorrow night the curtain opens on the first performance of Indian Hills Middle School’s production of Guys and Dolls. Performances will run Thursday, Friday and [...]
Tweet In more than 20 years at Belinder Elementary, Principal Karen Faucher has seen a few things change. When she started, the card catalog was students’ best reference tool. Today, she says, the amount of resources kids have at their disposal is mind boggling. “They have all the information they need at the tip of [...]
Tweet Keep it R-1A, said the neighbors. Okay, said the commissioners. With a unanimous vote on Tuesday before a full house at Friendship Hall in Village Presbyterian Church, the Prairie Village Planning Commission approved a resolution officially establishing R-1A zoning uses — which include housing, schools and churches — as the city’s preference for the [...]
Tweet We got an email from PVPost.com reader Joe Houston late last week that we thought might merit a li’l bit of community discussion. Houston wrote in inquiring about the status of the Carroll Plaza fountain at the northwest corner of 75th Street and Mission Road. The fountain was out of commission all last year, [...]
Tweet Maybe you’ve always wanted to do something where you helped people. Maybe you like the idea of catching the bad guys. Maybe you saw a Police Academy marathon on USA a few weeks ago and it really stuck with you. Whatever the reason, you’re thinking about becoming a police officer. (Please note: If it’s [...]
Tweet Prairie Village resident Tim Pickell considers himself an old-fashioned guy who “dislikes being told by others how to best keep myself safe.” But the numbers regarding what he calls an epidemic of dangerous driving habits alarmed the local attorney — who has run for Prairie Village City Council and Kansas governor — enough that [...]
Tweet Kansas City Christian community members and area residents got the art fair season off to a good start at the inaugural Art Event at KCC this past weekend. More than 600 people packed the opening night party Friday, with live music and gourmet eats drawing a crowd. Organizers say they were able to raise [...]
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