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Tweet It’s not just Florida that has the giant sink holes that can swallow a semi in one gulp. Well, maybe it wasn’t giant and didn’t entirely take down the entire semi, but a sink hole that appeared in a Mission parking lot Saturday night is big and it did have the tractor end of [...]
Tweet Our trees just can’t catch a break. The intense, fast-moving line of storms that struck northeast Johnson County caused series wind damage, felling more limbs and even entire trees in an area that saw heavy tree damage during the late winter snowstorms. Residents and utility crews on Sunday were in clean up mode, with [...]
Tweet Readers, friends, well-wishers, casual acquaintances: Thank you. Because on Saturday, we celebrated our third birthday — and we couldn’t have made it this far without great readers like you. This past year in particular, we’ve experienced some robust growth that’s allowed us to devote more energy and resources to coverage of all of northeast [...]
Tweet It’s Monday, but that doesn’t mean you have to water the grass today. And that has nothing to do with the weekend rain or the forecast. WaterOne can prove that we like to water on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. They would like to see that spread out a little bit. WaterOne’s suggestion is to [...]
Tweet A Prairie Village police officer on routine patrol Monday morning saved the day when he noticed smoke coming from a Mission Hills home. Officer Josh Fahlgren said he could see and smell the smoke as he drove by the house in the 5800 block of Mission Drive shortly before 8 a.m. today. In less [...]
Tweet They grilled hot dogs, drank soda, tossed a frisbee — and wore empty gun holsters on their hips. More than a dozen gun rights advocates associated with the Johnson County Open Carry group convened for a picnic at Harmon Park Sunday. And while the event resembled any typical summer gathering, attendees were blunt about its [...]
Tweet Steamy air wasn’t the only obstacle facing an intrepid group of Bishop Miege students, parents and friends Saturday. The runners in the inaugural Stag Steeplechase had to crawl under cargo netting and knock out 30 jumping jacks, among other challenges, over the course of the two mile run. Organizer Colette Bernica said the school [...]
Tweet Kansas Governor Sam Brownback came to Overland Park Thursday to sign a tax bill that continues the march toward lowering income taxes in the state, but which also keeps sales taxes higher. It also starts to remove some itemized deductions and lowers certain standard deductions. That tax bill had no support from northeast Johnson [...]
Tweet By Chad Taylor Question: If I have more than one layer of roofing on my home, should I be concerned about resale? The short answer is “yes.” Now for the “why.” If there is one thing that I love about my industry it is that things are constantly changing. And roofing guidelines are no exception [...]
Tweet We like our libraries in northeast Johnson County and the Cedar Roe branch is an important part of the community. That message came through in comments and questions from the crowd Thursday at a town hall meeting on library plans. How to approach the future of the library system – and some of its [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff Jay does a magnificent job with our vegetable garden. Greens, tomatoes, melon, broccoli – each year is better than the last. Then it’s my job to figure out what to do with it. Nothing makes me sadder than seeing something rotting on the vine, or gone to seed because I couldn’t [...]
Tweet Two northeast Johnson County natives are among the young metro area business people honored by Ingram’s magazine “20 in the Twenties” class of 2013. 2003 SM East graduate Blake Miller, 28, is a partner at Think Big Partners, an early-stage entrepreneurial incubator that “brings a Silicon Valley approach to the Midwest through the funding [...]
Tweet SM East’s Chase Hanna may have had an off day at the KSHSAA 6A golf tournament last month. But he was back on track in a big way Thursday at the Kansas Golf Association’s Boys Junior Amateur tournament. Hanna took first place in the 138-golfer field with a three-round score of 210 — six-under [...]
Tweet The Mission ArtWalk kicks off its third year tonight at the corner of Johnson Drive and Dearborn starting at 5 p.m. and running until 9 p.m. Booths will be set up running south on Dearborn and organizers say 20 regional artists will be setting up to display and sell their art at tonight’s event. [...]
Tweet It may be mid-June. But that doesn’t mean it’s too soon to start thinking about fall sports… Where’s this at, fools?
Tweet The Mission pool replacement project is well on its way to approval and a bond sale. The city council’s finance and administration committee agreed to a maximum build cost of slightly more than $4.6 million this week and a bond sale is scheduled to provide the funding. The design/build team has held several public [...]
Tweet The Kansas Legislature managed to pass a budget and tax plan this year, but did them both with no support from northeast Johnson County legislators. Both of the final plans drew “no” votes from Sen. Kay Wolf and State Reps. Barbara Bollier, Melissa Rooker, Stephanie Clayton and Emily Perry. It could be branded the [...]
Tweet For several summers, the Village Shops merchants along Tomahawk Road had come together to host “Third Thursdays” gatherings — bringing in a live music act and opening their doors to the neighborhood for drinks and appetizers. But last summer, with a handful of the spaces along Tomahawk in flux, the merchants decided to put Third [...]
Tweet With the official return of summer weather this week, forecasters at the Prairie Village Post Institute are predicting a rapid spike in the incidence of neighborly good times — and with it, a marked increase in bottled beer and wine consumption. That in mind (and at the suggestion of some of the good people at [...]
Tweet Dozens of local residents, city officials and business leaders braved the first truly hot morning of the summer Wednesday to recognize the official opening of the fully renovated Hen House market at Corinth Square. In an 8 a.m. ribbon cutting ceremony, Ball’s Food Stores executives thanked the community — and their staff — for [...]
Tweet Roeland Park is facing some revenue shortfalls in its 2014 budget and it asked residents to help decide how they want to face the problem: by cutting services, raising revenues or both. Between 30 and 40 Roeland Park residents answered the city’s invitation to sit down and think through solutions to confront the financial [...]
Tweet By Dr. Greg Sweat With temperatures on the rise this week, it sounds like it will finally start to feel like summer. And where is the first place most families head on a hot day? The neighborhood pool. But can taking a swim make you sick? It’s hard to believe that you can get [...]
Tweet Remember those coyote pups that were born in a Mission backyard under a patio slab? Well, how quickly the young ones grow up and move on these days. The pups have left the den and it looks like mom and dad may have moved with them. The neighbors say they have not seen the [...]
Tweet By Chris Heady Apparently social media isn’t just the voice of today’s youth. It’s also their fuel. Last week SM East senior Andrew Treas drove from Kansas City to Washington, D.C., in an electric car he helped build that was powered by what he and an organization called Minddrive call “social fuel”: fuel from [...]
Tweet Cedar Roe Library is back in operation this morning after being closed more than a week from flooding that damaged an electrical panel. The library branch at 5120 Cedar St. in Roeland Park serves northeast Johnson County. Any holds that library users had on materials will be extended another week and library staff said [...]
