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Archives for February, 2013
Tweet The massive volume of snow that piled up over the course of a few short hours Thursday morning wreaked havoc on standard street-clearing strategies, preventing plows from cleaning streets before a thick layer of the white stuff had made travel treacherous. And though the snow has stopped falling, road and rescue crews have a [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff Like most of Prairie Village, we’ve been snowed in. I’ve been relishing making snowmen and having indoor picnics – sometimes I can even get my daughters to join me. The truth is, it’s been a bit painful to watch how difficult it is for them to play in the snow. I [...]
Tweet The numbers couldn’t match up more evenly for the SM East and SM South basketball teams. They’ve squared off a total 104 times. Each team has 52 wins. They’ve played all but one game in their Sunflower League schedule this season. Each team is 10-0 in league play. But after tonight, the stalemate will [...]
Tweet The council chambers were standing room only Wednesday night with many people attending for a resolution to replace the pool at Andersen Park. The council approved the resolution to move ahead with the pool project and hired the firm of Prosser Wilbert, Inc. for both design and build services for the pool. In its [...]
Tweet Dirt will be moving at the Mission Gateway project by May and maybe as early as April, Gateway developer Tom Valenti told the Mission City Council Wednesday night. “We are making progress,” Valenti said. “We just need the last junior box anchor. I don’t want to give (tenant) updates until we get another signed [...]
Tweet Thursday’s powerful snowstorm may have stymied normal workweek routines, but it brought northeast Johnson County neighbors together in the process. By the time the first and most substantial wave of the storm had passed, parts of the area were buried under nearly a foot of snow. When the storm broke for a few hours [...]
Tweet We’ll be updating this post with new information about Thursday’s snowstorm as it comes in, including cancelations, closures and reschedulings as well as photos from around the area. If you have information or photos about the storm you want to share, email us at stories [at] pvpost.com.
Tweet “Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.” Wordsworth said that. He said that about walls. I have no idea what it means — sounds kind of like he doesn’t like graffiti, maybe? — but this is a weekly feature where we’re posting a picture of a local wall, so I thought it [...]
Tweet SM East grads making their college athletic debuts as freshman have had a good few weeks. Earlier this month, 2012 graduate and current Dartmouth College sprinter Toni Aguiar broke her own personal record in the 60-meter dash with a preliminary heat time of 7.97 seconds. Her previous best was 8.11. “After my race I [...]
Tweet Prairie Village-area Sen. Kay Wolf was among those to vote against a constitutional amendment that the state senate passed 27-13 Wednesday that would bar courts for making rulings impacting how state schools are funded. The bill call in response to the ruling by a three-judge panel last month, which deemed the legislature had been [...]
Tweet Trash pickup for Deffenbaugh customers is the latest casualty from the snow storm bearing down on the metro area. Both Prairie Village and Mission, who contract with Deffenbaugh, sent out notices to their residents late Wednesday afternoon advising that Deffenbaugh has suspended residential trash pickup on Thursday. The Thursday and Friday routes will be [...]
Tweet Fairway’s request that residents do not park on the street has moved from “suggested” to “mandatory”: Based on the weather forecast, the anticipated beginning time of the snow storm, and the need to be ready should conditions change; the City of Fairway will declare a Traffic Emergency under Section 14-217 of the City Code [...]
Tweet Not a flake has fallen, but preparations for Thursday’s predicted snowstorm are getting really serious. Prairie Village sent out an alert Wednesday afternoon requesting that residents park in driveways if possible to leave the roads clear for snow removal crews: The City is requesting residents to move all vehicles from the roadways as soon [...]
Tweet People scheduled to appear in Prairie Village Municipal Court Thursday will get a reprieve on account of the weather. The court administrator sent out the following notice Wednesday morning: Prairie Village Municipal Court scheduled for Thursday, February 21, 2013 has been canceled due to the impending winter weather. All cases are re-scheduled for Thursday, [...]
Tweet The immense explosion and fire that rocked the area west of the Plaza Tuesday night and destroyed JJ’s Restaurant brought first-hand accounts from a few of our readers. Joni Cobb said she was two blocks away from the site when she heard and felt the blast and saw the intense black smoke rising from [...]
Tweet Prairie Village residents will have to wait a bit longer to get a look at the Tutera Group’s revised plans for a senior living community proposed for the Mission Valley Middle School site. In anticipation of the heavy snowfall expected throughout the day tomorrow, the developer has canceled the community meeting scheduled for Thursday, [...]
Tweet With the biggest snowstorm in two years bearing down on the Kansas City area, northeast Johnson County snow removal crews are preparing for as much as 24 hours of straight snowfall. Acting Prairie Village Public Works Director Keith Bredehoeft said the first plow crews will arrive at 7 p.m. Wednesday, and the department will [...]
Tweet Get ready for SM East basketball fandamonium this Friday. Because with a 56-33 lashing of Lawrence Free State on the road Tuesday, SM East’s 17-1 boys basketball team ensured its regular season-ending game at home Friday against 18-0 SM South will be about as big as they come. And the good news for Lancer [...]
Tweet Story restaurant proprietor Carl Thorne-Thomsen got his first job in the business when the owner of a gourmet grocer in Wichita hired him to help run her new sandwich counter. “I didn’t have any real experience at all,” he said. “But we’d gotten to know each other when I went in to her store [...]
Tweet Village Shops-area park enthusiasts’ long, motionless nightmare is over. After months of its equipment sitting in disrepair, Porter Park got a new crossbar and swing last week, ending a drought that left park patrons up in the air. Prairie Village Public Works reported last summer that the swings at Porter Park were damaged by [...]
Tweet A new Starbucks Coffee with a drive-thru window is now open for business at Ranchmart South. Construction on the facility began in early fall 2012 in the parking lot outside the Ranchmart Ace Hardware. For now, at least, it’s the only announced Starbucks drive-thru in the area…
Tweet The SM East Athletics Department had a big weekend here in northeast Kansas with impressive showings from the boys basketball team, wrestling team and boys swim and dive team — but Lancer athletes were making waves across the country as well. Mission Hill native Marston Fries, a 2012 SM East graduate in her first year [...]
Tweet A thin slice of land owned by the City of Westwood along State Line Road will be sold to an adjacent property owner who wants to build a new house in a transaction that apparently is a win for both sides. The piece of land the city agreed to sell for $1,000 is too [...]
Tweet Nearly a month after it last presented plans for the redevelopment of Mission Valley Middle School to neighborhood homeowners, the site’s owners are prepared to unveil a tweaked design intended to address some of the more common concerns expressed by the public. The Tutera Group will be holding a city-wide meeting to present its [...]
Tweet What are seen as attacks on teachers unions in the Kansas Legislature received little support from northeast Johnson County residents or their state representative this weekend. Considering the weather, a sizable group of 25th District constituents showed up Saturday morning for state Rep. Melissa Rooker’s town hall meeting at Sylvester Powell Community Center. More [...]
