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Archives for March, 2013
Tweet Fairway residents in at least two wards have active contests for city council seats in next week’s Spring election, with some seats being uncontested. Mayor Jerry Wiley is also running for a second term, but is unopposed and David Watkins is unopposed for the third ward council seat. In the first ward, both Melanie [...]
Tweet If you are planning to take in the Bunny Eggstravaganza in Mission this Saturday, make sure you head to Sylvester Powell Community Center and not Broadmoor Park as originally scheduled. Because of the snow melt and predicted rain the end of the week, Broadmoor is expected to be muddy so the event is being [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff Last year during our church’s Easter service, the pastor asked the children what the day was about. Naturally, most of the kids shouted, “candy!”. It’s hard to argue with that enthusiasm. In my opinion, Easter candy is the most fun of all the seasons. Growing up, we didn’t get much in [...]
Tweet The Northeast Johnson County Chamber of Commerce has added a director of business development to its staff. Stoney Bogan, a former Chamber board member and board chair, has accepted the position. Bogan was board chairman in 2007, served on multiple Chamber committees and is a 2004 Leadership Northeast graduate. He has 18 years of [...]
Tweet Service has become a Spring Break tradition at Bishop Miege High School — so much so that the school didn’t have enough space to accommodate all the students who wanted to participate in its annual mission trips last week. Since the mid-1990s, Miege has organized trips for students to spend their breaks volunteering in underserved [...]
Tweet Thalia House may be pulling up its stakes in northeast Johnson County, but local residents interested in the facility’s approach to eating disorders treatment can learn more tonight during a special broadcast of KCPT’s The Local Show. The episode will feature an inside look at Thalia House and its residents as they prepare to [...]
Tweet Looks like the Tutera Group’s revised plans for a proposed senior living development on the grounds of Mission Valley Middle School are set to go before the Prairie Village Planning Commission at last. The city announced today that it has set a open Planning Commission work session on the proposal, though the session won’t [...]
Tweet A new season is dawning, and to help the spring spirit bloom we’re going to spice up this week’s puzzler with a prize: Be the first to answer correctly ON THE SITE (not the Facebook page), and you’ll win four tickets to any showing of this weekend’s Peter Cottontail III at the Kauffman Center [...]
Tweet Next Tuesday is Spring election day in Johnson County and, depending on where you live, you can have a few choices to make or almost no choices to make on the ballot. Here is an overview of the ballot: Shawnee Mission School District Everyone in northeast Johnson County has a decision to make for [...]
Tweet Miami County District Attorney Elizabeth Sweeney-Reeder confirmed Wednesday that her office is in the process of reviewing the Sheriff’s Department’s accident and offense reports related to the Nov. 25 ATV crash that killed SM East senior Tyler Rathbun. Sweeney-Reeder said her office was unlikely to make a decision about how to proceed with the [...]
Tweet Dear God above is this weather awful. Just awful awful awful. Awful. So if you, like me, need a reminder that spring weather is just around the corner — it is, right? — look to the good people at the city of Prairie Village, who open registration for summer (that’s right, SUMMER) programs April 1: Pool [...]
Tweet Human resources will be the topic of the next business education series seminar sponsored by the Northeast Johnson County Chamber of Commerce on April 9. HR professional Belinda Waggoner, president and founder of HR Haven in Overland Park will be the presenter. The seminar is designed for “those looking to hire or those looking [...]
Tweet So, maybe you weren’t able to make it to Orlando to watch the Lancer Dancers win the National Dance Alliance jazz championship earlier this month…but you’ll have the opportunity to see this year’s seniors show off their title-winning routines right here in northeast Johnson County early next month. The Lancer Dancers will have their [...]
Tweet The Johnson Fund, which will honor retiring Shawnee Mission Superintendent Dr. Gene Johnson, will provide all-day kindergarten scholarships in the school district. The new fund was announced by the Shawnee Mission Education Foundation, which will administer the fund. Gifts to the fund will help families “who can’t afford tuition and bridge the gap for [...]
Tweet Homeowners in the Normandy Square Homes Association are taking part in a pilot project that could become a model for turning food waste into compost throughout the area. Starting this month, 73 homes in the homes association received a separate waste container for depositing food scraps. The food scraps bin is collected on normal [...]
Tweet The Miami County Sheriff’s Department on Monday forwarded to the District Attorney’s office its accident and offense reports regarding the rural ATV crash that killed SM East senior Tyler Rathbun Nov. 25. To protect the minors named in the reports, the Sheriff’s Department has only released the first four pages of the accident report [...]
Tweet Two Mission Hills residents have pleaded guilty to federal health care fraud and false tax return charges, and are facing prison time and probation as a result. On Saturday, Carol Ann Ryser, 76, and Michael Earl Ryser, 68, closed their Health Centers of America-Kansas City medical clinic as part of a plea deal with [...]
Tweet Dineplex International’s Frank Rash announced last week that the company has hired Erik Hess to be the general manager of the first-ever STANDEES restaurant and theatre concept, which is scheduled to open at the Village Shops in Prairie Village in late May. Hess has experience as a marketing executive for Sysco Corp., where he [...]
Tweet St. Patrick’s Day may be behind us, but the Irish spirit is as strong as ever in a group of young northeast Johnson Countians who are making their debut at the World Irish Dancing Championships today in Boston, Mass. The team of eight 8-12 year olds train together at the O’Riada-McCarty-Manning Academy of Irish [...]
Tweet Library service for northeast Johnson County could undergo radical changes over the next five years, according to the Johnson County Library Capital Improvement Plan approved by the board. Both the Corinth Library on Mission Road in Prairie Village and the Cedar/Roe Library in Roeland Park are scheduled to be replaced under the current plan. [...]
Tweet In an effort to keep our readers better informed about the state government actions that impact our communities, we are featuring regular update columns from northeast Johnson County’s elected officials in the legislature: Rep. Barbara Bollier, Rep. Stephanie Clayton, Rep. Melissa Rooker and Sen. Kay Wolf. Check back on Mondays to find out what’s [...]
Tweet Question: How do I know how much my home is worth? Can Zillow, Trulia, or the county tax assessment give me an idea of value? I have answered this question numerous times over the last few weeks. As the real estate market continues to heat up, it seems that sellers fear underpricing their home and buyers [...]
Tweet SM East served as the subject of a lengthy piece on NPR’s Talk of the Nation Friday during which national education reporter Claudio Sanchez interviewed school resource officer Joel Porter and principal Karl Krawitz about the role of officers in schools and whether teachers and staff should have access to firearms. Porter said after [...]
Tweet Hard as it may be to believe with half a foot of snow on the ground, it is spring. And that means the Easter bunny is on his way — though you probably won’t be able to see him hopping around in the snow since his coat is white. But I digress. The Paul [...]
Tweet Northeast Johnson County families returning home from spring break trips Saturday were quickly reminded of the kind of weather they’d been so eager to escape. Winter Storm Virgil (or, perhaps more accurately, “Wintry Storm Virgil,” seeing as how it is officially spring…) swept through the area this weekend dropping a fresh batch of snow [...]
