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Tweet Whoever’s in charge of the weather dialed up a gem of a night for SM East’s seniors, their families and friends Tuesday as the graduates made their way across the stage to receive their diplomas – and a handshake from Dr. Karl Krawitz, who’s retirement as principal of SM East is just weeks away.
Tweet The state senator and four state representatives for northeast Johnson County head back to Topeka this week for the so-called veto session where a state budget and tax plan will be the main agenda items. Saturday they explained to their constituents the events and bills that often put them in a minority voting ‘no’ [...]
Tweet The Johnson County Board of Commissioners last week took a moment to provide special recognition to Phil Hodgdon, the Consolidated Fire District No. 2 chief who retired last month after 34 years of service. Hodgdon began as a volunteer firefighter in Mission in 1979, and started full-time in 1986. He became Battalion Chief in [...]
Tweet The Mission Family Festival played to a crisp Saturday with a parade, pancake breakfast and plenty of kids activities plus the usual carnival area. The frog-jumping contest only drew one frog – well an amphibian of sort – who was tiny enough to get lost in the grass more than once. Even on a [...]
Tweet And the SM East lacrosse team wasn’t the only one to repeat as champions this weekend. The boys tennis team edged rival Blue Valley North in state 6A play in Wichita Saturday to rescuer the state title, which the Lancers won back in 2012 after a three-year string of titles by Blue Valley North. [...]
Tweet SM East headed into this year’s Lacrosse Association of Kansas City tournament as the four seed, behind the favored one and two seeds Rockhurst and Pembroke Hill. But a well-timed string of outstanding performances propelled the Lancers past those higher-seeded foes, and to two their second LAKC title. Since the LAKC was just founded [...]
Tweet For the third straight year the SM East’s lacrosse team can call themselves champions. With a 10-6 win over Pembroke Friday night, the Lancers finished their season on a six-game win streak and remain the only team to ever hoist the LAKC Trophy. Thanks to five goals by sophomore Nick Bailey and an inspired [...]
Tweet By Chad Taylor Question: How do you choose a Realtor? Aren’t they all pretty much the same? As our business has grown through the years and I have gotten better at asking good questions, I have been shocked by some of the horror stories I hear from clients concerning past real estate transactions. I’m [...]
Tweet The weather postponed the event last week, but SM East cheerleaders on Saturday will hold their annual car wash. The event will run 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in the front driveway of the school. Stop by and get that car gussied up for a good cause.
Tweet And the SM East parade of champions continues… So to recap: We already have women’s swimming league champs, women’s soccer league champs, men’s golf league champs, and a lacrosse team in the title game. Phew! But there’s more! SM East’s speech and drama team took home the top honor in the state at last [...]
Tweet If you are looking for a bargain this weekend, heading to Mission might be your best bet. The city-wide garage sale kicked off yesterday and continues today and tomorrow. More than 50 homes in the city have registered for the city sale and you can find a list of addresses and items that are [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff For this Mother’s Day weekend, I thought I’d share an amazing dish casserole that my husband’s mom, Marilyn Senter, introduced me to. It’s her and my sister-in-law’s go-to dish for new mothers, family gatherings, and dinner parties. I’ve always loved it, and after finally making myself I can see why. The [...]
Tweet A number of Prairie Village and north Leawood residents near the Kansas City, Mo., border Thursday night were awakened by a police search for two suspects in a robbery that took place at 76th and Wornall. Prairie Village Police Capt. Wes Lovett said his department, as well as officers from Leawood and Kansas City, [...]
Tweet Alright, pet detectives: We’ve got a new case, unfortunately. Scout the cat went missing April 30 near Falmouth and 79th Street in Prairie Village. Owner Dawn Mundy says she’s gotten some calls about possible sightings since putting up fliers about the wayward feline, but Scout isn’t home yet. Scout was wearing a pink collar. [...]
Tweet You may have noticed that we don’t do long-form journalism over here at PVPost.com… But the good people over at The Pitch do! And Pitch reporter Steve Vockrodt takes an in-depth look at the controversy surrounding the Mission Chateau proposal in this week’s cover story. Under the headline “The Tutera Group isn’t getting much [...]
Tweet Right-of-way acquisition for the Johnson Drive rehabilitation project between Lamar and Nall has not gone smooth, according to reports this week. The street will be rebuilt from building front to building front, maintaining four lanes of traffic and head-in parking. It turns out that the public easements going down the street are not uniform. [...]
Tweet SM East’s boys lax team is headed back to the Lacrosse Association of Kansas City’s championship game. And they’ll have a familiar date. With a 7-5 victory over top-ranked Rockhurst High School Wednesday, the Lancers earned the right to face Pembroke Hill in the title game Friday – a rematch of the 2012 title game, [...]
Tweet ‘Tis the season for sports titles, and SM East is off to a strong start. The girls’ soccer team earned a Sunflower League title Tuesday. And SM East’s boys golf team on Wednesday wrapped up its sixth straight Sunflower League title with a strong showing at the Lawrence Invitational tourney, hosted at Alvamar. The [...]
Tweet Prairie Village is home to a new, locally-owned bank, which opened this week in Corinth Square. The First National Bank, which has locations in Louisburg and Stillwell, is in the southwest corner of Corinth near 83rd and Somerset in the former Bank of America building. Two other businesses that have some common ownership interests [...]
Tweet The Kansas legislature headed back to Topeka for a veto session Wednesday — and they’ll be there until a 2014 budget is approved. And northeast Johnson County residents have a chance to get firsthand accounts of how budget and tax talks have progressed of late at a public forum scheduled for Saturday at Village [...]
Tweet Sometimes if you just take a moment to look up, you’ll notice something you’ve never seen before:
Tweet By Dr. Tom Cotter Question: Hospital Hill is around the corner. I’m in pain. Should I drop out or push through? Hospital Hill is one of Kansas City’s most popular races. You can’t have a conversation at the water cooler without hearing about someone who is training for the half, 10k or 5k. In [...]
Tweet What do these two photos have in common? Stumped? The answer, of course, is that they are both Twisted Sisters. One is the coffee shop and cafe on Johnson Drive in Mission. The other is the 1970s era heavy metal band – still performing, by the way. Right now they share the name, but [...]
Tweet It took a little help from their SM South rivals, but the SM East girls soccer team on Tuesday clinched the Sunflower League regular season title with a 4-4 tie against Olathe South. The draw was enough for the Lancers to ensure that powerhouse Olathe East — which lost to SM South 2-1 Tuesday — wouldn’t [...]
Tweet If you have been sitting at Hi Hat Coffee at 50th Terrace wondering why all of that dirt is being moved around across the street, it is part of the renovation of the Pembroke Hill School soccer field. The plans submitted through Westwood call for making the soccer field a regulation size by extending [...]
