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Tweet By Chris Heady Incoming Briarwood third grader Audrey Bethay is heading to Los Angeles to face off against the best in the country and beyond. Again. Next week, Bethay, who is blind, will for the second year in a row head to the National Braille Challenge to compete against other visually impaired students from [...]
Tweet New legal action surrounding Prairie Village’s open carry ban isn’t the only gun-related issue the Prairie Village city council needs to mull over. Though it applied for a guaranteed six month exemption from Kansas HB 2052, the city will have to develop a plan to respond to the new law by Jan. 1, 2014. [...]
Tweet Prairie Village resident Finn Bullers, who has muscular dystrophy and type-1 diabetes, is taking part in the United Spinal Association’s “Roll on Capitol Hill” — a national effort to lobby Congress for laws to improve the lives of the disabled. Bullers, who you may recall had to endure a lapse in skilled-nursing care during [...]
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Speaking of guns… You may have heard that the state legislature stayed in session an extra 10 days — and in doing so spending an additional $400,000 in taxpayer funds — before it could fulfill one of its few mandatory functions: passing a budget. But among the matters the legislature did manage to find [...]
Tweet The ol’ PVPost.com camera is in the shop this week, which has prevented us from capturing some pretty cool bird sightings, I’m afraid. But the wonders of camera phone technology allowed us to capture a shot of an odd (to us at least) li’l fella clinging to our car door the other day. Maybe you see [...]
Tweet The group of gun rights advocates who asked the city of Prairie Village for permission to show up for a picnic at Harmon Park Sunday openly carrying weapons won’t come with guns swinging from their hips after all — but the permit application they filed in May is likely to become the subject of [...]
Tweet By Chris Heady After months of renovation, the Corinth Square Hen House is nearly ready to declare “mission complete.” The interior renovations that began Sept. 20, 2012, will come to a conclusion June 12 when the store has a Grand Opening event for what they consider to be a “state of the art” store. [...]
Tweet The dogs may have come in all shapes and sizes, but the music was purebred blues. Hundreds of dog lovers, blues fans, and dog-loving blues fans enjoyed near-perfect summer weather at Franklin Park Saturday for the third-annual Bark N’ Blues festival. The walkway around the park was again packed with pet-oriented vendors. This year’s [...]
Tweet Four SM East students are lending their talents to the opening show of Theatre in the Park’s 2013 season. Twins Justin and Alec Armer and younger brother Tyler are among the performers in “Children of Eden,” which closed its opening weekend of shows Sunday. The musical will return to Shawnee Mission Park this weekend [...]
Tweet By Chris Heady For many, the sound of an ice cream truck’s music and bell brings back fond childhood memories of cold treats on hot summer nights. But for a vocal group of Prairie Villagers who say the trucks are too loud and come through their neighborhoods too often, that same music provokes annoyance [...]
Tweet When we lived in San Francisco Jay would eat tacos from a food truck nearly every day. (I posted a recipe for simple but flavorful street-style tacos last September). In the years since, my husband has not infrequently mentioned a desire to start up a similar operation here in our neighborhood. Unfortunately for him, we found [...]
Tweet By Chris Heady Though a vote on the Tutera Group’s Mission Chateau proposal won’t come for at least two months, the redevelopment of the Mission Valley site — whatever the final plans may be — will almost certainly mean the loss of practice fields used by several youth sports teams. Since Mission Valley was sold, the [...]
Tweet A’ight, Villagers: Summer ’tis upon us, and that means VillageFest, Prairie Village’s annual Fourth of July celebration, is just around the corner. And the organizers of this year’s event are hoping to see some more nominations for this year’s Community Spirit Awards come into their inboxes. So here’s the deal: Read the nomination guidelines [...]
Tweet Oz the Great and Powerful was a terrible, terrible movie, from what we’ve heard. But that’s not going to stop us for inviting jokes about Kansas and brick roads with this week’s puzzler.
