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Tweet A new set of signage near a fountain that serves as a gathering place for the families who live near Oxford Road and 69th Street is raising eyebrows from some Prairie Village residents. Prairie Village Public Works last week installed two signs next to the fountain reading “WARNING NON TREATED FOUNTAIN NOT FOR PLAYING.” [...]
Tweet SM East sports have been keeping banner makers busy this spring With solid across-the-board performances Friday and Saturday, the Lancers girls swim and dive team earned its third straight state 6A title. Though the Lancers only won one event — the 200Y freestyle relay — they outpaced second place finisher Topeka Washburn by 44 [...]
Tweet A Prairie Village tradition that was in jeopardy of coming to an end has been given new life. The city’s parks and recreation department announced late last week that they’d reached an agreement with former synchronized swimming coach and team member Nancy Morgan to head up the program again this year. As of just [...]
Tweet In September 2010, doctors told David Horner that we would never play contact sports again — that given the severity of his injury, he was lucky to still be functional. Less than two years later, Horner is on his way to play sports at the collegiate level. The recent Kansas City Christian graduate’s ordeal and [...]
Tweet Just a quick reminder for Prairie Village residents who live south of 75th Street that tomorrow is large item pick up day — an event that almost certainly accounts for the increased pickup truck and trailer traffic in your neighborhoods the past day or so. Crews from Deffenbaugh will be out tomorrow, so if you’ve [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff I was never a big fan of spinach growing up. I remember it coming mostly from frozen boxes that were dumped next to some baked white fish. The texture was slimy and the taste bitter. I can still remember the creative methods I used to make it look like I had [...]
Tweet SM East’s graduating class of 2012 couldn’t have asked for a better night to bid farewell to high school. Principal Karl Krawitz handed out diplomas to nearly 400 seniors at SM South stadium Thursday for this year’s commencement ceremonies. Student body president Carolyn Welter gave opening remarks, and senior class president Tom Lynch delivered [...]
Tweet Former Johnson County Sun publisher Steve Rose has spent decades analyzing Johnson County and Kansas politics. But in all that time, he’s never seen a political scenario where so much was at stake as what lies on the horizon today. In fact, Rose says, the coming battles in the state house and at the [...]
Tweet Prairie Village-based venture capitalist Fred Coulson thinks it’s ridiculous that non-coastal American cities has been derided as “flyover country.” So his company, Five Elms Capital, decided to turn that mocking moniker on its head. Tomorrow, the application period closes for the first-ever Flyover 50 contest, honoring the 50 fastest-growing companies in the Midwest. The [...]
Tweet We went exploring the nooks and crannies of Prairie Village and its surroundings for this week’s WTA. Guess away:
Tweet It took him three full sets and a tie-breaker, but Kansas City Christian freshman Johnny Goodwin wound up with a pretty special Mother’s Day gift for his mom Kristin last Saturday. But knocking off Eduardo Martelli, an Italian exchange student playing for Sterling High School, in the state 1A-3A tennis tournament, he made Kristin [...]
Tweet Local resident, retired principal and former school board candidate Bart Altenbernd grew up on a farm near Lawrence in the 1960s. And as his own son was growing up Altenbernd often used anecdotes from his own childhood as bedtime stories. From a haunted house in Eudora to an encounter with a mad mother pig, [...]
Tweet The Lancers are back on top of Kansas high school tennis. After finishing second place to Blue Valley North in the 2011 state 6A tournament, SM East won 10 of 11 matches in the opening round of last weekend’s championships in Wichita, setting them on the path that brings the title trophy back to [...]
Tweet It’s every journalist’s worst nightmare: the reporter has become the story. So you can imagine the veritable crisis center that became of the Prairie Village Post newsroom when the following tidbit came across our desk last week: Jamie and Marilyn Senter’s 80th Street abode has been named “Home of the Season” by the Corinth [...]
Tweet Prairie Village residents, be aware: the traffic division of the city’s police department will be out in full force for a week starting next Monday, May 21. More than 150 agencies are participating in the annual Kansas Click It or Ticket traffic enforcement campaign. Prairie Village officers will be “aggressively enforcing Kansas occupant restraint [...]
Tweet Former Prairie Village Mayor Sue Weltner took a ceremonial first trip down the slide at the park named in her honor Saturday during a rededication ceremony after a major renovation. The $335,000 revamp of the park at State Line Road and 79th Street began last August, when construction crews also started rerouting Cambridge Street [...]
Tweet Patrons at the First Fridays gathering in the Crossroads district earlier this month may have noticed a young energy to the art displayed at Centric Projects. Owners Courntey Kounkel, Steve Swanson and Richard Wetzel opened up their space to host a real-life art show for 40 young art students from Prairie and Corinth. With [...]
Tweet The latest statistics on city tax rates and indebtedness published by the Kansas League of Municipalities show Prairie Village compares favorably to its peer cities throughout the state. Of the 27 cities categorized as “Cities of the First Class,” Prairie Village has the fifth lowest amount of bond debt with $10,852,854. That’s compared to [...]
Tweet Mission Hills attorney Steve Gorny has made something of a side career out of raising money for good causes by tackling double-take inducing running feats. In 2006, he ran a marathon a month to raise money for the The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. In 2009, he ran 100 miles in 24 hours and 26 [...]
Tweet Prairie Village is losing a resident who has become one of the Kansas City area’s most accomplished art administrators. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art announced earlier this month that Margi Conrads, its American Art Curator, has accepted a position as the Deputy Director of Art and Research at the Amon Carter Museum of American [...]
Tweet Some good news for local shoppers saddened by the closings last year of design shops Curious Sofa and Stoney Broke, Ltd.: A popular design store is relocating from the Plaza to The Village Shops. Create: Modern Home Decor owner Sherry George says she’s aiming to open for business in the space next to Minsky’s [...]
Tweet With a two-goal fourth quarter lead gone and momentum swinging sharply in Pembroke Hill’s favor, SM East lacrosse coach Chris Kliewer turned to the player whose offensive prowess had propelled the Lancers into the first-ever Lacrosse Association of Kansas City championship game. With his finger pointed and fire in his eyes, Kliewer looked at [...]
Tweet Did anyone else ever sing/scream that to their mom when they were younger? It was somewhat of a mantra in our house, although now I’m not sure why, and whether or not it did indeed result in any pancakes. In any case, I wanted to share this fabulous recipe today that I got from [...]
Tweet Prairie Village Mayor Ron Shaffer has released his committee appointments for the following year, placing the newly elected city council members and replacing those members who were unseated in April’s elections. The new Parks and Recreation Committee Chair is councilwoman Laura Wassmer, who served as vice-chair for long-time chair Diana Ewy Sharp, who lost [...]
Tweet SM East this morning was placed on “lockdown” after word of a possible weapon threat reached school administrators. The police investigated the threat and cleared the lockdown just over an hour after it was implemented. They found a student with a small, plastic orange gun, and determined there was no threat to student or [...]
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