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Tweet Belinder Elementary students packed the pavement Friday for the school’s 10th annual Belinder Walkathon. The event raises money to support the school and focuses on exercise and health while giving students a sense of accomplishment for helping out. Sporting KC forward Teal Bunbury (sidelined with an injured knee) added a celebrity flair and was [...]
Tweet Hey, Villagers, let me ask you something: Do you ever feel the need to just rear back and punch something? Well, you’re in luck! Four fitness and martial arts pros have recently opened up a new martial arts training center in Prairie Village. Welcome Mat Elite, in the Somerset Plaza shopping strip at 90th [...]
Tweet It’s not that the news was a big surprise to Prairie Village resident Jim Miksch. His father had battled the disease himself, after all. But there’s simply no avoiding just how jarring it can be to hear the word “cancer” coming out of your doctor’s mouth can have. “My father had prostate cancer, so [...]
Tweet Nearly 900 people hit the course around Corinth Elementary Saturday morning for the 9th annual Dragon Dash 5K and 1-Mile Fun Run. A warmer-than-average May morning made that last mile plenty challenging for the novice runners on the course (myself included), but it didn’t slow down 27 year old Joffroi Holcombe, who put in [...]
Tweet A reader sent us a question about the new eight-foot paved trail along Brush Creek on Tomahawk Road from Porter Park to 71st Street that we’re guessing several Villagers are wondering about: “Do you know why the sidewalk does not continue one block more so it would be a perfect stroll from the park [...]
Tweet A group of hardy Villagers and other locals are heading out this evening for the second annual Prairie Village Christmas lights run. The group will meet at Johnny’s in Corinth Square around 6:15 p.m. and hit the streets at 6:30 p.m. They plan on knocking off around five miles at a conversational pace along [...]
Tweet Mayor Rick Boeshaar told the Mission Hills city council Monday that he’d received a wave of negative reaction to his committee’s work exploring to possibility of building new jogging trails — but that he remained convinced most of the city’s residents would appreciate the new amenity. The general tenor of the complaints, Boeshaar said, [...]
Tweet The ING New York City Marathon hit the streets of the Big Apple last weekend, and at least a couple of Prairie Village-area residents were there for the punishment. Local attorney Patrick Daly was among them, and managed to capture some great footage of the race in action as well as shots of the [...]
Tweet Local exercisers who like to enjoy Mission Hills’ beauty during walks and runs may have safer paths to do so in the near future. Mayor Rick Boeshaar announced in the city’s tri-annual newsletter that he is forming an Ad Hoc committee to study adding new walking paths throughout the city. Presently, some of the [...]
Tweet It was a diamond day for a distance run Saturday morning, as the dozens of Prairie Village, Fairway and Mission Hills residents who completed the Waddell & Reed Kansas City Marathon and Half Marathon can attest. And while it’s an accomplishment just to cross the finish line, we thought it was worthwhile to give [...]
Tweet Prairie Village ultramarathoner Danny Miller was leading the 4:20 pace group at this morning’s Kansas City Marathon. If you missed the race — or weren’t ready for a big-distance affair yet, he’s given us some more good suggestions for local routes, this time with Corinth Square as a starting point. And if you missed Danny’s [...]
Tweet Friend-of-the-site and indefatiguable ultramarathoner Danny Miller reached out to us the other day. And this is what he said: “The weather is nice. A lot of people are out running. And a lot of people ask me for suggestions about good routes in the Prairie Village area. What if I shared some of my [...]
