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Tweet Assistant City Administrator Dennis Ensligner on Monday told the Prairie Village City Council that the city had received word from Falmouth Street resident Mike Babick’s attorney that Babick would be contesting the citation he the city issued in January over code violations related to his annual Christmas display. Enslinger said the attorney, Frank Gilman, [...]
Tweet Happy MLK, Jr. Day, everyone. We’ll be back tomorrow with fresh posts.
Tweet Prairie Village resident Tim Dorr and the city of Prairie Village’s collaboration to move Dorr’s synchronized holiday music and lights display onto municipal ground appears to have paid off not just for holiday lights enthusiasts, but for two local non-profits as well. Dorr and the city announced last week that the display had attracted [...]
Tweet The holiday season may have been officially over for a few days now, but a behind-the-scenes back-and-forth between the city of Prairie Village and Falmouth Street decorating stalwart Mike Babick came to a head Tuesday. After having communicated with Babick since November about potential code violations posed by a new structure he built for [...]
Tweet Complaints about Mike Babick’s increasingly popular Falmouth Street lights display may have tapered off somewhat this year — but that doesn’t mean the neighbors who face the seasonal increases in traffic and noise got to enjoy any silent nights. Of particular offense to some was the steady stream of limos and busses that made their [...]
Tweet Vandalism in general is lame. But vandalism targeting the unique artistic expression that is exterior holiday-oriented illumination is just sickening. A reader who lives in Corinth Meadows sent along the above photo of a string of Christmas lights that had been unceremoniously clipped, rendering his entire setup dark. And this wasn’t an over-the-top, Griswold-esque [...]
Tweet The gifts have been unwrapped. The tureen full of egg nog has been drained. The plate of Santa’s cookies has been rendered but a pile of green and red crumbs. Christmas is officially behind us. So how are you spending this day after?
Tweet Just a brief note this morning wishing all of you Villagers, Fairway-ians and Mission Hillpeople a very merry Christmas. We’ll be back tomorrow with the gift of fresh posts. Now, present time!
Tweet We know that limousines are supposed to project a certain status for their riders. But what is it with the jerky behavior of limousines that have been circling around Prairie Village’s Christmas lights hot-spots? They seem to rub just about everyone the wrong way. The Star’s Barb Shelly wrote earlier this week about how [...]
Tweet I think it’s fair to say we’re officially on the map, Villagers. Santa Claus, the ancient bearer of Christmas gifts sometimes referred to as Old Saint Nick and Kris Kringle, made an unprecedented second public appearance in Prairie Village Saturday. And this is a busy man, okay? I saw him in an iPhone commercial [...]
Tweet Fifteen Prairie Village police officers took some time yesterday to make the holidays a little happier for seven area kids. As part of the department’s inaugural “Shop With a Cop” program, the officers helped seven kids pick out presents for their families — and themselves — at the Target in Mission. The Prairie Village Municipal [...]
Tweet Last Christmas season, the Braly family suffered a disheartening loss: Someone stole the Cindy Lou Who cutout that had been part of their Whoville display on Candy Cane Lane (otherwise known as the 7900 block of Outlook) for a dozen years. Even after Christmas passed, the family held out hope that the metaphorical Grinch [...]
Tweet Alright, kids: Break out those Big Chief tablets and your Crayolas (or your iPad…whatever is you all write on these days), ‘cause you’ve only got 12 hours to polish off those Christmas lists for Santa. The elf – who has been previously described as right, jolly and old – will be at Corinth Square [...]
Tweet Unfortunately, some technical difficulties prevented us from posting information yesterday about the opening night of Prairie Village’s most trafficked holiday lights displays. But better a day late than never, we suppose. Tim Dorr’s popular choreographed lights and music display has moved from his Fontana Street home to the grounds of the Prairie Village pool. [...]
Tweet If you were hoping Mike Babick and his Falmouth Street neighbors would be coming together in the spirit of the season and singing carols to one another in the weeks leading up to Christmas, we’ve got some disappointing news. The city of Prairie Village has received formal complaints from Falmouth Street residents regarding a [...]
Tweet We thought the cuteness saturation levels at last year’s Village Shops trick-or-treating approached dangerous levels. But this year the dial went even higher, with things getting about as close to cuteness overload as possible without causing a full on meltdown. Let’s start with the animals, from this forlorn shark…: …to this befuddled caterpillar: This [...]
Tweet Nearly 400 kids and parents came out for the seventh annual Trail of Tricks and Treats Halloween celebration at Fairway’s Peterson Park Sunday night. Costumed kids got to decorate pumpkins, play games, and enjoy food and drinks. As you might imagine, there were some pretty creative costumes. Among them, this Missouri River noodler: And [...]
Tweet (*Whistling) Doo do doo, do doo dobee do dooo… AHHHH! Oh, dear Lord, you scared me! I didn’t see you come in. I guess I’m just a little skittish this morning, what with it being Halloween and all. It’s so spooky out lately. I guess part of it is that we spent a couple [...]
Tweet Hillcrest Covenant Church got Halloween celebrations off to an early start with a pumpkin carving party at Franklin Park —- a party whose centerpiece activity was made markedly difficult by the fact that the shelter lights didn’t come on after dusk, forcing parents to use their cell phones as flashlights: For other area Halloween [...]
Tweet At least one of Prairie Village’s hot-button holiday lighting displays has found a happy home this year. The city has worked out an agreement to allow Fontana Street resident Tim Dorr to move his popular synchronized music and holiday lights display onto city grounds. After last year’s holiday season, Dorr announced that he would [...]
Tweet Frosty relations on Falmouth Street over Mike Babick’s annual Christmas display have surfaced in the dead of summer. Hoping to stem the controversy before this year’s Christmas season, the council had regulation of holiday displays on its Monday council agenda, and opened the floor to members of the audience for comment. Babick was the [...]
Tweet Prairie Village Police dispatch lines were practically exploding with calls about illegal fireworks over the Fourth of July weekend. Well. Maybe not exploding, exactly. But Police Chief Wes Jordan said the department has dealt with an increasing number of calls regarding fireworks in recent years — and they’ve become enough of an issue that [...]
Tweet USA! USA! Hey, Village People: What will you be doing to recognize Independence Day?
Tweet Last year’s budget struggles at Fairway, Roeland Park and Westwood city halls have taken this year’s Fourth of July fireworks display as a casualty. Traditionally, the three cities each chipped in $2,000 (with another $1,000 coming from either Westwood Hills or Mission Woods) for a fireworks display in north Johnson County. But major financial [...]
Tweet Happy Memorial Day, everyone. We’ll be back tomorrow with fresh posts.
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