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Tweet Usually around this time of year, the house at 7611 Falmouth is hard to miss. Even during the day, the dozens of figurines and lights that make up Mike Babick’s nationally known Christmas display stick out from his house with bright colors. But this year is different. Permanent floodlights installed to illuminate the animated [...]
Tweet Prairie Village’s new special event permit ordinance may have chilled Mike Babick’s plans to put on his annual display, but organizers of another of the city’s favorite Christmas traditions have received official approval to move ahead. Prairie Village police this week approved a special event permit for the Candy Cane Lane display that homeowners [...]
Tweet Mike Babick would usually be out tinkering in his garage this time of year, cleaning off the animatronic elves and animals that light up Santa’s Workshop in his annual Christmas display. But this October, he’s refinishing some antiques out back instead. And he doesn’t have any plans to work on his Christmas display. Any [...]
Tweet In coverage sure to promote a thoughtful, measured debate about the need to balance individual rights with those of one’s neighbors and community safety, the Prairie Village City Council’s recent passage of an ordinance that would require Mike Babick to get a permit for his annual Christmas display has made it onto the homepage [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village City Council on Monday passed a measure that will require all residents operating “special events” — including popular holiday lighting displays — to get a permit from the city and pay any costs incurred by the city’s police to go “above and beyond” their normal duties to ensure public safety. By a vote [...]
Tweet Prairie Village holiday lighting luminary Mike Babick may have a fight on his hands if he wants to keep operating his popular display in the same manner in which it’s been run the past several years. The Prairie Village City Council on Monday directed city staff to draft a new ordinance that would regulate [...]
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 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 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 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 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 The Christmas frogs have stopped clapping. The North Pole Express has stopped rolling. And Santa has stopped peaking out of his ornate window. Mike Babick’s Christmas display went dark Sunday after six weeks of operation, marking the end of the holiday season. Babick said he’s in the process of dismantling the intricate display now, [...]
Tweet Opening night at Mike Babick’s Falmouth Street Christmas display. Kansas City-based videographer and photographer Austin Walsh worked with partners Dustin Shirer and Glendon Scott on a feature about Mike Babick’s Falmouth Street Christmas display. If you haven’t seen the display for yourself, this video capture the experience well: BELIEVE from Austin Walsh on Vimeo.
Tweet Prairie Village police made a concerted effort this fall to work with Mike Babick’s Falmouth Street neighbors on minimizing the inconvenience they feel from heavy traffic around his popular Christmas display. Trouble is, the city’s measures don’t seem to have had much impact on a number of the visitors. During a visit to Falmouth [...]
Tweet It’s clear Mike Babick’s popular Christmas display brings cheer to people throughout the Kansas City area. Less clear, however, is what, if anything, the city should do to help alleviate the headaches it’s causing for some of his neighbors. The Prairie Village city council on Monday held a lengthy discussion over how the city [...]
Tweet If you can’t resist the temptation to park right out in front of Mike Babick’s Christmas lights display, don’t be surprised if you get an early present from the police department: a ticket. Capt. Tim Schwarzkopf told the Prairie Village city council Monday that the department had seen a number of people violating the [...]
