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Tweet Fairway wasn’t the only local community getting an early start on Halloweening this weekend. The Prairie Hills Homes Association put on its first-ever Haunt in Windsor Park on Sunday, with approximately 50 residents gathering to decorate the park’s trails with lit jack-o-lanterns. Residents then cast votes for their favorite pumpkin, with pumpkin of the [...]
Tweet Falling leaves and pleasant temperatures provided the perfect backdrop for the second annual Prairie Village Homes Association Family Fall Festival on Sunday. The homes association moved this year’s event from the Prairie Village Community Center near City Hall to Porter Park, where attendees enjoyed food, a caricature artist and — of course – a [...]
Tweet Neighbors in the Countryside East Homes Association gathered for the annual ice cream social Sunday evening at Langworthy Island at Hodges and 64th Terrace. The event has been a decades-long ritual for the nearly 300 homes that lie primarily between Nall and Roe and 63rd and 67th Streets. The draw for children, besides the [...]
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 In the down economic environment, many people would view construction of new houses in the area as a good thing. But a teardown-rebuild project on 72nd Terrace in Prairie Village has some of its neighbors grumbling. The new house going up between Roe Avenue and Tomahawk Road is considerably taller than those on the [...]
Tweet Jerry Marquis’s neighbors have a tough act to live up to. The retired Kansas Gas Service employee loves working in his yard, and over time has acquired a whole shed full of pro-caliber equipment to help him along. Several times a week he’ll spend a couple hours out raking, blowing and bagging, so that [...]
Tweet Around 100 neighbors gathered outside the Prairie Village Community Center Sunday afternoon for the Prairie Village Homes Association’s inaugural Family Fall Festival. Eric the Magician entertained with balloon art: Docents from the Kansas City Zoo equally delighted and terrified kids with bats, lizards, cockroaches and snakes: And families worked together to prepare for Halloween [...]
Tweet The Corinth Hills Homes Associations’ annual Picnic and Pool Party brought a big crowd out to Harmon Park Friday. Jay Knox, who served as the association’s president for nearly 10 years before stepping down a couple years ago, said the event was founded as a way to encourage neighbors young and old to get [...]
Tweet Looking for slightly stained baby items? Maybe a collection of National Geographic magazines from the 1980s? How about a super hi-fi cassette player? There’s a good chance you’ll find all that and more this weekend around Corinth Hills. The Corinth Hills Homes Association has organized its annual garage sale weekend, when several local homeowners [...]
Tweet This summer, Mayor Ron Shaffer is beseeching residents to ask not what Prairie Village can do for them, but what they can do for Prairie Village. His suggestion? Hang out more with your neighbors. In his column in the city’s newsletter, Shaffer writes that he “challenge(s) Prairie Village residents to make the most of [...]
Tweet Debate over the issue was long, and its presence on the agenda controversial, but with a 7-5 vote on Monday night the Prairie Village city council took the first step toward establishing a test location for an “overlay district” that would help bring legal clarification to home association design standards that have been deemed [...]
