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Tweet Readers, friends, well-wishers, casual acquaintances: Thank you. Because on Saturday, we celebrated our third birthday — and we couldn’t have made it this far without great readers like you. This past year in particular, we’ve experienced some robust growth that’s allowed us to devote more energy and resources to coverage of all of northeast [...]
Tweet Happy Memorial Day, everyone. On behalf of the staff over here at PVPost.com, we want to share our sincerest thanks with the men and women currently enlisted in our armed forces, and hope everyone can take a moment today to remember those who gave their lives in service to our country. Enjoy the day. [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village Post you’ve grown to know and love is going away… so we can replace it with a Prairie Village Post you’ll grow to know and love even more! Hurrah! So, here’s the deal: After two and a half years, we started to think that the site design I slapped together over [...]
Tweet Perhaps it’s a product of our recent family condition, but we’ve been thinking that a part of traditional community newspapers that it would probably be fun to recreate here are the birth announcements. And we figured what better way to kick a birth announcement feature off than with one of our own. So without [...]
Tweet Friends, Villagers, lend us your ears. Because it’s birthday party time up in here, ya’ll! Tha’s right: two years ago today at precisely 12:06 p.m. we published our first story. Around 1,800 stories later, we feel confident reporting that we’ve become the most turned-to resource for local news and information. And traffic continues to [...]
Tweet Happy New Year, everyone! Sincere apologies to any of you who may have tried to get onto the site yesterday. We were exorcising some server demons in the hopes that people will have smoother, faster access to the site in 2012. We’re planning on taking today and tomorrow mostly off (unless, of course, there’s [...]
Tweet I know the last 24 hours must have been tough for you all. “What will the top two stories of the year be?!?!?,” I’m sure you were asking, exasperated, pulling out hair and gnashing teeth in anxious anticipation. Well sir, wait no more. Our number two story of the year was… #2 Newsweek names [...]
Tweet Well, Village People, it’s time to dust off that bottle of sparkling white grape juice you’ve been saving all year, kick back in your favorite recliner, and take a trip down memory lane with us as we recap the top five PVPost.com stories of 2011…at least based on pageviews. Indeed, a review of site [...]
Tweet You may have noticed over the past few weeks that we’ve posted a series of articles written by our sponsors (this one from Jeff of All Trades, this one from Social Suppers, and this one from Title Boxing Club). These “Sponsored Posts” are a designed give local businesses a channel to let our readers [...]
Tweet Today we flipped the switch on a new Prairie Village area business directory featuring some of the great businesses that help keep the Prairie Village Post going. Take a look here, or click the Local Businesses tab in the top navigation bar. The directory has contact and services information for our sponsors, along with [...]
Tweet Happy first birthday, us! Indeed, ’twas June 15, 2010, when we launched the site with this article about wet basements. Captivating stuff. But 900 posts, 1,000 Facebook fans, 3,000 comments, and 50,000 unique visitors later, we’re happy to report that we’ve become the most turned-to source for news about what’s happening in the SM [...]
Tweet We’ve got a couple of very exciting (at least to us) pieces of news to pass along. First: We’re proud to announce that we’ve signed on to an innovative collaboration arranged by The World Company (publishers of the Lawrence Journal-World, among other fine newspapers). In a nutshell, PVPost.com and three other hyperlocal, independent news [...]
Tweet You may notice that our new Facebook commenting platform has gone live. As we wrote a couple of weeks ago, we hope this move will foster a civil, productive comments section. To that end, we’re also unveiling a more detailed comments policy to help clarify the ground rules. This is the policy that we’ll [...]
Tweet First of all, thanks to the many of you who offered constructive input after we announced we’d be rolling out changes to our commenting system. After a couple weeks of deliberation, we’ve decided that we’ll be switching over to Facebook’s commenting platform in mid-May. We’ll also be unveiling a detailed forum policy before the [...]
Tweet Well, Prairie Village Posters, it’s time to have a serious talk. A serious talk about comments. You may have noticed that over the past couple weeks the comments section on the site has gotten pretty heated. Some comments have spread inaccurate information. Many more have been uncivil. We’d like to change that. And we’d [...]
Tweet It was six months ago today that we flipped the switch on PVPost.com, the only news source dedicated exclusively to what’s happening in the SM East area. Nearly 400 posts, 1,000 comments, 40,000 visitors and 60,000 pageviews later, time has definitely flown by. But with each passing week, we’ve watch a fledgling online community [...]
Tweet Attention astute PVPost.com readers: did you notice the site looks just a bit different than it did yesterday? Well. It does. We’ve tightened up the header image and added some social media links to the nav area. Additionally, we’ve implemented a Twitter sharing tool at the top of every post to make it easier [...]
Tweet You have accumulated large amounts of possessions for which you have almost no use. Your space is limited. So you’re having a garage sale. You want people to show up, so you’ve made up a bunch of colorful yard signs. And don’t get us wrong — they’re great — but it’s 2010. You need a cutting [...]
Tweet Hey, Prairie Village Posters: it’s your editor here, with a friendly reminder that we have a TOTALLY FREE classifieds section just begging to be used. By you. If you’re looking to part ways with a car, furniture, baby gear or bike, simply visit the classifieds section, and post your item in the appropriate category. [...]
