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Tweet Story restaurant isn’t the only local business to have gotten a pleasing pour of panegyric from Wine Spectator. The Village Shops’ Rimann Liquors is one of just three stores in the state to make the magazine’s “outstanding wine shop list.” And the national attention for the stores at 71st Street and Mission Road doesn’t [...]
Tweet Boulevard Brewery’s immensely popular Chocolate Ale is returning to one Prairie Village liquor store’s shelves today — if only for a few hours. Rimann Liquors’ Mary Rimann said the store’s phone has been ringing off the hook with inquiries about the availability of the specialty brew, a co-production of Boulevard and Christopher Elbow Chocolates that [...]
Tweet When Sole Patch Barbershop owner Ron Mayer was looking for something to haul barbers chairs to the public events where his team offered shaves and haircuts, he felt it only appropriate that the vehicle convey a certain style. This past fall, “Walt,” the bright orange 1971 Chevy C-10 Deluxe that he found to fit [...]
Tweet The wave of restaurants that have opened at the Village Shops and Corinth Square aren’t just new — they’re also very good, at least according to The Pitch’s annual Best of KC issue. Urban Table, Tavern in the Village and Story all got a shout out in the issue, which hit stands last week. [...]
Tweet The city of Prairie Village unveiled the winners of its annual Community Spirit awards during the opening ceremony of VillageFest Monday. Rimann Liquors won this year’s award for a business. VillageFest organizer Diana Ewy Sharp, a Prairie Village City Councilwoman, said Rimann Liquors got a nod from the selection committee for its involvement with [...]
Tweet Chiefs safety Eric Berry was all smiles during a public appearance at Sole Patch barber shop in Corinth Square Saturday — but he had a serious reason for showing up. Berry was there to support friend Inky Johnson, a former University of Tennessee defensive back who served as an inspiration to Berry during his time [...]
Tweet LANE 4 president Owen Buckley gave the Prairie Village Environmental Committee a peak at the company’s preliminary redevelopment plans for the Village Shops and Corinth Square last night. In September, the Prairie Village City Council approved two Community Improvement Districts, raising the sales tax at the Village Shops and Corinth by 1 percent to [...]
Tweet According to the state’s primary nursing home advocacy group, one of the Kansas’s best nursing homes is right here in Prairie Village. Kansas Advocates for Better Care recently released the results of its most recent inspections of Kansas nursing homes, and found Claridge Court, 8101 Mission Road, to be one of only seven in [...]
Tweet I tell you what: those diligent alterna-jounalists over at the Pitch have a pretty big crush on Dolce Baking Company. Just last month, the paper named Dolce the Best Bakery in Kansas City. This morning, Jonathan Bender wrote a love letter to their new line of pumpkin pastries on the Pitch’s food blog, Fat [...]
Tweet Mayor Ron Shaffer and members of the city council joined the Northeast Johnson County Chamber of Commerce and Macy’s staff Thursday morning for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Macy’s remodeled Prairie Village store. As part of the renovations the main store received, the home store, which had been located in the suite on the Village [...]
Tweet It was just last week that Johnson County Sun co-publisher Steve Rose was celebrating the 60th anniversary of the publication his parents started as The Prairie Scout in 1950. Today, in a surprising move, he bid readers of his column, which he’s written in one form or another for 40 years, adieu. Rose said [...]
Tweet The “Until the Whole World Sees” fundraiser held at Brookside Optical last weekend raised $4,000 for the Lions Club, which will use the money to help fund sight-related initiatives like eye tissue transplants. Approximately 125 people showed up for the event, which featured a live remote from KUDL DJ Tanna Guthrie, who also served [...]
Tweet After 33 days of drilling, the 33 Chilean miners who’d been trapped underground since Aug. 5 are all back safely on the surface thanks to the work of a 128-year-old company based in Mission Woods, Kan. Layne Christensen Co., which manages drilling projects around the world, pulled two of its best drillers from other [...]
