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Tweet Judging by traffic and comments on yesterday’s story about the Prairie Village Parks and Recreation Committee’s prioritized plan for parks improvements, it appears there’s plenty of interest in the idea of modernizing the area’s recreation spaces — and plenty of ideas about what the priorities should be. That in mind, we figured it would [...]
Tweet Tasked with striking a balance between limited city resources and the need to update an aging parks system, representatives of the Prairie Village Parks and Recreation Committee on Monday presented a roadmap for making notable, if limited, improvements to city parks over the next four years. The plan, which emerged from more than six [...]
Tweet Well, friends, it’s been about four months, so we figured it’s probably about time for another installment in our wildly popular and just as wildly infrequent “Talk amongst yourselves” series. Today’s conversation starter comes courtesy of reader Francie Bailey Wendlandt, who posted the following call for sanity in an insane world on our Facebook [...]
Tweet Nancy Wallerstein of Prairie Village, a long-time Johnson County Parks and Recreations Commissioner, has received the Kansas Recreation and Park Association 2013 Distinguished Board Member Award. She has been a member of the Johnson County board since 1999. Wallerstein also was a member of the Prairie Village parks committee for 15 years and served [...]
Tweet Boy, I tell you what: Winter can’t be over soon enough for this fella. And luckily there are li’l signs that spring — and then summer — will be here soon enough. Among them: Fairway has opened registration for its summer Parks and Recreation programs. Take a look: Click on the program titles below to learn about [...]
Tweet Village Shops-area park enthusiasts’ long, motionless nightmare is over. After months of its equipment sitting in disrepair, Porter Park got a new crossbar and swing last week, ending a drought that left park patrons up in the air. Prairie Village Public Works reported last summer that the swings at Porter Park were damaged by [...]
Tweet The nearly new asphalt trail at Prairie Village’s Franklin Park is already showing significant signs of deterioration, prompting the city to seek restitution in the form of repairs. The only problem: The company the installed the trail in 2010 is now out of business. As a result, Prairie Village Public Works is sorting through [...]
Tweet With a lukewarm endorsement to further explore a proposal for a $45 million natatorium/community center on the Prairie Village municipal grounds, the Prairie Village Parks and Recreation Committee on Wednesday opened formal discussions about a major project that could create a significant — and expensive — community asset. The Prairie Village City Council will [...]
Tweet “Wow.” “Exciting.” “Really cool.” Also: “Expensive.” “Unfeasible without a partner.” “Of questionable benefit to Prairie Village residents.” Those were among the sentiments members of the Prairie Village Parks and Recreation Committee expressed Wednesday as they reacted to a report outlining potential community center/natatorium projects that might be built around the city’s existing pool complex. [...]
Tweet Happy Thanksgiving, NEJCers! We hope you’re spending the day with the people you’re most thankful for, and have some time amid the massive meal preparations to take a minute and reflect on things that make your life worth being thankful for. We’re going to take a li’l break from our usual news delivery format [...]
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 A new swimming pool for Mission will be one of the issues decided on the November ballot along with all of the candidate races. The proposal would replace the city’s current aging pool, built in 1956. The pool will be open for public tours Saturday so Mission residents can see the physical and structural [...]
Tweet What could be more idyllic than a late-summer swing in the park, with your feet to the sky, the wind blowing through your hair, all your troubles floating away? Well, hopefully something. Because two sets of swings at Prairie Village’s Franklin and Porter Parks are out of commission for the near future, which means [...]
Tweet Lana Hergenrader said she was sure she would be able to keep her composure. She was strong. She was ready to put on a brave face to show the others what beating cancer looked like. After all, Hergenrader had been free of the disease for more than a year. But as the first strains [...]
Tweet Prairie Village’s Meadowlake Park is no longer; Taliaferro (pronounced “tolliver”) Park has been born. Dozens of friends, family members and municipal colleagues enduring the scorching heat Saturday morning to honor former Prairie Village mayor Monroe “Roe” Taliaferro with a ceremony officially renaming the park at 2900 W 79th Street. Taliaferro, who is now 89, [...]
Tweet (Assuming the weather ever returns to some semblance of normalcy and it would actually be comfortable enough to want to go for a walk in the park) residents of the neighborhoods around Prairie Village’s Windsor Park are in for a treat, as the city is preparing to start work to revamp the park’s decaying [...]
Tweet It’s not that the news was a big surprise to Prairie Village resident Jim Miksch. His father had battled the disease himself, after all. But there’s simply no avoiding just how jarring it can be to hear the word “cancer” coming out of your doctor’s mouth can have. “My father had prostate cancer, so [...]
Tweet More than a year and a half after Prairie Village police filed charges against a group of minors responsible for a wave of graffiti attacks around Corinth Square, vandals have hit the park just a few blocks away. Several pieces of the playground equipment at Franklin Park had white spray paint tags on them [...]
Tweet A seed of an idea planted years ago in Prairie Village has finally taken root — and is likely to grow even bigger next year. Organizers of Prairie Village’s Community Garden Project, which spent years in various stages of planning before being formally announced last fall, recently found out it will receive a grant from [...]
Tweet The city’s longest-serving former mayor has officially joined the Prairie Village parks club. Current Mayor Ron Shaffer and dozens of Claridge Court residents were on hand Thursday for a ceremony honoring Monroe “Roe” Taliaferro and formally re-naming Meadowlake Park at 2900 W. 79th Street in his honor. Taliaferro served as Prairie Village mayor from [...]
Tweet City Councilor Charles Clark feels strongly that it’s the duty of the city to protect and maintain the infrastructure built up in Prairie Village since the city was incorporated in 1951. And he’s warning his colleagues on the City Council that, unless they make changes to the city’s revenue and spending formula, the roads, [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village City Council on Monday narrowly voted down a motion that would have put a referendum for a 3/8 percent sales tax increase to fund parks improvements and maintenance before city voters in November. The issue came before the council after the city’s finance committee and parks committee worked on options to [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village City Council on Monday will take up initial discussion of a Parks Committee recommendation that could put a 3/8 percent sales tax increase to fund parks improvements and maintenance before city voters in November. After wrapping up its budgeting process for 2012 last fall, the council began discussing options for finding [...]
Tweet It was a diamond day Sunday for the second annual Bark-n-Blues music and dogs festival at Franklin Park. Josh Vowell and the Rumble provided the “blues” mentioned in the event title: Pretty much everyone else provided the “bark”: The event, put on by Tomahawk Animal Hospital and Somerset Veterinary Clinic, helps support metro area [...]
Tweet Former Prairie Village Mayor Sue Weltner took a ceremonial first trip down the slide at the park named in her honor Saturday during a rededication ceremony after a major renovation. The $335,000 revamp of the park at State Line Road and 79th Street began last August, when construction crews also started rerouting Cambridge Street [...]
