Archives for “Parks”
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 [...]
Tweet With the din of pre-election political chatter gone, a proposal to rename a park after Prairie Village’s longest-serving mayor sailed through the City Council Monday. By a vote of 10-0, the council approved a measure renaming Meadowlake Park, just west of the intersection of Belinder Ave. and 79th Street, after Monroe Taliaferro, who held [...]
Tweet We got an email from PVPost.com reader Joe Houston late last week that we thought might merit a li’l bit of community discussion. Houston wrote in inquiring about the status of the Carroll Plaza fountain at the northwest corner of 75th Street and Mission Road. The fountain was out of commission all last year, [...]
Tweet Highlands Elementary second graders got a little extra fresh air this morning in recognition of Arbor Day. The students gathered at Peterson Park in Fairway where they took an Arbor Day-themed civics quiz administered by Mayor Jerry Wiley (Sample question: “Who is the mayor of Fairway?” Silence. One hand shoots up: “You are.” Good [...]
Tweet The McCrum Park water tower that was deconstructed and shipping off earlier this year didn’t have to travel far to start its new life. Prairie Village City Councilman Steve Noll snapped a few shots of the tower being put back together again at its new home with Vance Brothers Asphalt Contracting in Kansas City, [...]
Tweet You crazy kids, you People passing McCrum Park in Prairie Village on Sunday might have noticed a full-sized couch sitting in the middle of the tennis court. A neighbor whose house abuts the parks says a group of teenagers were there for nearly two hours Saturday night, and that when he woke up Sunday, [...]
Tweet Emails between Prairie Village staff and elected officials obtained under an open records request hint at tensions between the city’s Parks and Recreation Committee chair and administration — tensions that those familiar with the situation say may have led to negative outcomes related to recent parks projects, including the Tomahawk Road fence scheduled to [...]
Tweet Prairie Village City Hall may end up being a lively place on Election Night – but not because of voting in the city council races. The city today put nearly 800 letters in the mail informing residents in the Nall Avenue and Roe Avenue neighborhoods of a public hearing at the April 3 Planning Commission [...]
Tweet Recent proposed projects related to the Prairie Village trails system have caused quite a stir among residents. Protests from neighbors who hadn’t been included in the development of a plan to install the trail that included a chain link fence along Tomahawk Road ultimately led the council to approve replacing the fence with a [...]
Tweet Contractors working on an extensive renovation to a stately Mission Hills mansion have done more than $35,000 in damage to city park property — and the city is taking steps to ensure taxpayers don’t have to foot the bill. Mission Hills City Administrator Courtney Christensen said she has received final estimates for the cost [...]
Tweet The unseasonably warm weather and calm skies provided the perfect trappings for an airplane ride over Prairie Village. But since, like, we don’t have an airport, aviation enthusiasts have to settle for the next best thing. We caught up with John Koehler, a retired dentist who lives just over the state line in Kansas [...]
Tweet Crews from WaterOne have spent the weeks since the McCrum Park water tower was removed engaged in the time-consuming process of digging out the concrete footings that anchored the enormous structure for 60 years. Prairie Village Public Works Director Bruce McNabb said work is on target to meet the scheduled April re-opening date for [...]
Tweet Prior to the creation and adoption of its Parks Master Plan in 2009, the Prairie Village City Council spent months collecting input from residents through workshops, interviews and a survey sent to 2100 people. In that survey, 79 percent of respondents said they were in favor of the idea of a trail system that [...]
Tweet An agenda item that read as a simple call for clarification about the Prairie Village City Council’s support for a series of walking and biking trails devolved into a nightmarish bureaucratic squabble that seemed leave city staff, council members and residents frustrated Monday. City Administrator Quinn Bennion and Assistant City Administrator Dennis Enslinger addressed [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village City Council tonight will discuss whether to support in principle a change to the city’s Parks Master Plan that would shift a proposed bike and walking trail from Roe Avenue west to Nall Avenue. At a Planning Commission meeting earlier this month, city consultant Ron Williamson presented a report noting that [...]
Tweet Seven of Prairie Village’s 14 parks are named after former mayors — so a proposal to rechristen Meadowlake Park in honor of former mayor Monroe “Roe” Taliaferro may not seem controversial on its face. But its timing in the lead up to a contested election has at least one resident crying foul. Parks and [...]
Tweet At the their meeting next Monday, Feb. 6, members of the Prairie Village City Council are likely to take up of the issue of what — if anything — to do about the controversial fence installed along the new asphalt path from Porter Park to 71st Street along Tomahawk Road. The council should hear [...]
Tweet Crews have made swift work of the behemoth water tower that stood over McCrum Park. Since they began dismantling it Friday, they’ve managed to take down the entirety of the water tank itself, and have nearly desconstructed the support braces and legs. As of 5 p.m. Monday, all that remained was the bottom half [...]
Tweet With the help of a gigantic crane on Friday, workers deconstructed the water tower that has stood high above McCrum Park for more than a half century. For the past few days, crews had used blowtorches to score lines along the tank’s exterior. On Friday, they hooked the tank panels to the crane as [...]
Tweet More than 60 years after it went up, the McCrum Park water tower in Prairie Village is on its way down. Crews have begun dismantling the tower, cutting two circular access holes in its north and south sides. On Tuesday, they began scoring the tank with blowtorches, preparing it to be broken down into [...]
Tweet Prairie Village’s Public Works staff had all but closed the books on the fence and trail installation project along Brush Creek from Porter Park to 71st Street. Now, they’re going back to the drawing board. The City Council directed Public Works staff to develop a variety of options for removing the current fence and [...]
Tweet Weather permitting, the removal of the decommissioned water tower at McCrum Park in Prairie Village could begin as early as this week, Prairie Village Public Works Director Bruce McNabb has told the Prairie Village Parks and Recreation Committee. WaterOne, Johnson County’s water utility, has sold the tank to a company that will reuse it [...]
Tweet Looks like the group working to bring community garden plots to Prairie Village had a pretty good feel for the market. The plots at Harmon Park and Cherokee Christian Church all sold out within just a few days of opening up for reservations. The plots are set to open up Apr. 2 with a [...]
Tweet Ten Prairie Village homeowners with property near the new Brush Creek fence presented a unified front at the Parks and Recreation Committee meeting Wednesday night, with representatives telling the committee they were upset and disappointed with the way the project had been carried out. “We felt blindsided,” said Marianne Noll, who lives with her [...]
Tweet Prairie Village Parks and Recreation Chair Diana Ewy Sharp said Wednesday she was aware on Oct. 3, 2011, that the material for a proposed fence along Brush Creek had changed from previous plans put before the City Council — and that her peers should have known as well. Ewy Sharp rejected suggestions that, as [...]
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