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Tweet Time to suit up NEJCers! Because with the arrival of Memorial Day weekend, you’d better believe pool season is here. I know, I know…it’s been a li’l chilly these past couple days. But the weekend forecast has us hitting 79 degrees on Saturday and 77 on Sunday (and maybe a chance of thunderstorms…) Anydoodle, [...]
Tweet It’s looking all but certain that Prairie Village won’t have a Water Show this July for the first time in more than 50 years. Prairie Village Assistant Danielle Dulin, who oversees the city’s pool operations, announced this week that the city had failed to find a coach for the synchronized swimming team this year [...]
Tweet Fairway will start a special collection for brush and limbs that fell as a result of Sunday’s intense winds this Tuesday, May 28. The city sent the guidelines below about the collection process. Collection will begin on Tuesday, May 28. Public Works cannot tell ahead of time exactly when they will be by a particular [...]
Tweet A Prairie Village native’s proclivities for the study of Jewish languages has earned him a prestigious fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education. Michael Lebovitz was one of two University of Kansas Jewish Studies students to earn the DOE’s Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships for this summer and the following school year. With [...]
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 Corinth Square patrons have been sending us questions of late on the status of the SPIN! Neapolitan Pizza location that had been tentatively slated to open early this year. And here’s the update: SPIN! is most definitely still coming to Corinth. And Prairie Villagers are likely to see significant construction work begin later this [...]
Tweet Eric Mikkelson, a Prairie Village attorney who is involved in city politics and serves on the Prairie Hills Homes Association’s board of directors, has taken a position as a partner in Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP’s Corporate Finance Division. Mikkelson moves to Stinson from Dentons, where he was a partner as well. In practice for [...]
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 It was one of the SM East boys golf team’s worst outings of the season. And it was still good enough for second place in the state. The Lancers on Monday played host to 11 teams and additional individual competitors from across the state at Meadowbrook Golf Course for the Kansas 6A tournament, an [...]
Tweet Northeast Johnson County found itself in Mother Nature’s cross hairs once again Sunday as it bore the brunt of an intense thunderstorm whose high winds felled tree branches and downed power lines — damage whose effects persisted late into Monday. Prairie Village, Fairway and Mission Hills were among the hardest hit areas in the area, [...]
Tweet The MainStream Coalition’s legislative series wraps up this Thursday with its final program: Legislative Dust Settles: Where Are We Now? It anticipates the Kansas Legislature, still in session today, will have adjourned by Thursday night. The program takes place from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Colonial Church, 71st and Mission Road in Prairie Village [...]
Tweet By Chris Heady The SM East girls soccer team’s season came to a close Friday night when the Lady Lancers lost to Blue Valley North 2-1 in the regional finals. The loss was the Lancer’s first regional final loss in three years, and gave the Lady Lancers a final record of 12-2-4. “It’s tough, this [...]
Tweet As key dates in the approval process for the Mission Chateau development approach, we’ve gotten a number of questions about the relative size of the development and about its impact on Prairie Village city finances. We’ll try to delve into a bit of detail on these issues in the coming weeks, starting today with [...]
Tweet Heads up, NEJC motorists: Prairie Village’s participation in Kansas’s annual “Click It or Ticket” campaign starts Monday and will run through June 2. During Click It or Ticket, police officers will be “aggressively enforcing Kansas occupant restraint” laws — translation: buckle up. From the Prairie Village police: Drivers can expect strict enforcement of both the [...]
Tweet By Chris Heady Dustin Delaney from Emporia High School is the new SM East Head Football Coach, according to incoming principal John McKinney. “This afternoon we are going to make a formal announcement that our head football coach position has been accepted by Dustin Delaney,” McKinney said in a statement to PVPost.com. For the [...]
Tweet Be careful out there tonight. Mission police and several other law enforcement agencies will be running another sobriety checkpoint looking for impaired and dangerous drivers. The checkpoint will extend into early Saturday morning. Drivers will be screened for impairment and those who show signs of intoxication will be tested further to determine if they [...]
Tweet Mission’s Johnson Drive rehabilitation hit some speed bumps Wednesday when the city council refused to support a revised spending plan for the project. An attempt to repeal an April authorization to use eminent domain for right-of-way acquisition failed, but three council members supported the repeal. A unanimous approval of Gerry Vernon as city administrator [...]
Tweet Spring in northeast Johnson County is a glorious time. And humans aren’t the only species the appears attracted to its wonders. Reader Wayne Miller sent in this pic of a deer running across Lamar Ave. at 77th Street toward Prairie Village:
Tweet SeniorCare Homes, which operates several small Alzheimer’s homes in neighborhood settings, has received another two zero-deficiency surveys from the Kansas Department on Aging and Disability Services. Jerry Pullins, operator of SeniorCare Homes, said all four of his Alzheimer’s care centers are currently operating at zero deficiency status. Each location is surveyed once per year [...]
Tweet A Prairie Village resident has informed the city that a group called “Johnson County Open Carry” intends to hold an “open carry of holstered firearms picnic” at the Harmon Park Pavilion in June. The event would ostensibly test Prairie Village’s ban on openly carried firearms within the city limits — a ban that a [...]
Tweet If you are looking for a bargain this weekend, heading to Mission might be your best bet. The city-wide garage sale kicked off yesterday and continues today and tomorrow. More than 50 homes in the city have registered for the city sale and you can find a list of addresses and items that are [...]
Tweet A number of Prairie Village and north Leawood residents near the Kansas City, Mo., border Thursday night were awakened by a police search for two suspects in a robbery that took place at 76th and Wornall. Prairie Village Police Capt. Wes Lovett said his department, as well as officers from Leawood and Kansas City, [...]
Tweet Prairie Village is home to a new, locally-owned bank, which opened this week in Corinth Square. The First National Bank, which has locations in Louisburg and Stillwell, is in the southwest corner of Corinth near 83rd and Somerset in the former Bank of America building. Two other businesses that have some common ownership interests [...]
Tweet A carefully crafted and aesthetically delightful “country club for seniors” that will allow aging Prairie Village residents to stay in the city they call home. A haphazardly conceived, overbearing monstrosity for which there is questionable demand and that will suck millions of dollars of home value from the surrounding neighborhood. Those were the opposing [...]
Tweet Prairie Village residents can expect for major renovations at the Village Shops to rev up very soon. After lengthy debate Monday, the City Council approved the final plat for the redevelopment of Mission Lane and the replacement building for Waid’s, clearing the way for major construction to begin. The sticking point with the plat [...]
