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Tweet Construction crews in Fairway are at work putting in a new section of sidewalk from the west side of the 5600 block of Mission Road south to the city limit at 63rd Street — and it serves as an interesting point of reference in the ongoing trails debate in Prairie Village. At five feet, [...]
Tweet Four SM East graduates are among the 45 University of Kansas seniors inducted into this year’s class of Mortar Board honorees. Mortar Board is a senior honor society that selects members based on “distinguished ability and achievement in scholarship, leadership and service.” Outgoing chapter members select new members for admission. The average GPA of [...]
Tweet I know, I know. With the return to truly spring-like weather this past week, the thought of taking a dip in the pool is considerably more shiver-inducing than it was, say, in mid-March when the mercury was pushing 85 degrees. But don’t let that stop you from taking advantage of a pretty good deal [...]
Tweet Well, Villagers, through the magic of the Internet web machines, the progenitor of the prom proposal that had all the town abuzz last week saw our li’l story and filled us in on the deets (which, I’m told, is a cooler way to say “details”). Christopher Heady said he hatched the plan to ask [...]
Tweet A Prairie Village-based tech startup that uses a web platform to connect meat eaters with local farmers is getting some major attention. AgLocal co-founders Naithan Jones and Jacob McDaniel are featured in the current issue of Fast Company magazine as one of six ventures that embody the “United States of Innovation.” Though it hasn’t [...]
Tweet Pop quiz, Villagers. What do the following people have in common? Five-time Grammy Award winner Norah Jones Vocal virtuoso Josh Groban Indie rock darlings Damian Kulash and Tim Nordwind of the band OK Go SM East junior Lily Kaufmann A: As of the end of this summer, they will all be graduates of the [...]
Tweet The US Postal Service has determined that mail tampering charges made by Kansans for No Income Tax against local state Sen. Terrie Huntington are false and that Huntington did nothing wrong. The allegations surfaced last week when the Topeka Capital Journal published an article in which Kansans for No Income Tax representatives claimed Huntington [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village police had never given a “Spirit of Fortitude” award before. They’d also never encountered a woman quite like Marti Hill. Before a packed chamber at City Hall Monday, Chief Wes Jordan presented Hill with a plaque and read a commendation recognizing the incredible perseverance Hill demonstrated in surviving the brutal attack [...]
Tweet If there’s an upside to the recent school closings in the area, it’s that the vacant buildings have given local police and fire teams a unique opportunity to conduct specialized training operations. Local law enforcement teams today will be using Mission Valley Middle School as the site for exercises designed to prepare officers for [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village City Council on Monday decided to let sitting fences lie. With a unanimous vote, they declared the project along Tomahawk Road completed, deciding against moving forward with a plan to add chain link backing to the wood rails. The move came after many of the neighbors who had called for the [...]
Tweet A standard procedural move following the swearing in of three new Prairie Village City Councilmembers on Monday turned into an airing of grievances about the conduct of Ward 5′s David Morrison, who was set to assume the role of City Council president based on his seniority. The council president is responsible for running the [...]
Tweet The crime category that had remained stubbornly high throughout much of 2010 and 2011 in Prairie Village has shown a marked drop in the first quarter of 2012 — though police officials cautioned that it’s too early to draw any conclusions yet. Police Chief Wes Jordan told the City Council Monday that there had [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village City Council on Tuesday effectively squelched the possibility that an eight-foot-wide section of concrete trail would be built along Somerset Drive from Franklin Park to Nall Avenue — a move that raises doubt about the viability of the entire trails system proposed in the city’s Parks Master Plan. By a vote of [...]
Tweet Feedback from residents and members of the City Council has prompted Prairie Village city administrators to at least temporarily halt completion of the new fence along Tomahawk Road that’s replacing the controversial chain link version that was removed last month. The design approved by the city council in February called for chain link to [...]
Tweet A Prairie Village tradition appears to be in danger of coming to an end. With just over a month left before team registration closes, city parks and recreation administrators are having a difficult time finding a coach to lead Prairie Village’s synchronized swimming, threatening to cancel the season — and with it the 53rd [...]
Tweet The mother of a woman killed two years ago after a standoff with Prairie Village police has filed a civil lawsuit seeking $4 million in damages against the city and nine officers involved in the incident. Lawyers for Beverly Stewart, mother of Susan Stuckey, filed a motion in U.S. District Court last week seeking [...]
Tweet Most Tomahawk Road neighbors seem to be pleased with the installation of the new fence along Brush Creek. Most. Julia saw the fox above standing across the street from the crew installing the new fence yesterday. (Yes, we know in the picture it kind of looks like a Corgi — but it was definitely [...]
Tweet Construction crews on Wednesday began removal and replacement of the controversial chain link fence that had been installed along Tomahawk Road earlier this year. Prairie Village Public Works project manager Keith Bredehoeft said the new fence – a log rail front with chain link backing — should be installed within the week. The low [...]
Tweet The former SM East janitor who has been convicted twice of killing a Prairie Village girl in 1974 was back in a Johnson County courtroom Tuesday appealing the results of the trail that put him in jail with a life sentence. Lawyers for John Henry Horton successfully argued that during the second trial in [...]
Tweet Our call last week for great Prairie Village seasonal photos has our readers springing into action, blooming with ideas, budding with creativity, and doing any number of things that could be turned into offensively banal spring puns. We’ve gotten close to 20 entries so far for our contest, where the winner gets a $25 gift card [...]
Tweet After an extensive public hearing on the issue Tuesday, the Prairie Village Planning Commission had a message for the Nall Avenue homeowners who have been protesting a proposal that would have named Nall the preferred route for a future concrete trail: We heard you loud and clear. The commission voted unanimously to reject the [...]
Tweet Prairie Village residents on Tuesday voted in three new city councilmembers, eliminating three incumbents in an election that changes the face of the city’s governing body more drastically than at any time in the past decade. Challengers Ashley Weaver, Ward 1, Brooke Morehead, Ward 4, and Ted Odell, Ward 6, ousted sitting councilmembers Al [...]
Tweet We’ll be posting live updates on results from today’s Prairie Village City Council elections via our Twitter feed, which we’ll run below as well. The Johnson County Election Office says preliminary results should start coming in around 7:30 p.m. with final results confirmed around 8:30 p.m. or so.
Tweet Polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. for today’s General Election in Prairie Village. Voters will decide in three contested City Council elections, in Wards 1, 4 and 6. Check out our election primer here, or visit the Johnson County Election Office’s website for information about your ward and voting location.
Tweet Ward 1 City Councilman Al Herrera’s response to a candidate questionnaire in the Kansas City Star last week has drawn attention from supporters of his opponent in Tuesday’s Prairie Village City Council elections. In the profile published last Wednesday in 913, the Star lists Herrera as having attended the “UMKC Kauffman Foundation Center for [...]
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