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Tweet A losing candidate in April’s Roeland Park mayoral election has asked the council to censure one of its own members, Megan England, over a campaign flyer circulated last month. Linda Mau lost the mayor’s race in April to Joel Marquardt by a wide margin. Her focus Monday night, though, was on England, whom she [...]
Tweet Prairie Village isn’t the only northeast Johnson County to earn a “Tree City USA” designation from the Arbor Day Foundation. Roeland Park made the list again this year as well, the 20th time Roeland Park has earned the accolade. Roeland Park and Prairie Village earned the designation by meeting the Arbor Day Foundation’s four [...]
Tweet Roeland Park will hold a public farewell reception for its outgoing officials Monday night before a new group, elected last week, takes over. The reception at 7 p.m. at city hall will honor departing mayor Adrienne Foster and council members Betsy Mellor, Mark Kohles and Bill Art. Foster served four years as mayor and [...]
Tweet The last two undeveloped properties in Roeland Park sit across the street from the Gateway project in Mission. And one of those parcels is already destined to become the site of a new Commerce Bank branch. The properties are the green spaces on the north side of Johnson Drive on both the east and [...]
Tweet Roeland Park’s Adrienne Foster failed to garner enough votes in Tuesday’s primary to make it onto April’s general election ballot, marking the beginning of the end of her sometimes controversial tenure as mayor after just one term. Challenger Joel Marquardt emerged Tuesday as the clear frontrunner for the office, picking up 57 percent of [...]
Tweet Roeland Park is one of the few communities in northeast Johnson County (Fairway being another) that will have a primary election tomorrow. While Fairway’s race only draws voters from one ward, in Roeland Park voters across the city will narrow the field for the April mayoral election. Incumbent Adrienne Foster faces two challengers in [...]
Tweet The deadline to file for spring elections is noon Tuesday and among the candidates who have declared their intent to run is Fairway Mayor Jerry Wiley, who is seeking a second term in office. Wiley defeated John St. Clair four years ago in a highly contended election. As of now, Wiley is unopposed for [...]
Tweet The backers of a Roeland Park sales tax increase only needed to pick up 35 votes among the provisional ballots to close the gap after voting ended last Tuesday. They picked up 29. The opponents of the tax proposal picked up 30, so the tax question actually lost ground. In official results posted by [...]
Tweet Although election day is over, a major issue for Roeland Park may still hang on provisional ballots that have yet to be counted. In northeast Johnson County, both Roeland Park and Mission had questions on Tuesday’s ballot that did not involve candidates running for office. In Mission, voters were asked to approve a [...]
