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Tweet It may be the most popular Ripple Glass Recycling bin in the metro. But since construction on Corinth Square began earlier this year, it hasn’t been able to find a permanent home. Prairie Village will be bringing the Ripple Bin most recently located behind the Mission Road Antique Mall onto municipal property near 77th [...]

Tweet     Chances are several homeowners from Roe Avenue and Nall Avenue will be beating a path to Prairie Village City Hall tonight. The public hearing on a proposal to name Nall Avenue as the preferred route for a possible trail to be held at tonight’s Planning Commission meeting is expected to attract dozens [...]

Tweet RED Development spokesman Dave Claflin said this week the company would take a wait-and-see approach to determine how best to respond to the organized Mission Valley Neighbors Association, which is putting up a strong front against the potential rezoning of the abandoned school site to allow for a mixed-use development. Claflin said RED would [...]

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Tweet It’s official, north Leawood: you’re historic. A series of signs posted around the area last month mark two “Historic Districts” designated by the Leawood City Council. The first — Historic District I — was established by the city council around a dozen years ago in the neighborhoods along the far north end of the [...]

Tweet Members of the Prairie Village Sister City committee are encouraging local residents to consider applying to host a Ukrainian exchange student. Vira comes from a town not far from Dolyna, one of Prairie Village’s sister cities, and has been accepted into an international exchange program. Vira hopes to come to the U.S. sometime in [...]

Tweet It’s rhubarb season, which means its time for me to make my annual rhubarb cake. It’s one of those old family recipes that involves a boxed cake mix, sugar and cream – in other words, it’s delicious. Boxed mixes have fallen out of favor in recent years, but for this recipe I wouldn’t think [...]

Tweet A miraculous thing happens in the springtime — one that I wait for all year. No, I’m not talking about the theme of a certain Mel Gibson movie. I’m talking about buying artichokes for 99 cents, as they were this week at Hen House. Now, usually I just view the artichoke as the ideal [...]

Tweet Pizza 51 owner Jason Pryor told PVPost.com last night that his company had finalized the purchase of the old Sinclair station on Mission Road, and will be opening up a new restaurant there this summer. Pryor will be finishing building plans for the restaurant over the next couple weeks. Once they’ve been submitted to [...]

Tweet The Kansas City Star editorial board on Monday endorsed at-large candidate Joan Leavens for the Shawnee Mission School Board. The editorial board called her the “top choice in an exceptionally talented field that also includes Bart Altenbernd of Prairie Village, a former teacher and school administer and now school paraprofessional, and John St. Clair [...]

Tweet The second annual Drum Run 5K race scheduled for Saturday at SM East has been postponed due to inclement weather forecast and current road conditions. Brad Ziegler of KC Running Company, which was organizing the race, says the event will be rescheduled for this spring. We’ll let you know when a new date has [...]

Tweet On this cold, wet Friday in February it seems there is little to like about winter. Snow-covered branches? Over it. Cozy sweaters? Been there, done that. But one winter staple that doesn’t grow old is a warm bowl of creamy, nutty steel cut oatmeal. I had long shied away from steel cut oatmeal because [...]

Tweet By the looks of it, Tony Liu, a Ward 3 representative on the Fairway City Council, is taking his bid for a second term very seriously. Liu has been going door to door talking with Ward 3 residents, and even has campaign signs out, a rarity for city council elections in the area. Liu [...]

Tweet If you live in a high pedetrian traffic area of Prairie Village, you may be getting a friendly reminder soon from the city to keep sidewalks clear of snow and ice. Property Codes Officer Marcia Gradinger will be sending out a reminder letter to residents who live along 75th Street, Mission Road and a [...]

Tweet We’ve had a few people ask us about the new sign above the northeast entrance at the bank building in Corinth vacated by Bank of America this summer. Jeffrey Berg of LANE 4 said the sign is for Price Chopper Enterprises, a collection of Price Chopper owners who collaborate on marketing and advertising. They’ve [...]

Tweet Corinth Elementary fifth grader Elle Green and Tomahawk Elementary third-grader Henry Harrison’s love of art and books recently brought them accolades in a area-wide art contest. Kansas City Price Chopper’s annual Bag You Book competition has local students pick a book they read in class or on their own and then design a new [...]

Tweet The in-laws are coming. You’re supposed to be cooking. And all of the holiday office treats and parties have you feeling like you’ve eaten enough for three. For me, at least, there are always a few days around Thanksgiving and Christmas when I feel like I really need to blow off some nervous energy [...]

Tweet Winter is settling in, folks — I feel it in my bones. Daylight savings and bare tree branches put me in hibernation mode. And when I hunker down for the winter, there is nothing I like more than something warm and cheesy. When I saw cauliflower on sale at the Hen House this week, [...]

Tweet Prairie Village, Mission Hills and old Leawood residents will soon be the envy of Charles Shaw fans across KC. Trader Joe’s, the famous grocer that’s gained legions of devotees nationwide for its affordable house-brand products (and cheap beer and wine), has announced it will open two Kansas City locations in 2011 — one of [...]

Tweet After hearing from Assistant City Administrator Dennis Enslinger on Tuesday that the sale of 7925 Reinhardt Lane had not been completed as promised, the Prairie Village City Council voted unanimously to begin taking legal action against the home’s owner, Millicent Seested. Completing the sale of the property, which had fallen into extreme disrepair and [...]