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Tweet What with Earth Day just around the corner, we thought we ought to pass along the news that Prairie Village residents can now recycle cartons in their Deffenbaugh containers each week. Deffenbaugh uses the carton it collects to harvest paper fiber for the creation of new paper products and building materials. The following shelf-stable [...]
Tweet Get ready, Villagers, because the annual parade of large-load laden lorries is set to begin. That’s right, folks: It’s large item pick-up time. Prairie Village homeowners north of 75th Street can place all manner of “stuff” on their curbs Friday for Saturday morning removal, provided the items are…: Less than 150 pounds Smaller than [...]
Tweet Homeowners in the Normandy Square Homes Association are taking part in a pilot project that could become a model for turning food waste into compost throughout the area. Starting this month, 73 homes in the homes association received a separate waste container for depositing food scraps. The food scraps bin is collected on normal [...]
Tweet You lucky Fairway residents can start setting your fallen branches out by the curb for pickup starting today: The City of Fairway will begin curbside storm damage brush collection on Monday, March 11. The Public Works Department is waiting several days after the storm to begin collection to allow the snow to melt and [...]
Tweet See if you can remember way back to October 1996, when a freak fall storm piled snow on still-leafed trees throughout northeast Johnson County, downing hundreds of limbs. Remember that mountain of chunked wood that piled up in Porter Park? Well sir, we may have a similar site to behold in the coming weeks. [...]
Tweet Deffenbaugh trash crews will be working a rare Sunday in an effort to catch up after the snowstorm delayed pick up in many areas. From the city of Prairie Village: Deffenbaugh Industries has announced they will be collecting trash on some residential routes on Sunday, February 24 with the hope of getting caught up [...]
Tweet Prairie Village city councilor Ruth Hopkins has been honored by the Mid-America Regional Council for her work on waste management issues. At Friday’s MARC Solid Waste Management District annual meeting, Hopkins received the Elected Official Award in recognition of her dedication to waste reduction and recycling. Hopkins, a city councilor in Prairie Village since [...]
Tweet Trash days will look a little different for Westwood residents in 2013. By participating in a cooperative purchasing agreement with the cities of Roeland Park and Fairway, Westwood was able to negotiate a waste removal contract with Town & Country Disposal that reduces costs for homeowners and increases services over the previous agreement with [...]
Tweet Here’s a note from the good people at Prairie Village city hall reminding us about office hours and waste pickup schedules over the long holiday weekend: The Prairie Village Municipal Offices will be closed on Thursday, November 22 and Friday, November 23 for the Thanksgiving holiday. There will be no solid waste, recycling and yard waste [...]
Tweet If you’re one of those people who wonders whether the plastic bottles you toss in the recycling bin ultimately just end up in the dumpster, this story isn’t going to help cure your inherent cynicism. A series of investigations over the past week has uncovered that Prairie Village Public Works staffers charged with removing [...]
Tweet No, Prairie Village isn’t hosting a “Truck from the opening-credits of the Beverly Hillbillies look-a-like contest” this weekend. The steady stream of overburdened pickups filled to the brim with items of questionable utility sure to descend on Prairie Village tomorrow night will likely be on account of the city’s annual bulky item pickup. Crews [...]
Tweet Fairway residents recently requested new trash carts as part of Town and Country’s revised solid waste program for 2012. New trash and solid waste limits will go into effect Jan. 1: For households that requested a 65 gallon cart: When using the 65 gallon cart you are allowed to set out one (1) additional bag [...]
Tweet Take a look at that picture for a minute, will you. Really drink it in. You see that? That’s the product of week after week of hard work. Or, I guess you wouldn’t call it “work” exactly. How about “concerted effort.” Yeah…that’ll do. Week after week of concerted effort. And you know when the [...]
Tweet Prairie Village and Fairway residents ended up spending plenty of time in the lawn this weekend. They just didn’t get to work on the projects they probably had planned. Two days after the first of consecutive powerful storms hit the area, nearly 300 area residents were still without power. Stop lights along Roe Avenue [...]
Tweet Been wanting to get rid of those tax returns from 1984, but don’t want to just toss them out in the trash? If you’re a resident of Fairway, Mission Hills, Mission or Roeland Park, you can stop by Fairway City Hall, 4210 Shawnee Mission Parkway, from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. today and drop off up [...]
Tweet I fear that the weather may put a damper on this afternoon’s anticipated jalopy parade, as treasure hunters prowl the streets of Prairie Village south of 75th Street prior to Saturday’s scheduled big item pickup. (Big item pickup for homes north of 75th Street was last Saturday). A reminder from the city: Bulky items [...]
Tweet Listen: I know you want to get rid of the sofa you got from your grandmother’s basement. It’s been sitting in your garage for, like, three years now. And the vinyl cover is started to grow mold or something on it. But, you’re going to have to wait just a little bit longer, okay? [...]
Tweet Due to the inclement weather, the city of Prairie Village has announced trash collection will be delayed one day for the rest of the week: Trash scheduled to be picked up on Wednesday will be picked up on Thursday Trash scheduled to be picked up on Thursday will be picked up on Friday Trash [...]
Tweet Due to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, trash collection in Prairie Village was set to be delayed one day this week. So the area usually scheduled for Wednesdays was scheduled to be picked up today. However, due to the severe snow storm, the city announced today that the Wednesday collection area will be rescheduled [...]
Tweet The packages underneath it have been unwrapped. The needles are starting to dry out and fall quickly. Christmas is over, and that means it’s time to start thinking about taking down the Christmas tree. Both Town & Country Disposal and Deffenbaugh Industries, the two waste removal companies serving the area, will take trees free [...]
Tweet We’ve had a couple of readers ask whether Prairie Village was considering a curbside leaf pickup program similar to the ones available in Fairway and Roeland Park, so we checked in with city administrator Quinn Bennion. He said that the Prairie Village was looking into both city’s programs since he does get questions about [...]
Tweet Congrats, environmentally conscious Prairie Villagers. The Ripple Glass recycling receptacle at Corinth Square has taken in a total of 204 tons of glass since being installed in November 2009, making it the second most productive site in the metro area. A bin at 119th and Hardy Streets in Overland Park took top honors with [...]
Tweet Prairie Village residents who called to have a special pickup scheduled for flood-damaged items should have everything out to the curb by 5 p.m. tonight, according to the city’s Web site. Deffenbaugh will send crews to collect the items at houses north of 75th Street on Tuesday, and at houses south of 75th Street [...]
Tweet The intense storms that hit the area Sunday night have left a line of grass, leaves and sticks high up on the banks of Brush Creek as it runs along Porter Park toward the Village Shops. With the ground already saturated from a spring of heavy rains, the creek rose quickly on Sunday and [...]
