Mission News

The Shawnee Mission community had a chance to say goodbye to outgoing Superintendent Gene Johnson Tuesday and the SM West cafeteria was filled with friends, colleagues and community leaders.

Nearly 100 World War II veterans took part in a Music City Honor Flight to Washington D.C. to visit the memorial built in their honor.

It can be a little disconcerting spotting a wild animal in your backyard, but it's happening more and more lately.

The films, "Star Mission" and "One Lucky Lady," are suitable for anyone in the sixth grade and older.

Hobby Lobby and other parts of Mission West could have been renovated with additional sales tax funds under the CID plan.

The Prairie Village restaurant scene has undergone a major transformation since Jay and I moved here almost four years ago.

Coyotes, roaming the wild, open spaces of Mission - yes, Mission, Kan. - have caused a bit of a stir in a neighborhood just north of Shawnee Mission Parkway and a couple blocks west of the soon to be developed Gateway acreage.

"The relentless budgetary attacks on State housing tenants and their families, clearly highlights the treacherous role private sector charities have played in the housing policy-making process." says Housing Lobby Spokesperson Sue Henry.

Mission's Johnson Drive rehabilitation hit some speed bumps Wednesday when the city council refused to support a revised spending plan for the project.

The vacant Blockbuster building on Johnson Drive would be part of the re-development along with Hobby Lobby and the Mission West center.

Bob Myer, president of the Honor Flight Network Northeast Indiana, speaks about the free screening of "Honor Flight: One Last Mission" at Parkview Field.

The Johnson County Board of Commissioners last week took a moment to provide special recognition to Phil Hodgdon, the Consolidated Fire District No.

These are the fundamental questions surrounding a legal threat presented by a lawyer for Twister Sister's founder, John Jay French, to a tiny coffee shop in Mission, Kan.

You may have noticed that we don't do long-form journalism over here at PVPost.com But the good people over at The Pitch do! And Pitch reporter Steve Vockrodt takes an in-depth look at the controversy surrounding the Mission Chateau proposal in this week's cover story.

The answer, of course, is that they are both Twisted Sisters. One is the coffee shop and cafe on Johnson Drive in Mission.

It was a day for firsts and lasts Tuesday for the SM East PTA. At the last meeting of the year, the group installed what is believed to be its first male president in Randy Davis and said goodbye to departing SM East principal Karl Krawitz.

A diagram showing the sidewalk/trail with variable widths along Mission Lane. The sections in yellow are the narrowest at six feet wide.

A rendering of the proposed Mission Chateau senior living community that the Tutera Group would like to build on the Mission Valley Middle School site.

The Mission Family Fun Festival kicks off Thursday night with a carnival just north of the Sylvester Powell Community Center.

Tiffany Greens Golf Course hosted the Golf Channel Amateur Tour on Sunday May 5. The players were faced with a course that in the first week of May had endured freezing cold temperatures, rain and snow.