It’s Thursday, Shawnee Mission!
☀️ Today’s forecast: Sunny and slightly warmer. High: 88. Low: 66.
🚨 Happening today
The Shawnee Mission Post continues its fall candidate forum schedule tonight with two back-to-back forums featuring candidates vying for Roeland Park and Fairway City Council.
Tonight’s event will be held at Cedar Roe Library, 5120 Cedar St., in Roeland Park. Tell us you’re coming at our Facebook Events page.
The Roeland Park forum will be first and will start at 6 p.m., followed by the Fairway forum immediately after, which will start around 7 p.m.
The Post is conducting 11 planned nights of forums over the next month, featuring candidates running for local offices, including mayor, city council and school board.
If you missed it, we did a forum for JCCC Board of Trustees candidates on Tuesday, which you can watch here.
If you can’t attend in person, all our forums will be livestreamed on our Facebook page and archived there for voters to watch at any point between now and Election Day on Nov. 7.
🗓 Public meetings Thursday
- Board of County Commissioners, 9:30 a.m. [View agenda]
🚀 Post’s top Wednesday stories
- Movie filmed in Shawnee hits theaters this weekend
- Shawnee man tried to kill family to avoid truth about financial troubles, affidavit says
- Overland Park Fraternal Order of Police presses DA for charging decision in charity case
- JoCo Notes: Garmin KC Air Show canceled for 2024
- This year’s Best of Johnson County Medical, Dental & Health winners
📰 Other local news
- Makeshift memorial at OP park honors “Dog Whisperer.” Patrons at Overland Park’s South Lake Park have left pictures and mementos in memory of Ralph Morris, a park habitué known for giving dogs treats. [Kansas City Star]
- Government shutdown could impact KC region. The Kansas City metro is home to nearly 390,000 federal workers, many of whom could be furloughed or told not to come to work if Congress does not meet a Saturday deadline to fund the government. [Kansas City Business Journal]
- Estimated 12,000 Kansas mistakenly kicked off Medicaid rolls. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said more than two-dozen states, including Kansas, failed to conduct renewal assessments properly and consequently disenrolled too many people. [Kansas Reflector]
📸 A thousand words
Groovy! A group of first graders at Corinth Elementary in Prairie Village celebrated “Tie Dye Day” earlier this week. Photo courtesy X/@megansornson.
