Awards & Honors

For 50 years, when someone in Johnson County has dialed 911, Med-Act has answered. Behind every call are neighbors — paramedics, EMTs and first responders — ready to bring calm, care, and skill in life’s most urgent moments. As part...

The soft sound of ukulele can sometimes be heard outside the kindergarten classrooms at Central Elementary School in Olathe. Music teacher Rachel Marlow knows school can be scary for first-time students, so her morning serenades are a way to...

The Johnson County Park and Recreation District has received the top honor in the nation for parks and recreation management. The American Academy for Parks and Recreation Administration and the National Recreation and Park Association awarded JCPRD with the 2025...

The legacy of the late Rick Pribyl, a longtime soccer coach and teacher in the Blue Valley School District, lives on in the new name of the soccer field at Switzer District Athletic Complex. The Blue Valley Board of Education...

A team of high schoolers from the Shawnee Mission School District recently took home the top prize in a national barbecue competition. Broadmoor Bistro’s “Caught Smokin” squad earned the top trophy at the National High School BBQ Championship, which was...

Ten students from Johnson County will take the next step in their careers as they head out to U.S. service academies. At a send-off event on Tuesday at Corporate Woods Founders Park, Rep. Sharice Davids and several Armed Forces veterans...

The Johnson County Park and Recreation District is one of four finalists for the 2025 National Gold Medal Award, which is the industry's equivalent to the Super Bowl. This is the ninth time in JCPRD's history that the district has...

He was honored for his contribution to higher education this year, but it was a different story in 1980, when Jon Stewart, Johnson County Community College’s honoree of the year, was trying to get his start in life. Stewart had...

Former horticulturalist Dennis Patton, the longtime agent at Johnson County K-State Research and Extension Office, will be memorialized next month with the dedication of the demonstration garden there as the Dennis Patton Garden Gallery. The dedication ceremony will be from...

The Johnson County Post’s coverage of the 10th anniversary of hate-fueled shootings in Overland Park as well as a Shawnee Mission high school football player's tragic death after a summer practice were among the works cited for awards this...

Briarwood Elementary sixth grader Jiya Bhavsar will continue what has become a family tradition when she takes the stage at the Kansas Sunflower Spelling Bee on March 22. Jiya, the recent winner of the Johnson County spelling bee, will make...

Community members, local leaders and Overland Park first responders gathered at the Deanna Rose Children’s Farmstead to honor the life and service of the fallen officer for whom the site is named. Officer Deanna Rose died 40 years ago this...