Holidays

Thanksgiving is behind us, which means the Christmas season is officially open. What are you all most looking forward to about the holidays around Prairie Village?

We swung by Falmouth Street after Thanksgiving dinner around 7:30 p.m. to see how the debut of Mike Babick's annual Christmas display was going, and while traffic was slow when we arrived, by the time we left half an...

Happy Thanksgiving, shawneemissionpost.com readers. What with it being a time of thoughtful reflection and all, we won't be posting much today. But we did want to share three things we're thankful for about living in Prairie Village: 1.) Phenomenal public...

We caught up with Mike Babick Tuesday evening as he was nearing the end of a month-long marathon of wiring and construction for his annual holiday lighting display. Here's what he had to say: Babick also said he thought the...

The 25th Annual lighting of the Mayor's Holiday Tree will take place at 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2 at Corinth Square. Mayor Ron Shaffer will be joined by Dickens Carloers, the St. Ann's Elementary School Choir, dancers from Dancerz Unlimited,...

Mike Babick says it will take some long days of work, but his popular — and sometimes controversial — holiday lighting display should be ready for a Thanksgiving night debut. Babick is presently laying the wiring that powers the dozens of...

It's hard to categorize the congregation of dozens of toddlers in furry animal costumes as "spooky," but we somehow doubt Halloween purists would protest. The Village Shops' annual Trick-or-Treat festivities brought hundreds of parents and candy-craving kids out yesterday afternoon,...

Halloween has become something of a warm-up for local holiday decoration enthusiasts as they prepare for that Superbowl of lawn ornamentation called Christmas. So we thought we'd do a quick rundown of the best, and most frighteningly executed, of...