Andrew Gaug

3 days ago | johnsoncountypost.com | Andrew Gaug

Lenexa has advanced a $200 million, 75-acre mixed-use development near Kansas Highway 7 and Prairie Star Parkway. On Monday, the Lenexa Planning Commission unanimously approved the rezoning, concept plan and preliminary plan for Solera, a project featuring retail space, apartments, townhomes and duplexes.

1 week ago | johnsoncountypost.com | Andrew Gaug

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 celebrated 13 students — 10 of whom are from Johnson County schools — who Davids appointed to U.S. service academies.

1 week ago | johnsoncountypost.com | Andrew Gaug

Plans to develop a park in Shawnee aimed at cyclists received unanimous approval from the city council. On May 12, the Shawnee City Council approved a roughly $329,000 contract with a local design firm to create a master plan and market analysis study for the proposed 170-acre Rail Creek Park project. The vote was 8-0. The city council approved the contract with the Kansas City-based Vireo LLC to start work on the nine-month project.

2 weeks ago | johnsoncountypost.com | Andrew Gaug

This is graduation week around Johnson County, and while some matriculating seniors may still be shoring up plans for next year, more than 70 student-athletes from the Shawnee Mission School District now what their fall plans are. Throughout this past fall and spring, Shawnee Mission School District high school seniors, like their counterparts across the country, have been signing letters of intent announcing their plans to play sports in college.

2 weeks ago | johnsoncountypost.com | Andrew Gaug

A Lenexa business owner was sentenced to 10 years in prison for committing 14 counts of fraud, including supplying false information to secure loans meant for small businesses. On May 15, Scott W. Anderson, was sentenced in the U.S. District Court of Kansas in Kansas City, Kansas, to 10 years in federal prison for four counts of false statement in a loan application, four counts of wire fraud, and six counts of aggravated identity theft.