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A Flatland Flight of Fancy for 420 Day

Some may be celebrating an unofficial holiday right about now. So Flatland has decided to take some fictionalized creative liberties to mark 420 Day.

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Proposed Freight House District Apartment Project Backtracks Size

(Updated May 7: The developer of the planned Tracks 215 apartment deal lost his national partner this week but did obtain local tax incentives in his quest to build the $52.4 million project in the Freight House District. Vince Bryant of 3-D development told the Planned Industrial Expansion Authority board today that Greystar, a major…

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Robert Altman and Julie Christie on the set of "McCabe and Mrs. Miller."

Art House Extra: John McGrath Recommends ‘McCabe and Mrs. Miller’

Flatland producer John McGrath recommends “McCabe and Mrs. Miller,” an idiosyncratic Western directed by Kansas City native Robert Altman.

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A completed puzzle of a farm landscape.

Primetime for Puzzles? A Global Pandemic

Forget toilet paper, the world is running low on jigsaw puzzles. In a recent interview with NPR, Carol Glazer, president of Massachusetts puzzle and family game company Ceaco, shared details about the company’s spike in sales that she never saw coming. “Around the second week of March, we noticed sales at one of our largest…

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Strang Depot (1930s)

Securing the Cornerstone of the Johnson County Land Boom

The Overland Park Historical Society is moving into arguably the most historic building in Overland Park – the 1906 depot built by railroad entrepreneur William Strang, Jr.

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