Runners to compete in Main Street Mile on Saturday

Runners will be heading to Main Street this Saturday for the annual Main Street Mile, a one-mile race for families as well as competitive runners. The race is in its sixth year. It begins at 11 a.m. Main Street and Linwood and goes south to ...

Street closures scheduled for music festival and race

The Rockfest music festival on Saturday will close a number of streets around Penn Valley Park. In addition, there will be a race in the southern part of Midtown. Rockfest promoters expect more than 50,000 people at the largest one-day music ...

Three races will impact weekend traffic

The map for the 2013 AIDS walk. Three separate races will impact traffic in Brookside/Waldo, the Country Club Plaza and Downtown on April 27 and 28, the city is warning. On Saturday, April 27, the AIDS Walk will begin at 10 a.m. in Theis Park. ...

Changes in marathon notifications, closures advance at city hall

Police cars blocked the street in front of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art last month during the North Face Endurance Challenge. After several years of complaints from residents and businesses about streets being closed, the city has developed ...

Changes in the works for marathon, race notifications

The North Face Endurance Challenge on November 17 started at Theis Park in front of the Nelson–Atkins Museum of Art and took participants up through Midtown to the Northeast and back down to Theis Park. Some Midtowners complained blocked streets ...

Run on Thanksgiving benefits Pilgrim’s Chapel youth programs

The Pilgrim Run, a 5K race in Hyde Park, benefits the Pilgrim Center at 3801 Gillham Road. The public chapel is on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1941 as the Pilgrim Church for the Deaf, it provided religious services and ...