Juliana Garcia

Mask Choice 4 Kids says on its Facebook page that its mission is to “give children and parents the CHOICE to wear masks in school.”

A COVID-19 case at Trail Ridge Middle School, in the Gardner-Edgerton School District, is keeping most 7th and 8th graders out of class until Tuesday, Sept. 7. As of Aug. 31, the district had 231 students in quarantine.

Johnson County school districts began reporting their first COVID-19 data for the 2021-22 school year this week. All four northern Johnson County districts are each reporting dozens of students either with confirmed positive cases or in quarantine.

Individuals will now be required to wear a mask inside most indoor public spaces in Prairie Village, following the city council's adoption of a mask mandate Monday night. Businesses could also require customers to show proof of vaccination.

Although Johnson County has no countywide mask mandate in place, the city of Prairie Village is drafting its own ordinance requiring masks to be worn in most indoor spaces.

A federal initiative will investigate historic sites of boarding schools for Native American children, but it's unclear how that will affect the Shawnee Indian Mission in Fairway, Kansas.

A deal to redevelop the former Mission Mall site is at risk if developers don't pay back delinquent real estate taxes. Construction on the project halted in March 2020 and has yet to resume.

Researchers are conducting a study at the Kansas State Historical Site looking for unmarked graves and human remains that could suggest more about who is buried there and when they were interred.

After a new policy deemed the district's Native American mascots to be offensive, Shawnee Mission North students officially voted in the bison as the new mascot.

Homestead Assisted Living locations in Johnson County reopened visitation after nearly a year-long restriction due to COVID-19.