She says the reality TV show was an idea that she and a business partner had decided to pitch a few years ago. The website that we linked to was meant to be the first part of a presentation to prospective producers. They were also working on a treatment, but decided to abandon the plan, she says, because she had too much else going on in her life at the time, including her duties as DARE officer at Highland Park Middle School. She says she would have gotten permission from the UP police chief before formally pitching the program. She doesn’t know why the website is still up and running.

Police Chief Gary Adams was, apparently, not aware of the website until Merritt pointed it out yesterday. Elwonger told me that her job has been placed in jeopardy by this incident, and that she’s been called in to speak with the chief and her police captain. “It was just a crazy dream idea that we were going to try,” she said.

Stay tuned.

The picture of the baby on the front is awesome. If you’d like to have a copy of it, or any other picture that appears anywhere in our paper anytime, you can visit our site here and order prints, mug, T-shirts — just about anything you could want with the image on there. I recommend putting your favorite shot on a ceramic tile mural.

70,866 pageviews, 23,712 visits, 7,273 unique visitors

Our biggest day of the month was June 25, with 3,946 pageviews. The most popular posts that day were Merritt’s battle with a fellow motorist and the mysterious Beverly book club.

To see the top keyword searches and individual posts of the month,

Top keyword searches bringing people to the blog in June:

1. park cites people blog
2. park cities blog
3. i heart gawker
4. merritt patterson
5. barack blog park cities people charles
6. park cities people
7. university park pool hours
8. “sandra crenshaw”
9. orangecup
10. fishing derby caruth park

As you can see, Merritt has made a resurgence onto this list. And this is not just a few people searching for her in name in engines. It took a couple hundred to land her at No. 4 on the list. Miles, I’m sure Merritt appreciates all your efforts.

Now, the most viewed individual posts of the month. (Remember that generally only posts with jumps or comments, or posts that get linked to through other blogs will show up, the way this is tracked):

1. /2008/06/05/showin-it-all-at-the-pool-not-always-cool
2. /2008/06/23/mad-at-the-bible-belt/
3. /2008/06/25/assault-at-the-university-park-pool/
4. /2008/06/23/someone-bears-false-witness-to-merritt/
5. /2008/06/09/one-of-my-craigslisters-makes-contact/

The same Overheardian commented on the earlier post. I take no responsibility for any of her comments.

UPDATE, 3:06 p.m.: Our staffer has confirmed that the woman pictured here is the same woman she bought turkey sliders for in Preston Center yesterday.

91,989 pageviews, 29,019 visits, 10,948 unique visitors

Pageviews were up almost 40 percent over April, which had been a record itself.

Seven different days this month nearly eclipsed our previous pageviews-in-a-day record, set by the 7th-Grade Potheads on Feb. 7. One day this month managed the feat. With a whopping 5,010 pageviews, May 21 is our new all-time champ. Continued interest in the NorthPark shooting, Erika Nazem, and the new Chick-fil-A helped to drive traffic that day.

To see the top keyword searches and individual posts of the month,

Top keyword searches bringing people to the blog in May:

1. park cities people blog
2. park cities people
3. northpark mall shooting
4. park cities blog
5. barack blog park cities people charles
6. kersten rettig - dallas
7. american idol 2008 winner
8. blog park cities people
9. shooting at northpark mall
10. highland park shooting

The dearly departed Stephanie Hutson finished No. 13 on this list,  easily outpacing Merritt Patterson, who finished at No. 19.

Now, the most viewed individual posts of the month. (Remember that generally only posts with jumps or comments, or posts that get linked to through other blogs will show up, the way this is tracked):

1. /2008/05/16/shooting-at-northpark-mall/

2. /2008/05/04/parkie-mom-is-a-billionaire-girlfriend-and-reality-tv-star/

3. /2008/05/18/more-from-the-humble-parkie-mom/
4. /2008/05/17/re-shooting-at-northpark-mall-in-dallas/

5. /2008/05/13/dear-richardson-resident-amanda-tackett/

These were just about our most popular posts ever, in terms of how many pageviews they each attracted in this one month. Any of these five would have been the top post of nearly any previous month. That’s how we did so well in May — a lot of posts, even beyond these top 5, that drew much traffic and many comments to the blog.

Let’s aim for 100,000 pageviews in June.

This Park Cities guy is still married so you’d have to sneak around with him but he’s searching for the “real deal.” The real deal is a petite woman between the ages of 21-30. But don’t worry ladies. If you’re older and bigger, this married man is simply looking for a non-prostituting white female from 35-50 years old.

There’s a cheater for every type of woman!

Right now Griffin has 216 but before it was posted yesterday there were only 52. Vote, vote, vote!

You can vote everyday one time. The contest ends July 31.