Today's Features

Bergen Meadow kindergartners learned about biology and life on a farm by watching eggs hatch into tiny chicks for the past few weeks.

The first chick pecked its way out of its egg on April 29, and the children were enthralled with the sight of new life.

Hatching eggs is an annual event at Bergen Meadow, and older students get excited as they relive the time when the eggs hatched in their kindergarten classrooms.

Peggy Miller, the school’s principal, even donned a chicken hat that morning to signal the event.

“We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard.”

— Douglas Mawson

Here’s the thing about things — they can always be worse.

Quigley is Evergreen Meadows’ new best friend.

The 4-year-old soft-coated Wheaten terrier saved the subdivision along Highway 73 from a wildfire on March 18. He was honored Monday night by Evergreen firefighters for his keen sense of smell and perseverance in getting his owner to walk across the backyard and find flames in a pile of dry pine needles on a neighbor’s property. The fire ignited after ashes that weren’t completely cooled had been thrown out, and the wind re-ignited them.

On March 26 of last year, hell came to 4,000 acres 6 miles south of Conifer.

As the battle to fully control the Lower North Fork Fire continued for a week, residents waited and watched as they learned about three neighbors who lost their lives and homeowners who lost everything in a blaze that was sparked when a prescribed burn escaped in high winds.