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  • EAS+Y creates club to get greener

    Evergreen’s Alliance for Sustainability started the way many groups of its kind do: over dinner.

    “A bunch of us saw that there wasn't a group that supported or championed sustainability in the Evergreen area,” said Tupper Briggs, EAS+Y’s treasurer. “So we thought, rather than being a fringe group of radical preservationists, we wanted to be a mainstream voice for doing things to promote sustainability.”

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  • Firs will fly at second annual Festival of Trees

    The second annual Festival of Trees is ready to delight this weekend, and if trees alone don't yuck up your yule, the festival is coupled with the 13th annual Holiday Wine Tasting.

    The trees will be on display and open for bids from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at The Barn at Marshdale, and for $40 attendees can also enjoy the wine tasting from 4:30 to 8 p.m. Attendees will be able to vote for their favorite trees and submit silent bids to take one home.

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  • Fees for fire inspections to increase

    A fire inspection is mandatory for new construction in commercial and residential structures, and that review is about to cost more.

    The Evergreen Fire Protection District board granted Fire Marshal Frank Dearborn's request to increase fees for all commercial and residential fire safety inspections at the board meeting Nov. 12. Currently most fees hover around $75, but with the increase, from $5 to $100 will be added starting in January.

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  • Evergreen picked as a top retirement spot

    Evergreen retirees and real estate agents say it’s a no-brainer that topretirements.com, which works with USA Today, ranked Evergreen as one of the top five best small towns to retire to.

    Evergreen retirees say it’s a great place to live with easy access to outdoor activities, great small shops and friendly people, and they can’t imagine spending their leisure years anywhere else.

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  • Evergreen eateries honor vets, active soldiers

    To commemorate Veterans Day on Monday, three Evergreen restaurants offered free meals to vets and active military to honor their service to our country.

    Da Kind Soups in downtown, plus El Senor Sol and Illegal Burger near El Rancho, participated in honoring the military heroes.

    At Da Kind, workers wore red, white and blue ribbons on their shirts to commemorate the day as they chatted with customers. One table was set as a tribute to servicemen and -women who were missing in action or were prisoners of war.

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  • FLOODING ROUNDUP: Cactus Jack’s sees light at end of tunnel

    There’s light at the end of the tunnel for both Cactus Jack’s and owner Gary Mitchell.

    The iconic restaurant and bar at the corner at Highways 74/73 that was extensively damaged in the September flooding is expected to be open the first week of December.

    Mitchell, who broke his leg while cleaning out the restaurant soon after the flood, should be walking again by then. He’s still on crutches.

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  • Construction of trail linking Evergreen Lake Park, downtown moving forward

    September's flooding did not delay the plans for a more navigable trail link between Evergreen Lake Park and downtown.

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  • Commissioners still debating property-tax increase

    As the final vote on the county’s budget approaches, questions remain about the fiscal future of Jeffco, and whether the commissioners will support a property-tax increase.
    County Commissioners Casey Tighe and Don Rosier got into a heated exchange over whether the proposed 2014 county budget represents a step forward in solving Jeffco’s fiscal woes during a final budget meeting Nov. 8.

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  • Elk Creek voters approve property-tax increase

    Residents of the Elk Creek Fire Protection District overwhelmingly approved an increase in the district’s property tax in the Nov. 5 mail-in election.

    Measure 4A, which increases Elk Creek’s levy by 2.5 mills, won the approval of 58 percent of district residents who cast ballots, with 42 percent opposed.

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