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  • Postal annex in Bergen Park closes

    The postal-carrier annex at 1222 Bergen Parkway across from the King Soopers shopping center has been closed abruptly as a cost-saving measure. Some 25 employees were reassigned to the main Evergreen post office on Evergreen Parkway and Bryant Drive.

    Local mail will continue to be delivered six days a week as usual.

    The change means that customers will have to call the main post office at 303-679-9861 if they have trouble with mail delivery, instead of the previous phone number (303-670-0213), which was disconnected as of Saturday, Aug. 13.

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  • Questions surround fire board amid chief's departure

    After four years as Evergreen’s fire chief, Garry DeJong is preparing to start a new job in Idaho, as questions continue to surround the reasons for his decision to leave — a move that was not entirely his idea.

    During the regular monthly meeting of the Evergreen Fire Protection District board on Aug. 9, DeJong officially announced his resignation and his new appointment as fire chief in Lewiston, Idaho.

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  • Picking on weeds

    Wake Up and Weed kicked off at 8:30 a.m. Saturday at Evergreen Lake, as volunteers gathered to extricate a rogues gallery of noxious invaders.

    A brunch was served to the hungry weed wackers at midmorning in the Evergreen Nature Center. The event was sponsored by the Community Weed Awareness Campaign and Evergreen Audubon.

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  • DUI checkpoint in Evergreen nets four arrests

    Four DUI arrests were made and three tickets for marijuana possession were issued on Saturday night during a Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office DUI checkpoint on Evergreen Parkway at Elk Meadow.

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  • Library board considers filters to block porn on computers

    Pornographic images may soon be blocked from computers in Jefferson County public libraries, though the textual content of websites such as those of Playboy and Penthouse may not.
    At a library study session Aug. 11, board members weighed several options in regulating Internet content, including doing nothing at all. Options include blocking only images considered pornographic or blocking pornographic websites in their entirety.
    Though library staff and board members seemed to favor filtering images, that process would have several flaws.

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  • Teen survives fall at Maxwell Falls

    A 17-year-old from Kenosha, Wis., was airlifted in a Flight for Life helicopter to St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood after taking a 25-foot fall from a cliff at Maxwell Falls on Tuesday afternoon.

     

    The teen was choppered out at the upper Maxwell Falls trailhead on Brook Forest Road about 5 miles west of Highway 73 at 3:44 p.m. A companion reached the road and called 911 at 2:18 p.m., according to Mark Techmeyer, Jeffco sheriff’s spokesman.

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  • Sheriff's Calls

    Can’t see the forest for the (fake) trees

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  • Fire Chief DeJong leaving Evergreen for Idaho

    After four years as chief of Evergreen Fire/Rescue, Garry DeJong is leaving to become fire chief of the Lewiston Fire Department in Lewiston, Idaho. His last day will be Oct. 7, when his current contract ends.

    Members of the Evergreen Fire Protection District board told the fire chief in June that his services were no longer needed and that they wanted to take the department in another direction, DeJong said.

    The idea of hiring a district manager instead of a new fire chief was mentioned, DeJong said.

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  • Sweat equity: Youth corps working on Evergreen Lake trail improvements

    The south end of Evergreen Lake is getting a much-needed makeover this summer, thanks to a crew from the Mile High Youth Corps armed with shovels, axes and wheelbarrows.

    The crew of about 12 young people ages 16 to 25 is in the area for about three weeks, from July 25 to Aug. 11, restoring the south-side trail after wear and tear from a constant stream of mountain bikers, dog walkers and hikers.

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  • Planning board rejects rule changes on short-term rentals

    Proponents of the popular list-it-yourself, vacation-rental industry suffered another setback Aug. 3 when the Jeffco planning commission rejected new short-term-rental zoning regulations.

    On a 6-1 vote, the board refused to sign off on a staff proposal that would have allowed short-term rentals with an annual review and minimal restrictions, including basic fire and safety measures. Current zoning regulations prohibit offering rentals for less than 30 days at time.

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