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Today's News

  • Evergreen golf course, restaurant opening with new management

    Soon after the snow melts from the Evergreen Golf Course, it will be opening with a new manager.

    Susie Helmerich says she will be managing “everything golf” at the pro shop and course for Denver City and County Parks, which has taken over the operation.

    “Our focus here is to be guest-oriented, to provide great service,” she said.

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  • Ballots head to voters in fire district recall election

    Ballots for the recall election are being mailed this week to residents of the Evergreen Fire Protection District. 

    As district residents decide on whether, and how, to cast their votes, they are relying on information presented on the mail-in ballots, on candidate profiles posted on the Canyon Courier website — and other related articles published in the newspaper.

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  • Toddling down the bunny trail

    Toddlers ruled at Saturday’s Easter egg hunt on the grounds of the Evergreen Elks Lodge.

     

    Dressed in her Easter finery, 2-year-old Ginny Pihlak collected eggs with hidden treasures, with help from 16-month-old Katie Lundquist.

    Other little ones scampered on the lodge grounds where 1,000 eggs had been placed for each series of hunts for various age groups.

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  • Blast from the past: Epic blizzard of 2003 can provide some needed perspective

    “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.

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  • Memories still scorch a year later

    A fellow editor recently referred to me as an “excrement magnet”— and those of you familiar with editors know that this phrase has been modified for a family-friendly publication. I have found myself at ground zero for stories ranging from the JonBenet Ramsey slaying to the school shootings at Columbine and Platte Canyon high schools and Deer Creek Middle School.

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  • Elusive Townsend’s solitaires guard their juniper berry stash

    We moved into this house on April 19, 1965. That’s nearly 48 years ago, but many of you may recall the article I wrote about trying to find a pygmy owl that we heard calling that first night.

    Unfortunately, I do not hear pygmy owls calling as much as I used to. Their call is much more often heard than the owls are seen, for these tiny owls can disappear in a clump of pine needles or other foliage, and they are ventriloquists. They are not where you think they are.

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  • Victims of Lower North Fork Fire gather at Capitol on one-year anniversary

    Victims of the Lower North Fork Fire packed the state Capitol on the blaze’s one-year anniversary to appeal to Gov. John Hickenlooper and Colorado Attorney General John Suthers for compensation for damages.

    March 26 marked the one-year anniversary of the start of the wildfire, which burned 4,100 acres, destroyed two dozen homes and claimed three lives. The fire erupted when a state-overseen prescribed burn re-ignited in high winds 6 miles south of Conifer.

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  • SHERIFF'S CALLS

    Making the case for caller-ID

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  • Party for Parks planned April 5 at Red Rocks

    Three organizations are joining forces to produce a public fund-raiser to support programs that connect children and families to nature. The Party for Parks will be held at the Red Rocks Visitor Center from 6 to 10 p.m. April 5. Tickets are $50 at www.jeffcooutdoors.org.  
    The Jefferson County Outdoors Foundation, the Denver Mountain Parks Association and Great Outdoors Colorado are sponsoring the gala, which celebrates multiple anniversaries. Proceeds benefit nonprofit Jeffco Outdoors,  formerly known as the Jeffco Open Space Foundation.

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  • Paradise reclaimed

    When development threatened to turn their paradise into parking lots, the people of Jefferson County decided to preserve the beautiful landscapes they treasured before open land became subdivision material.

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