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This year’s Evergreen High School marching band is the little band that could.

Its motto easily could be, “I think I can; I think I can.”

After overcoming some difficult challenges over the past few years, the band and color guard with 62 students are going to the state competition in Grand Junction this weekend for the first time in six years.

And all it took was a little confidence, according to Wiley Cruse, the school’s new instrumental music teacher.

Ruth Crosson of Evergreen has had a lifelong love of dogs — so much so that she has collected more than 700 miniature dog figurines.

Crosson, 92, put half her collection on display at Green Ridge Meadow Apartments on Saturday as her farewell to the animals she knows so well. She put out pieces that were less breakable than others, so children could touch them.

She says that, at her age, she needs to find a new home for the animals, and she’s hoping that the Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls and Toys will take the entire collection.

Former Foothills fire chief John Kilpatrick has filed a lawsuit in federal district court, asking for $500,000 plus attorney fees for various damages, including loss of wages and benefits.

The board hired Kilpatrick to be its full-time chief at a salary of $65,000 a year as of Jan. 1, 2010, but he was fired without warning at a special meeting of the board of directors on Aug. 30.

Kilpatrick was accused of improperly authorizing to himself payments for insurance and overtime, consisting of $2,372, and $2,500, respectively.

A bow hunter legally killed an elk on a fairway at the Hiwan Golf Club on Oct. 11 with the approval of golf course officials, infuriating some of the homeowners who live on the fringe of the golf course.

“I think it's like hunting fish in a barrel. They are tame. They don't know. … We chose to live here with the wildlife, but we did not choose to live in a hunting range,” said Gloria Bradfield, whose property borders the golf course.