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Today's News

  • Cougars headed to state

    Just how much does Evergreen head softball coach Scott Haebe believe in Breeze Phillips? He didn’t pitch her in the first game of the 4A Region 5 softball tournament on Oct. 16 at Four Diamonds Complex in Colorado Springs. But there’s a method to his madness.

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  • Roundup: Jensen, Lindsay team up to place third at state tennis tourney

    PUEBLO — Steve Jensen and Brad Lindsay did something Oct. 16 that they weren’t able to do a week earlier at the 4A Region 1 tennis tournament — that’s beat Colorado Academy’s No. 4 doubles team.

    The 7-6, 7-6 win at the 4A state championship at Pueblo City Park sewed up third place for the Evergreen duo, the only members of the Cougars to medal at this year’s meet.

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  • Grass fire contained to 2 acres in Indian Hills

    A grass fire in Indian Hills on Tuesday is a reminder that even though it’s mid-October, it’s still summertime dry and wildfires remain a danger.

    The 2-acre fire broke out about 4 p.m. near the 5200 block of Parmalee Gulch Road in Indian Hills, according to Indian Hills Fire Chief Don Schoenbein.

    “The cause of the fire is still under investigation,” Schoenbein said. “We believe it was human caused, but we don’t think it was intentionally set.”

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  • Casting about for a meaningful message

    A foundry is an alchemical studio where metal is melted and art is created. Long ago, an opportunity presented itself to assist in pourings for sculptor Raphael Martini. My friends and I were eager to participate. The process was hot, heavy and riveting. When an Evergreen neighbor started building a sculpture studio in his backyard, I was intrigued.

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  • Hey, EPRD: Let the sunshine in

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  • Remember, raccoons are wild animals

    Well, I’ve done it again. Once a klutz, always a klutz. Seems like every few years, lately, I have to go tumbling around, either spraining or breaking something.

    This time it’s a broken right wrist. How these things happen so quickly amazes me, but of course, if you had time to think about it, they wouldn’t happen.

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  • Sheriff's Calls

    Bring in ZZ Top for questioning  

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  • Evergreen High briefly locked down after student attacked

    By Vicky Gits and Deb Hurley Brobst
    Staff Writers
    Evergreen High School students were on lockdown for about 10 minutes between noon and 2 p.m. Tuesday after a Conifer High School senior allegedly attacked a student, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office. The suspected assailant, who is 17, then left the school, and authorities were still looking for him at 3 p.m.

    The victim was not seriously hurt.

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  • A march to excellence

    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.

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  • EASY wins grant for home energy-saving contest

    An Evergreen group that promotes sustainability and energy conservation has received an $11,680 grant from the Governor's Energy Office to stage a community-wide, heat-related utility-bill reduction contest.

    The brainchild of Ginny Ades and the Evergreen Alliance for Sustainability, the contest is called “Biggest Loser — Watt and Therm Edition.”

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