Today's News

Where were you last Friday when the stars came out over Evergreen? If you were smart, or lucky, or just crazy about the cosmos, you were among the happy constellation of sky-watchers that turned out at Evergreen Lake for “Under the Milky Way,” the most elevating hour of astronomy since Carl Sagan first made “globular clusters” a household phrase.

When the final school bell rings and students are dismissed for the summer, parents are already devising ways to keep their children active.

And no, video games don’t count as an activity.

Typically, a popular sport amongst boys is our national pastime: baseball. It is without question the sport of summer.

But, the baseball season only lasts so long. Most leagues have already begun to wind down, or are already finished for the year.

An Evergreen man attacked with a 40-ounce beer bottle, an ax and a Maglite flashlight survived to tell his tale July 1.

Emily Malcik, 35, was arrested about 1:30 a.m. July 1 after deputies responded to a burglary call in the 4600 block of Blue Spruce Road. Dispatch advised the deputies en route that a male and female had both called to say the incident was actually a fight. The woman initially said she hit the man, but then changed her story to say that he had hit himself with the beer bottle, the ax and the Maglite.

I needed caffeine. I woke up feeling like my brain was in an unclean fish tank and a hundred miles away. A shower didn’t help rejuvenate my senses, and I stumbled around trying to find a shirt not wrinkled like a dead elephant’s carcass. There were none. This wasn’t all that unusual. Iron in hand, I cleared a space on my countertop and melted a hole in a $40 shirt. I looked at the bottom of the iron and then to the clock above the stove — I was running late for a meeting.