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Today's News

  • Fire board to hold special meeting

    The Evergreen Fire Protection District board will hold a special meeting at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3, at fire department headquarters, 1802 Bergen Parkway.

    The purpose is to hold an executive session to discuss personnel matters. The meeting will be closed to the public, and no other matters of business will be discussed.

    Under Colorado law, all public meetings are open with the exception of certain meetings called to discuss personnel or real estate matters. 

     

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  • Fire board to hold special meeting

    The Evergreen Fire Protection District board will hold a special meeting at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3, at fire department headquarters, 1802 Bergen Parkway.

    The purpose is to hold an executive session to discuss personnel matters. The meeting will be closed to the public, and no other matters of business will be discussed.

    Under Colorado law, all public meetings are open with the exception of certain meetings called to discuss personnel or real estate matters.

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  • Solitaries defend their winter territory

    It looks like this may be a good year for winter birds. There is a bumper crop of “berries” on the Rocky Mountain cedar trees in our area and a heavy yield of cones on the blue spruce and Douglas fir trees. Townsend’s solitaires have already moved into the area to feast on blue berries on cedar trees, and it is highly probable that crossbills will discover the spruce and Douglas fir crop before the winter is over.

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  • And the birds still sing

    As most of the readers of this column know, my dear husband, Bill, passed away on Nov. 19. Since that time the Canyon Courier has been most helpful to me in many ways, including reprinting past columns for several weeks. I am most grateful for their many kindnesses and continuing support.

    Now, I must go on with my life without my dearest companion, and that includes resuming this column. I also most sincerely thank every reader who has sent me condolences.

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  • Crime and quality-of-life quiz

    To kick off 2009, we put together a quiz based on citizen questions and some crime/quality-of-life problems we encounter regularly in Jeffco. We invite you to take the quiz and see if you know the best way to handle the following scenarios.

    Q: You want to teach your young child to stay away from adults who could harm him or her. What’s a good phrase to help them remember?

    a. “Trust no one”

    b. “Say no to strangers”

    c. “Check first before you go anywhere with anyone”

    ANSWER: C

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  • The strange, strange history of picking senators

    The 2008 presidential election created four vacancies in the U.S. Senate: Barack Obama and Joe Biden left open seats in Illinois and Delaware; the new secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, opened up a spot in New York; and of course, Sen. Ken Salazar was nominated as secretary of the interior, paving the way for Gov. Bill Ritter to appoint Michael Bennet, former head of the Denver Public Schools.

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  • Faster way sought to solve transit woes

    Deteriorating bridges across the state, congestion that robs us of time, declining gas taxes because cars are more efficient, and an economy on the fritz. What’s a state to do? If Gov. Bill Ritter, state Sen. Dan Gibbs and state Rep. Joe Rice have their way, we’ll go faster.

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  • Change in law would devastate liquor stores

    I have been a businessman in Evergreen since 1962. Evergreen Drug Company was an important institution in the history of Evergreen. During 2005 I became frustrated because of the burdensome managed-care regulations, third-party prescriptions and shrinking profit margins and chose to close Evergreen Drug. The same situation happened to most independently owned drugstores, and consequently chain stores have taken over the prescription business.

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  • Kittredge cottage to become new feed store

    A mom-and-daughter team of three has purchased a rustic, one-story cottage in Kittredge and will open a new ranch-oriented supply store sometime this spring in the 2,000-square-foot space.

    Co-owner Lynette Raymond said she envisioned “a lot of tack, pet supplies, grain, supplements and water tanks — sort of a Murdoch’s on a much smaller scale.”

    It will be called Canyon Tack and Feed. In past lives, the cabin has been a cabinet shop and real estate agency.

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  • Bear Creek Marketplace wants to get back in a jam

    Bear Creek Marketplace in Kittredge closed its doors last Friday, but not because of the poor economy.

    In fact, sales at the store were up every month since it opened July 4, 2008. For owner Jim Kenney, the café became an issue of the tail wagging the dog.

    When he opened the café, it was to supplement his successful jam and jelly business. But the café became successful in its own right, and running both businesses just became too much.

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