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Today's News

  • Coast to coast with the Evergreen Chorale

    “From California, to the New York Island/From the redwood forest, to the Gulf Stream waters/This land was made for you and me.” The Evergreen Chorale is embracing Woody Guthrie’s sentiments in “This Land is Your Land” in the upcoming concerts “Take Me Home, Songs from Across America.”

    The Chorale will travel coast to coast through song, highlighting the diversity of love for our great country.

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  • Schools put 136 jobs on chopping block

    Jeffco Public Schools would cut 136 employee positions under a proposed budget rolled out May 13 that cuts $14 million over the previous year’s spending.

    Increased class sizes, higher athletic fees, fewer transportation routes and reduced choices for electives would result from the budget, which was designed in the face of massive cuts in state funding.

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  • Business group renewing push for downtown trail

    The Evergreen Downtown Business Association is dusting off a plan to put a trail through downtown along Bear Creek.

    The plan originally was created by Jefferson County Open Space and was updated as recently as 2008, according to Dean Dalvit with EVStudio. Dalvit serves on a committee formed by the business association to work on making the trail happen.

    The committee has been named the Heart of Evergreen Revitalization Organization, or HERO for short.

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  • Fixture at EHS retires in a Flash

    Lee Mayranen came by his nickname, “Flash,” pretty easily.

    Mayranen, the facility manager at Evergreen High School, was dubbed Flash by a teacher years ago because of how quickly he walks around the building and how he takes care of things, well, in a flash.

    He’s retiring from Jeffco Public Schools in June. He spent 34 years with the district, 17 of them at EHS. Flash was honored May 13 for his years of service to the school at the seniors’ end-of-the-year assembly. He was named an honorary member of the 2010 graduating class.

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  • Evergreen Metropolitan District to begin water-main flushing

    The Evergreen Metropolitan District will begin the annual water-main flushing program the first week of June and continue through the summer.

    Affected areas will be Tanoa, El Pinal, Wah Keeney Park, Hiwan Hills and Hiwan. The purpose of water-main flushing is to remove fine particles that settle in the water mains that cause color, taste and odor issues.

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  • Daly seeking re-election to RTD board

    This month, Regional Transportation District board member Bruce Daly has begun campaigning for re-election by collecting signatures at Park-n-Rides in Ken-Caryl, Conifer and Evergreen.

    Daly is offering riders a fresh cup of coffee and doughnuts and a chance to talk to about transportation issues.

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  • Evergreen track team shattering records on way to state

     

          Bryn Haebe didn’t know why. Maybe it really was the running gods that told Rob Wright to alter what up to this point had been a pretty successful season for Evergreen High School’s girls 4x800 relay team.

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  • Longmont’s 7-run 8th knocks out Evergreen

     

    HIGHLANDS RANCH — Tom Aramovich always smiles when he’s on the mound. No matter if the bases are loaded and the odds are stacked against his team Aramovich, the senior pitcher from Evergreen High School, seems to keep smiling.

    But after his team lost to Longmont on May 15 by a 12-7 score in eight innings, Aramovich’s smile wasn’t so bright.

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  • Lewis-Palmer’s first-half flurry does in Cougars

    MONUMENT — Kourtney Guetlein scored a pair of first-half goals and assisted on another as top-seeded Lewis-Palmer scored a 4-2 victory over Evergreen in the second round of the 4A girls soccer tournament on May 15.

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  • Evergreen Army captain convicted of lesser charges in deaths of Iraqi civilians

    An Army captain from Evergreen who was accused of ordering Iraqi police officers to kill two civilians was convicted this week on charges of negligence and reckless endangerment but acquitted of two counts of premeditated murder.

    Carl Bjork, 28, who previously was awarded a Bronze Star for his heroism overseas, reportedly received a “reprimand” and will forfeit a third of his salary for one year. The maximum sentence could have been seven years in prison, a dishonorable discharge, and/or loss of his entire salary.

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