Today's News

Thanks to the vision of Al and Judy Challenger of Evergreen, the Terraces is not only using electricity, it is making its own electrical power and selling it back to Xcel Energy with a 10-kilowatt rooftop photovoltaic power plant.

The owners celebrated completion and the energy-saving future with a grand opening and open house on March 12.

A spectacular trophy home owned by a member of the Coors family will be sold to the highest bidder in an auction at the house on Lookout Mountain on Saturday April 25.

The 8,900-square-foot contemporary, at 21554 Mountsfield Drive, has five bedrooms, six bathrooms, four fireplaces, a patio and an infinity pool on 1 acre.

“It has the king-of-the-hill feel,” said real estate agent Bill Stubblefield of Evergreen, with Ali Van Westenberg of Coldwell Banker Devonshire of Cherry Creek.

The Evergreen Metro District stands to gain a possible bonus from the federal government’s economic stimulus program.

The Colorado Water Resources and

Power Development Authority has notified the district that it qualifies for a possible zero percent interest rate on $2 million the district is borrowing to build a new roof on the water treatment plant in Evergreen.

The project is competing with dozens of other project for $40 million in state money, so it is not a done deal. But officials are hopeful because work on the roof is ready to go forward.

The Evergreen Park and Recreation District board voted 4-1 to expand the weight room at the Wulf Recreation Center by sacrificing one of two racquetball courts.

“I wish that remodeling the existing space would be sufficient,” said Peter Eggers, a former avid racquetball player who now almost exclusively plays golf for recreation.

“During the 2005 bond campaign, we really did make a promise to the voters to expand the weight room,” said Allan Casey, board president. “I feel we really do need to honor it.”