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Today's News

  • Where have all the grosbeaks gone?

    Probably the question I am most frequently asked by people who have been feeding birds in the area for many years is, “Where have all the grosbeaks gone?” I wish I could give them a good answer, and I also wish I could bring them back.

    First, I try to ascertain that they are referring to the evening grosbeaks because we have other grosbeaks in the area. Usually they describe them as the fairly big birds that are yellow, white and black, and used to come to feeders in droves.

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  • Library service continues to grow

    With recent news of libraries closing, hours being cut and services being reduced around the Denver area and the nation, it’s important not to lose sight of the growing need for library services in the community.

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  • Suddenly, our state is going to pot

    When Colorado voters passed Amendment 20 in 2000 to legalize the use of medical marijuana, it would have been hard to predict that the program would explode to such an extent in 2009 that Atlantic Monthly would use the term “ganjaprenuership” to explain what is going on here in its Aug. 26 issue.

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  • Cougars dominate

    Nine is arguably the loneliest number on the scoreboard.

    Sure, nine gets to be on the right side of the scoreboard all the time — 19, 39, 49 — but rarely do the lights on the left get to burn a proud 9 in the presence of a crowd.

    The number nine got a big hug Dec. 2 from Evergreen.

    The 10th-ranked Lady Cougars scored like they were sugared up on Pop Rocks and Monster energy drinks en route to a season-opening 92-32 Class 4A nonleague victory over Battle Mountain.

    “We got really good shots,” Cougars coach Ali Meyers said.

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  • Lady Cougars ready to make a splash

    Evergreen is known for many things, but the high school’s girls swim team is not normally one of them.

    Well, those girls are out to change that this year, and they may just be good enough to make some serious noise in Class 4A Jefferson County.

    Fresh off a fourth-place finish in the league last year and a top-20 finish in the state, coach Jeanne Godaire is looking to not only equal those achievements, but better them in this, her third year at the school.

    “We’re hoping to get to where we place in the top-10 at state,” Godaire said.

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  • Local nonprofits seeking human popsicles

    Here’s a fun way to say Happy New Year:

    Put on a bathing suit and dive into a frozen lake in front of a cheering crowd of fully dressed onlookers.

    That way, the rest of the year — or at least the winter — should feel like a trip to the beach.

    If you can’t do that, consider pledging some money for someone such as Kristina Halstead to do it. Halstead is planning to dive for the second year in a row.

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  • Detlefs court date continued to Jan. 7

    The Dec. 4 arraignment of an Evergreen man accused of vehicular assault and DUI in connection with a car-bicycle accident last summer has been continued until Jan. 7.

    Jeffrey Scott Detlefs, 57, was arrested Aug. 16 after his vehicle collided with a bicyclist on the approach to eastbound I-70 at the Evergreen exit. The State Patrol report said Detlef’s Lexus drove over the white line on the shoulder and collided with the bicycle rider.

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  • Echoes of caring: Nonprofit helps area residents meet basic needs during the holidays

    When it’s giving season in Evergreen, a lot of people think of Evergreen Christian Outreach, a local nonprofit that since 1986 has been distributing food and clothing assistance to hundreds of area families each month.

    EChO is mainly a food bank, but families in need can also obtain clothing, household items, and Christmas and birthday gifts for kids.

    The office and food bank are at the campus of the Church of the Transfiguration on Highway 74 east of downtown Evergreen. EChO is supported by churches all over Evergreen.

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  • Foothills Fire seeks paid chief for first time

    The Foothills Fire Protection District, which covers about 1,500 households in the I-70 corridor, mostly east of Evergreen, is advertising for its first paid fire chief since the organization was created in 1997 from three smaller fire districts.

    Foothills Fire this year moved its headquarters from Lookout Mountain to the station at Rainbow Hills, across from the RTD parking lot and the El Rancho business center turnoff on Bergen Parkway.

    The district currently employs three people in addition to the acting volunteer unpaid chief, Brad Danek.

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  • Foothills fire station comes in $80,000 over budget

    The cost of the new headquarters of the Foothills Fire Rescue headquarters on Rainbow Hill Road in Evergreen came in $80,000 over budget, but district officials believe they still got their money’s worth.

    The expansion and remodel near El Rancho was originally budgeted at $60,000, but the total cost was more like $140,000, including $32,000 for the electrical work alone, the district revealed in a letter to its members in late November.

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