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Today's News

  • Rustic Point furniture boasts a great 2008

    Rustic Point furniture and gift store had a great 2008 and is expecting 2009 to go just as well.

    “We had a great year,” said owner Sara MacBean of the store, which is in the HONKA building in the El Rancho Town Center. “Truly, I think a large part is that we had our first full year in this location.” The store had been located on Meadow Drive.

    MacBean says the store has created a following of customers, who stop in to see the furniture, gift items and home accessories. She said people are always coming in to see what’s new.

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  • With CEOs, you get what you pay for

    Although the title “CEO” contains only three letters, it has become a four-letter word. Almost all businesses have one, but not all deserve the scorn and disrespect the title has taken on lately. As with most things, the deeds of the very worst get a lot of publicity and tend to contaminate many innocent leaders who share the title, but not the dastardly deeds.

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  • I-70 lane to close at Floyd Hill

    The Colorado Department of Transportation will close one lane of eastbound Interstate 70 on Tuesday, Feb. 24, from 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.

    The closure will start from the bottom of Floyd Hill and continue to the top, allowing crews to clean culverts, drains, signs and delineators.

    The speed limit will be reduced to 45 mph, and minor traffic delays are expected.

     

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  • Town hall meeting planned Thursday

    An Evergreen Town Hall meeting will be held Thursday, Feb. 19, at Evergreen Middle School from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

    State Rep. Cheri Gerou and state Sen. Dan Gibbs will be on hand to discuss legislative issues with their constituents. Also, the concept of a regular town hall gathering to address local issues will be discussed.

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  • Jeffco commissioners ax internal audit department

    The Jefferson County commissioners eliminated the county’s internal audit department on Feb. 17, citing the need “to reduce administrative overhead costs” and saying the department’s functions were duplicative.

    But the now-former internal auditor said that’s not the reason at all.

    Susan Johnson, who lost her job along with her assistant, says it’s all about accountability.

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  • Cougars fire on all cylinders, rout Lobos

    EVERGREEN — It probably won’t be the plot of the next X-Files movie, but Scott Haebe knows he saw something strange this season. And it happened again Feb. 11.

    “I have no answers for this,” the longtime Evergreen boys coach said after the Cougars trounced their rival Conifer Lobos. “We’ve played our two best games of the year against them. That’s unusual.”

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  • Conifer girls sweep Evergreen

    EVERGREEN — Good teams are like art museums. They represent talent and inspire outsiders to dream of ways of finding a weakness to plunder.

    Against rival Evergreen, the Conifer Lobos got a long dose of physical, grinding girls basketball in a tournament-like atmosphere. And they passed with flying colors – even if those colors might be black and blue.

    The Lobos made their one run count in the second quarter as they built and maintained a comfortable lead Feb. 11 for a 46-34 Class 4A Jefferson County League victory before a packed house.

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  • Saying a final goodbye to my twenties

    When I wake up this morning, I’ll be a new man.

    I won’t be a 20-something anymore. I will be 30.

    Admittedly, it’s still a little strange seeing that in print. I feel like I’ve been in my twenties forever, so, moving into a new chapter of my life will take a little time to adjust to.

    As I take time to look back, I can see that my twenties were filled with many big moments in my life.

    Here’s just a few:

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  • Majestic eagles growing in numbers

    Aside from the usual nuthatches, chickadees, woodpeckers, siskins and juncos, there haven’t been many unusual birds around this winter. I have had several Townsend’s solitaries reported, crows and magpies, and a few red-winged blackbirds, but nothing really unusual or exciting. The red-winged blackbirds seem to be a remnant of birds that never left last fall. They have stayed on at the lake because there are plenty of feeders available in the area, and they return to the lake every evening to roost in the cattails overnight.

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  • Home sales still in the slow lane

    With the economy on the rocks and the job picture uncertain, 2008 turned out to be one of the slowest years in recent history for the Evergreen-Conifer residential real estate market.

    Homeowners can take some consolation in the fact that prices in general dropped only 3 percent on average for the year. But the average selling price of $415,000 was slightly lower than the average selling price of $418,000 in 2005.

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