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Today's News

  • Evergreen leaves its mark at state swimming

    THORNTON — Jeanne Godaire didn't know exactly what she was getting this season, but the Evergreen High School girls swimming coach quickly found out. Now, the entire state knows.

     

    Behind two more state titles from Lexie Malazdrewicz, a state championship from Lindsay Morrow and a record-setting 400 freestyle relay team, the Lady Cougars capped the best season in school history with a second-place finish at the 4A state girls swimming championships Feb. 11 at Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center.

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  • Candidates sought for three seats on Indian Hills fire board

    Three board seat are up for election this year in the Indian Hills Fire Protection District, and self-nominations are being accepted.
    The election will be done by mail-in ballot. Two of the seats will be for full four-year terms; one is for a partial two-year term.
    Residents interested in running must complete a self-nomination and acceptance form, which is available by contacting Dana Retterer, designated election official, at 303-674-0800 or dretterer@tnclaw.com. Completed forms should be returned to Retterer by 5 p.m. March 2.

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  • Crash closes I-70 westbound for two hours Thursday morning

    A pickup collided with a tanker truck on westbound I-70 at Lookout Mountain about 7 a.m. Thursday, closing all westbound lanes for two hours.

    It took about 10 minutes for the Highland Rescue Team to extricate the driver from the pickup, which landed upside down on the road. He was transported to St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, said Chris Walling, a paramedic with Highland Rescue of Lookout Mountain.  

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  • Planning board OKs expansion of Lookout Mountain church

    The Jeffco planning commission has approved the highly controversial expansion of the Activation Ministries International church on Lookout Mountain.

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  • Romney prevails in local GOP caucus

    Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney won the straw poll at the GOP caucus at Wilmot Elementary School on Tuesday evening, but conservative Rick Santorum was the overall winner in the state.

    At Wilmot, one of two caucus locations in Evergreen, Romney topped the field with 53 votes, compared to 34 votes for former Pennsylvania senator Santorum in three precincts. Gingrich snagged 11 votes, and Ron Paul had 19 votes. The vote count from one of the precincts was not available.

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  • National signing day

    Looking at local athletes who signed their letters-of-intent at National Signing Day on Feb. 1, 2012.

    EVERGREEN HIGH SCHOOL
    Ceremony was held at Feb. 1 at 8 a.m. in the school's main hallway.

    Noah Ansley, Football, Ft. Lewis College
    "When Keenan (Prouty) and I went up to visit everybody was so nice to us. The campus was perfect. It seemed like a perfect fit for me," said Ansley, who will switch from quarterback to slot receiver.

    Natalie Elmgreen, Softball, Colby C.C.

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  • A ‘fracking’ consensus?

    Who would have thought with the emphasis on our state’s new-energy economy that advances in ways to extract oil and natural gas would trigger economic opportunities in the energy industry in Colorado? And yet, that is what is happening as energy companies are preparing to utilize hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to extract energy around Colorado.

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  • An editor ponders his empty nest

    A little less than five years ago, Evergreen Newspapers had a sudden opening for a photo editor. Though I’ve never had kids myself, that week I experienced a taste of what it must be like.
    Two students of whom I was particularly fond had recently moved to the East Coast, and I was fairly certain that either would hurry back to join our team. And therein lay the dilemma: Who would come home, and whom would we go on missing?

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  • Running through the lore of roadrunner history

    The greater roadrunner, which has been seen for the past few months at Dinosaur Ridge, has been an interesting visitor.
    Although they are regular residents in the southeast corner of Colorado, they seldom go north of that. They are essentially desert birds and are found all across the desert Southwest. That little corner of our state is the only place where they apparently have traditionally felt at home.

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  • Sheriff's Calls

    On the 'ex-friends and ex-family’ plan

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