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Today's News

  • Model T show transports Hiwan Museum back in time

    A visitor to the Hiwan Homestead Museum on Saturday might have sworn he’d been transported back to the early 20th century, as cars, costumes and political agendas harkened back to those earlier days.

    The Ford Model T Centennial Festival featured nine Model Ts and one Model A in the museum parking lot, where spectators could inspect each car inside and out, take photos and talk to the owners. One car’s front license plate went so far as to declare, “If this car gets any older, I’ll have to shoot it.”

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  • Evergreen family reaches Mount Shasta summit

    The Wilhelm family of Evergreen successfully reached the summit of Mount Shasta last week in their effort to honor Mark Wilhelm’s mother and her battle with breast cancer.

    On June 18, Wilhelm, his wife, Nancy, and son Brandon joined 30 breast cancer survivors and others affected by the disease in climbing the 14,162-foot peak in Northern California

    "I would like to thank the community, friends and family for their support,"

    Mark Wilhelm said. "It was a fantastic experience, emotionally and spiritually,

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  • Proposed building projects alarm Buchanan Park neighbors

    A neighborhood group is up in arms about the magnitude of the proposed unfunded structural amenities and parking lots described in the master plan for Buchanan Park in North Evergreen.

    A concept drawing shows a community center complex with three buildings, an outdoor amphitheater, a picnic pavilion, festival grounds and parking for dozens of cars, northeast of the existing ball fields.

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  • Rocky Mountain Log Furniture sets up shop in Evergreen

    When Evergreen resident Ann Verzeletti decided she wanted out of the oil business in 2004, she decided it would be a “cute, semi-retirement” occupation to own a store that sold handcrafted log furniture.

    But one shop turned into three stores plus a studio on Bryant Drive in Evergreen, along with four carpenters. Rocky Mountain Log Furniture produces as many as five beds, five dressers and six nightstands a week from handpicked, long-dead aspen trees gnawed by elk and pocked with knotholes.

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  • Area has plenty of fishing hot spots

    Comedian Steven Wright once said, "There’s a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot."

    With summertime in full swing and the water levels of local creeks and rivers running at volumes rarely seen, the desire to get on shore with a rod and a reel is probably nibbling at every angler.

    Here’s how – hopefully – not to be an idiot.

    Where to go?

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  • Ex-EHS teacher guilty of sex assault

    Former Evergreen High music teacher William Eisenman, on trial for 13 sexual assault counts involving sexual relations with two students, was found guilty June 24 of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust.

    He also was convicted of providing alcohol to a minor but was acquitted of one count of unlawful sexual contact. He faces a mandatory prison term of eight to 24 years in prison, and possibly life behind bars. A sentencing date had yet to be set.

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  • Legislators should read the constitution, too

    I remember Michael McConnell, my constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago, opening a textbook with a picture of the members of the Supreme Court on the inside cover. “What’s wrong with this?” he asked.

    At first blush, it makes sense that a book on the Constitution would have a picture of the highest judges in the land. But to McConnell, the photo represented a fundamental misunderstanding about the constitution: namely, only courts have the ability to read and interpret our greatest law.

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  • Poison ivy poses an annoying, itchy hazard

    Summer weather is finally here, with all its outdoor activities. Hiking, birding, botanizing, camping, boating, swimming, climbing and exploring the backcountry are all part of summer’s pleasures. However, there are hazards in the outdoors that everyone should be aware of.

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  • Growing friends one landscape at a time

    When Dave Thomas, owner of Sundance Gardens and Landscaping, drives through Evergreen subdivisions such as Hiwan, he sees trees and bushes that he planted as many as 30 years ago.

    Both the trees he’s planted and the friends he’s made have grown since the company got its start back in 1978. It began as a landscaping business, and Thomas added the garden center in 1988 at the corner of Highway 74 and Meadow Drive.

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  • Rodeo spotlight shines on Shirley

    Tim Shirley admits he can’t help but look.

    Call it an addiction and a validation of years of backbreaking work.

    The Conifer resident came into the Evergreen Rodeo ranked No. 15 in the world in bareback riding, the highest he’s ever been ranked this late in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association season.

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