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Staunton is a stunner

Staunton State Park’s much-anticipated opening weekend didn’t disappoint.

“It’s been crazy getting ready for this, but seeing people happy has made all of the blood, sweat and tears worth it,” said Jennifer Anderson, the park manager. “I couldn’t have asked for the weekend to be better.”

Global-warming case was one-sided

By Howard Sperry

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Clothes encounter

Pam’s Jam a rousing success on...

By Will Petersen
For the Courier
Elli Rouse wanted to look scary.
The 11 year-old had two big streaks of eye black perfectly applied on each side of her nose. The problem? Both were accompanied by a douse of purple and red glitter on top.
Rouse and a string of other young and well-spoken volunteers, all affiliated with the Stingers Soccer Club, helped pull off the fourth annual Pam’s Jam, a round-robin soccer jamboree, at Marshdale Elementary School on May 18.

EHS runs out of rallies at...

GREELEY — The Evergreen Cougars rallied once to reach the 4A District 2 baseball finals, but couldn’t rally a second time to reach the eight-team double-elimination state tournament on May 12.
A day after inclement weather postponed their district opener against Coronado, the Cougars rallied for three runs in the final two innings to win 8-7.

Sports briefs

BOYS LACROSSE
Evergreen ousted in opening round of state playoffs by Aspen
ASPEN — Evergreen’s third straight trip to the boys lacrosse state playoffs ended like the past two — in the first round.
Host Aspen scored a 12-6 first-round victory over the Cougars on May 8 in the 4A state playoffs.
The loss ended Evergreen’s season with a 6-11 record.

BASKETBALL
Evergreen boys, girls camps scheduled for first week of June

Fellow Brownie inspires troop’s...

Sometimes Evergreen’s hometown heroes aren’t necessarily in Evergreen.

For Brownie Girl Scout Troop 3110, this year’s hometown heroes were at Children’s Hospital. The Bergen Valley third-grade girls recently honored the doctors and nurses in the hospital’s Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders who have been taking care of troop member Kaymen Story.

Our Readers Write

Veterans deserve a statue that depicts the reality of combat
Editor:
To all those who dare to bring about a controversy about the statue of a soldier holding a rifle at the veterans memorial, I have this to say:

Parents assail schools’ plan for...

The Jeffco School District’s plan to test a “cloud” storage system for student data has some parents concerned that vital information about their kids would be vulnerable to hackers and security breaches.
More than 35 concerned parents gathered at Normandy Elementary School on May 22 to voice their disapproval of the district’s plan to pilot “inBloom” — software developed by an Atlanta-based nonprofit that would centralize mountains of student data and store it off site.

Spring’s arrival brings new...

It is so nice to have some warm spring days, and now we are promised summer temperatures this week. Just to go out in my yard and see green fields and robins looking for worms, and hear green-tailed towhees and house wrens singing is a tonic for my winter-shriveled soul.

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