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A 6-year-old boy was injured Sunday evening when his bike collided with a vehicle on El Pinal Road in Evergreen, Trooper Nate Reid of the State Patrol reported.
A 2000 Ford Focus was heading north on El Pinal Road when the vehicle and bicycle collided, according to the report. The driver of the vehicle, Lawrence May of Evergreen, 26, has been charged with careless driving causing bodily injury in connection with the incident, Reid reported.

Residents will have an opportunity to learn about community and state happenings at a town hall meeting on Wednesday, May 15, at the Evergreen Lake House.

Sponsored by the Evergreen Pathfinders, the event will feature state Rep. Cheri Gerou of House District 25, County Administrator Ralph Schell and Jeffco Sheriff Ted Mink, among others.

Those who come to the meeting will have a chance to hear what key community leaders have to say, and also to ask questions, said Pathfinders leader Jim Gorman.

Bergen Meadow kindergartners learned about biology and life on a farm by watching eggs hatch into tiny chicks for the past few weeks.

The first chick pecked its way out of its egg on April 29, and the children were enthralled with the sight of new life.

Hatching eggs is an annual event at Bergen Meadow, and older students get excited as they relive the time when the eggs hatched in their kindergarten classrooms.

Peggy Miller, the school’s principal, even donned a chicken hat that morning to signal the event.

Joelle Broberg wants to be in the middle of education in Evergreen.

She will be this fall when she takes over as principal at Evergreen Middle School.

Broberg, who has spent the past four years as an assistant principal at Evergreen High School, says the new position is her dream job.

“I miss being at a middle school,” said Broberg, who had been a counselor at Deer Creek Middle School and a social studies teacher at Manning Option School before coming to EHS. She also taught at Green Mountain, Alameda and Wheat Ridge high schools.