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  • Fire district mail-in ballots ready for early birds

    Although the main event is a polling-place election on May 6, mail-in ballots for this year’s election of the board of directors of the Evergreen Fire Protection District are available beginning this week.

    Mailing in a ballot as opposed to waiting until Election Day is a good way to avoid the possibility of long lines at the polling places.

    Registered voters who wish to obtain a mail-in ballot must first obtain a request form by calling the district offices at 303-674-3145 or by visiting the headquarters in person at 1802 Bergen Parkway.

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  • Teachers cite overload, but Stevenson rejects 'timeout'

    Jeffco teachers have called for a “timeout” on new programs for one school year in a resolution adopted April 4 by 155 members of the Representative Council of the Jefferson County Education Association.

    “Teachers are overloaded with well-meaning but counterproductive district mandates that are getting in the way of our efforts to effectively plan and teach,” JCEA President Nancy Henderson says in a statement.

    The resolution asks the school district to “focus its resources” on completing the curriculum alignment project.

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  • Library reopens after water main break

    The Evergreen Library reopened on Tuesday morning after being closed all day Monday, April 14, because of a broken water main beneath the parking lot.

    About 7:30 a.m. Monday, a delivery driver noticed water furiously boiling up from the pavement through an in-line main valve about 100 feet from the library’s main entrance.

    “It was spraying up about 6 inches and washing down the parking lot into the creek,” said grounds supervisor Al Santangelo. “I’ve been here 14 years, and I’ve never seen anything like this here before.”

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  • Library extra quiet following water main break

    The Evergreen Library remained closed all day Monday, April 14, as workers labored to repair a broken water main beneath the parking lot.

    About 7:30 a.m., a delivery driver noticed water furiously boiling up from the pavement through an in-line main valve about 100 feet from the library’s main entrance.

    “It was spraying up about 6 inches and washing down the parking lot into the creek,” said grounds supervisor Al Santangelo. “I’ve been here 14 years, and I’ve never seen anything like this here before.”

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  • Life Care resident celebrates a century plus two

    In 1906, Bull Moose President Teddy Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating an end to the bloody Russo-Japanese war. A major earthquake and fire leveled 75 percent of San Francisco. There was no such thing as canned beer, the average American wage was 22 cents an hour, sugar cost 4 cents a pound, there were 45 stars on Old Glory, and 203 murders were reported nationwide. And, on April 6, 1906, in the small Pennsylvania coal-mining town of Carbondale, Isobel Bruning was born.

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  • Fire board candidates state their cases

    At its regular meeting at El Rancho on April 4, the Rotary Club of Evergreen served up laughter, good fellowship and a chance to hear five candidates for the Evergreen Fire Protection District board speak their piece.

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  • TENAS nature center aims for Earth Day debut

    More than a dozen years of planning, fund-raising and negotiating paid off last week as The Evergreen Naturalists Audubon Society officially got comfy in the Old Warming Hut at Evergreen Lake.

    “We’re just so pleased to get going on the nature center,” says TENAS vice president Peggy Durham. “It’s been a dream of ours for a long time.”

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  • Ice Melt Barrel makes weekend splashdown

    It withstood biting winds and subzero temperatures, remained steadfast in the face of two vicious attacks, but, alas, had no defense against the gentle kiss of spring. Last weekend, the Mountain Foothills Rotary Ice Melt Barrel went maritime.

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  • 3 injured in Parkway crash

    A dreadful Sunday afternoon crash on Evergreen Parkway sent three area residents to the hospital and shut down traffic through Bergen Park.

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  • Deep snowpacks promise ample water supplies

    Although March’s warm, dry weather put a dent in statewide snowpack levels, Colorado’s spring runoff prospects are still looking up.

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