FAIRBANKS — A friend once sent me the following quote, from the pages of “Hawk’s Rest,” a book by Gary Ferguson about a wilderness outpost in Yellowstone National Park: “Out of the million square m…
FAIRBANKS — The Borough Planning Commission plans to hear public testimony at 7 p.m. Tuesday on a request for a conditional use permit for a new private landfill in Salcha that is already in operat…
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One way that people judge the level of support for candidates is by the number of signs plastered in positions where they are easily visible to drivers and passengers in vehicles. I overhead a conv…
FAIRBANKS — Pvt. Dancer. Pvt. Parts. Lt. Lust. Wait, lieutenant who? With names like that, you’ve no doubt stepped into “Operation Bombshell,” a military-themed burlesque show courtesy of Naked Sta…
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Kids coming into any of the three public libraries this summer may enter a weekly drawing for prizes generously donated by local businesses. To enter the drawing, write a book review on forms available at the library. This program is open to all kids through teens. All our Summer Reading Programs are sponsored by the [...]
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The governor nixes state-run health exchange because it doesn’t make sense to spend Alaska’s dollars to set up an exchange when so much uncertainty exists about how to implement it and how to gain federal approval. However, the governor has no problem in giving billions of state dollars to the oil companies with no strings [...]
LAKE MINCHUMINA, Alaska – Well, another June has faded into memory. The heavy, sweet honeysuckle scent of chokecherry flowers no longer floats across the yard and the snowy fluff of aspen fuzz has …
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FAIRBANKS — Four adventurers are planning to row a 29-foot boat from Inuvik, Canada, to Provideniya, Russia, traveling off the Alaska coast. The “Arctic Row” project is expected to take a month wit…
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The third annual Alaska State Troopers Adventure Relay is to start in Soldotna July 13 and end in Fairbanks three days later, after the participants take a one-mile swim in Birch Lake. There a…
FAIRBANKS – The groundlings that will take stage this weekend at the Empress Theatre are not the penny stinkers of the 16th century Globe Theatre, who used to pay just a cent to attend Shakespeare’…
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