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Fairbanks school board gets update on state funding increase
FAIRBANKS — While the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District is optimistic that it will receive money from the state Legislature, no one is sure in what form it will come. That is what school...
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Fairbanks murder suspect faces new charges of assault, witness tampering
FAIRBANKS — A man awaiting trial in a Goldstream Valley murder case is facing new charges of assault and threatening a witness from the murder case. Sean Jeffers, 26, who already faced a first-deg...
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Legislation would give hunters a break for shooting their first illegal game in Alaska
FAIRBANKS — Rep. Tammie Wilson wants to give Alaska hunters a mulligan. A bill introduced by Wilson earlier this month would exempt first-time offenders who turn themselves in for illegally shooti...
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Mere minutes separate leaders in the Iron Dog
FAIRBANKS — It didn’t take long for Marc McKenna to put the 2 minute, 21 second lead he and teammate Dusty VanMeter have at the halfway point in the world’s longest, toughest snowmachine race into ...
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Rep. Don Young speaks to a full audience at the Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce luncheon Tuesday afternoon, February 21, 2012 at the Carlson Center. Eric Engman/News-Miner
Rep. Don Young speaks to a full audience at the Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce luncheon Tuesday afternoon, February 21, 2012 at the Carlson Center. Eric Engman/News-Miner
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Rep. Don Young talks bypass mail at Chamber luncheon
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FAIRBANKS — Rep. Don Young is certain a controversial bill that would end the bypass mail program in Alaska lacks support on Capitol Hill and will fail, but that doesn’t stop him from being frustra...
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'Jorgy' Jorgensen to share tales of aviation at Friday banquet by dermotcole
Feb 21, 2012 | 4 4 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
 The local chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association is hosting its annual banquet Friday at Pike's Waterfront Lodge, with veteran pilot "Jorgy' Jorgensen as the guest speaker. Born in 1927 ...

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Erik Estrada "CHiPs" actor Estrada makes Alaska cameo this week by FDNMfeatures
Feb 20, 2012 | 6 6 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
  Don’t be confused if you think you see 1970s TV star Erik Estrada patronizing Fairbanks area businesses Thursday — you won’t be hallucinating. The actor, best known for his role as Frank “Ponch” ...

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Thomas, Paskvan file bill to build gasline from Cook Inlet to Fairbanks by FDNMstaff
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 —Posted by Matt Buxton, staff writer With plenty of studies and competing ideas floating around on the best ways to deliver clean-burning natural gas to more Alaskans, Fairbanks Sens. Joe Thoma...

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Peony business blooms in Alaska
FAIRBANKS — Who would have guessed cut flowers would be Alaska’s up and coming agricultural crop? Of all flowers to sell from Alaska’s fields, would you have guessed peonies? Peonies have large bl...
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UAF counselor in Bethel makes Sports Illustrated by TimMowry_FDNM
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 Jen Peeks, a 31-year-old mental health counselor for the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Kuskokwim Campus in Bethel, was featured in Sports Illustrated’s “Faces in the Crowd” last week for winning...

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    Bill Stevens of the Athabaskan Fiddlers performs while students dance to the music at Denali Elementary School during the final performance of the Fiddlers in Residence program Friday. The students practiced for a week before showing their dance to their teachers, peers and parents.
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    YQ2012—Finish
    Brent Sass gives his dog a kiss at the Whitehorse, Yukon, finish chute Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. Sass, 32, of Eureka, Alaska, finished the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race in fifth place. Suzanna Caldwell/News-Miner
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